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Yesterday, I finished custom coding an idTabs Box to the Geometric Wootheme used here on Ricochehost.com. Now this is nothing new, but it was a bit tricky to figure out how to get in there. Probably the most trying task was getting the CSS right, but I think I got it. I now need to create some options in the admin area so that I can enter additional Social Sites and other info.

I also had some JQuery conflicts with MooTools when using Slimbox, but since I upgraded to Slimbox2, everything has been smooth sailing. Perhaps there is something better, but for now idTabs is pretty cool and the possibilities are endless. Today I created idTabs boxes for all the other sites deployed by Ricochehost.

The cool thing about the idTabs box setup is that each tab is can be a PHP file and you can really do some neat things by adding additional code. It will also be cool to tie that PHP code into the admin panel and have the options updated on the fly. I’m almost done with that. If you are into tabs, do give idTabs a look.

JQuery Tabs Box Addition

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The theme I use here on Ricochehost is called Geometric by WooThemes. One of the features tied to the Portfolio section was the use of a Wordpress called Slimbox. The version I installed originally was 1.3 that used MooTools v1.2dev according the JS file. While custom coding the idTabs sidebox on Ricochehost, I noticed that MooTools was causing idTabs to not work. Thus I had a conflict going on between MooTools and JQuery.

Well, after searching around the internet I discovered an variation of the Slimbox plugin called Slimbox2 that uses JQuery. However, there was no Wordpress plugin. However, after reading the notes on the download site, I found that you simply had to copy over the existing Slimbox files and have it point to the JQuery JS library. After getting Slimbox2 up and running on Wordpress 2.8 I discovered that “presto”, my idTabs box worked like a charm along with the Portfolio feature. Slimbox2 also has some customization features which I plan to check out as well to make the user experience more intuitive. Right now I’m missing a “close” button and need to add that on there. Stay tuned for additional info about the Slimbox2 for Wordpress.

Note that after copying my files over the original Slimbox and adjusting the JQuery path and plugin info, I was able to effectively have a plugin that I could transfer across multiple installations. Works well.

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