Copy this code into your header and modify it to represent wherever the images are located:

<style type="text/css">
#randomimage { background:url(http://yourdomain.com/imagesfolder/randomimage<?php echo (rand()%10); ?>.jpg); }
</style>

Copy this code into your page where you want the images to show up:

<div id="randomimage"></div>

Copy this into your CSS and modify accordingly:

#randomimage {
}

Now, you can change the name of the div and you can also put the images wherever you want, just make sure you change the path so that they match.

One very important thing about this code is that you need to have 10 images.  Also, the images need to be named very specifically.

Using this code, the images have to be named: randomimage0.jpg, randomimage1.jpg… and continuing up through randomimage9.jpg.  If you do not have an image representing this, then nothing will show up on your page.

While not necessarily the best php image randomizer I’ve seen, it’s quick and will get the job done.

Here is a really great theme from regis that you can download from the new WP Theme repository.

I really liked the simple clean design, but I was upset to find that the author hard-coded an “About my blog” mini-post with a picture (of the author) into the themes sidebar. I thought it would be much better if the author would have pulled some text from the default WP “About” page.

<?php
    query_posts('pagename=about');
    if (have_posts()) :  while (have_posts()) : the_post();
?>
        <li class="widget">
       <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
       <p><?php the_content('<p><b>Continue Reading &amp;amp;raquo;</b>< p>'); ?></p>
        </li>
<?php
    endwhile; else : ?><?php endif;
?>

All you have to do is replace the authors hard-coded “about the blog” post with the above code. Of course, it would be better if the theme came shipped this way–as it such a great theme that many none-coders would use. But I do understand why the author would want to keep their own personal touch.

You can download the theme from the authors site: http://wnw.blogwarhammer.net/themes/disciple/
Or, from the WP Theme repository: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/disciple

<?php $my_t=getdate(date("U")); print("$my_t[weekday], $my_t[month] $my_t[mday], $my_t[year]"); ?>

The variables being used are weekday, month, numeric date and year. You can remove any of these depending on what you want the output to be.

For example:

ColdFusion Redirect:

<.cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved permanently">
<.cfheader name="Location" value="http://www.new-url.com">

PHP Redirect:

Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );

ASP Redirect:

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location","http://www.new-url.com/"
%>

JSP (Java) Redirect:

<%
response.setStatus(301);
response.setHeader( "Location", "http://www.new-url.com/" );
response.setHeader( "Connection", "close" );
%>

CGI PERL Redirect:

$q = new CGI;
print $q->redirect("http://www.new-url.com/");

Ruby on Rails Redirect:

def old_action
headers["Status"] = "301 Moved Permanently"
redirect_to "http://www.new-url.com/"
end

And if you have CPanel, Plesk, or some other web-based domain-management system they probably have a way for you to tap directly into Apache and make that change in a nice GUI.

If some inexplicatble reason you are compelled to use Meta Redirects, please use the techniques found here so that Google and your browser can make sense of what’s going on:

http://itscalledwebdesign.com/meta-redirect/

Some external links:

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection

1. Login
2. Navigate to plugins and select edit on the Lightbox plugin
3. At the bottom of the code change wp_head to wp_footer
4. Click update, and you are done.

…that’s what she said.

Get Recent Posts (5)

<h2>Recent Posts</h2>
   <ul>
     <?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=5'); ?>
   </ul>

Within that file place the following code at the top

<?php
/*
Template Name: specialpage
*/
?>

Now you can continue with your page.  Use the default wordpress codes for getting your header, sidebar and footer and do whatever you want in between.  I usually just copy and paste all the code from the default page.php and then modify it accordingly.

When editing a page, select Page Templates in the bottom options. If you’ve done this correctly, you will see specialpage as an option. Select it for whichever pages you desire and those pages will follow that template.

This is going to be set up using a <div> labeled “nav”.  You can change it, but make sure you change it acrossed the board, otherwise it won’t work.

In your header, place the following code -

<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://yourdomain.com/page1">Page 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://yourdomain.com/page2">Page 2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://yourdomain.com/page3">Page 3</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Now these links are not dynamic, you will have to add or subtract the pages that you want listed.

If you want them dynamic, in WordPress simply use this -

<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?></li>
</ul>
</div>

My only issue with doing this, is that it will include all your WordPress pages, which you may not want.  You can still use this, but you will need to change the php code to -

  <?php wp_list_pages('exclude=17,38' ); ?>

with the exclude numbers representing the pages that you want excluded.  More examples of how to change how this list works can be found in the WordPress Codex HERE.

Now for the CSS.

Copy the following code into your CSS file -

#nav	{
	width: 475px;
	height: 37px;
	margin: 0 auto;
	padding: 0;
	font-size: 14px;
	position: relative;
	left: 190px;
	z-index: 99;
	color: #fff;
	line-height: 33px;
}

#nav ul {
	list-style:  none;
	margin: 0;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	text-align: center;
}

#nav li	{
	list-style:  none;
	float: left;
	padding: 0 4px;
	background: none;
}

#nav a {
	display: block;
	font: bold 0.9em Arial, san-serif;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	color: #fff;
	text-align: center;
	line-height: 37px;
	vertical-align: middle;
}

#nav a:hover {
	line-height: 37px;
	vertical-align: middle;
	color: #000;
	text-decoration: none !important;
}

This code is set up so that it will be a navigation bar that is 475px wide and 37px tall.  The text link will be white (#fff) and then change to black (#000) when hovered.  There is no underline, since text-decoration on the a:hover is set to none.  You can change this to underline or any other hover variable you prefer.  The text in this case is also all caps due to the “text-transform: uppercase;”.  You can remove that line if you want the text to appear as written.

To create more or less space between the words, simply increase or decrease the second number in the nav li padding.  Currently, each <li> has a 4px padding on both the left and the right sides.  Note, if you increase this padding much, or have more than a couple links, you will need to increase the width of the nav div.  Otherwise, the links will drop down onto a second line.

Place this code in your functions.php -

add_action( ‘init’, ‘mf_text_based_image_links’ );

function mf_text_based_image_links() {

if ( function_exists( ‘mf_previous_image_link’ ) === false ) {
function mf_previous_image_link( $link_text=’Previous Image’ ) {
if ( $l = mf_adjacent_image_link( $link_text, true ) )
print $l;
else
print ‘<span class=”inactive”>’ . $link_text . ‘</span>’;
}
}

if ( function_exists( ‘mf_next_image_link’ ) === false ) {
function mf_next_image_link( $link_text=’Next Image’ ) {
if ( $l = mf_adjacent_image_link( $link_text, false ) )
print $l;
else
print ‘<span class=”inactive”>’ . $link_text . ‘</span>’;
}
}

if ( function_exists( ‘mf_adjacent_image_link’ ) === false ) {
function mf_adjacent_image_link( $link_text, $prev = true ) {
global $post;
$post = get_post($post);
$attachments = array_values(get_children( array(‘post_parent’ => $post->post_parent, ‘post_status’ => ‘inherit’, ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘image’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order ID’) ));

foreach ( $attachments as $k => $attachment )
if ( $attachment->ID == $post->ID )
break;

$k = $prev ? $k – 1 : $k + 1;
if ( isset($attachments[$k]) )
return ‘<a href=”‘ . get_attachment_link( $attachments[$k]->ID ) . ‘”>’ . $link_text . ‘</a>’;
else
return false;
}
}
}

Then place this code in your image.php file where you want the navigation to appear -

<h2><small><?php mf_previous_image_link( ‘&laquo; Previous Photo’ ) ?></small> -
<a href=”<?php echo get_permalink($post->post_parent); ?>” rev=”attachment”><?php echo get_the_title($post->post_parent); ?></a> -
<small><?php mf_next_image_link( ‘Next Photo &raquo;’ ) ?></small></h2>

You can of course change the Previous Photo and Next Photo to whatever you prefer.