Recently, a reader named Don asked about this theme’s accessibility (accesskey) jump menu located at the top of each page. Several people have commented that they like the way the jump menu “lights up” upon gaining focus. Whenever a user hovers their cursor over the region at the top of the page, all links in the jump menu change to a more visible color. Then, as the cursor moves over the various menu items, each jump link [...] • Read more »
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Go Back via JavaScript and PHP
Use this simple code as a button that will return users to the previous page: <form> <input type=”button” value=”Return to previous page” onClick=”javascript:history.go(-1)” /> </form> Here it is as a simple text link: <p> <a href=”javascript:history.go(-1)” title=”Return to the previous page”>« Go back</a> </p> You can make things easier by serving PHP and printing the link automatically. Here is the button link: echo “<form><input type=\”button\” value=\”Return to previous page\” onClick=\”javascript:history.go(-1)\”></form>”; And here is the PHP code to [...] • Read more »
Passing Quotation Marks via wp_link_pages
According to the WordPress Codex 1, it is possible to pass quotation marks via the parameters of the function, wp_link_pages(). This would enable users to assign a particular css class or id to the function output, thereby providing greater design and behavioral control over that particular object. But alas, as reported several times in the WordPress Codex 2, wp_link_pages() is unable to pass quotes without causing errors. To fix this, we open template-functions-post.php and find wp_link_pages(), which [...] • Read more »
Reversing WordPress Page Navigation Order
This article explains how to reverse the order of WordPress page navigation links. To reverse the default (backward) order of page navigation in WordPress, open the file template-functions-links.php (in WP 2.0) or link-template.php (in WP 2.1/2.2) and scroll down to the last function, posts_nav_link() 1. Next, find the last if statement and switch the order of the following two lines: previous_posts_link($prelabel); [ ignore this line ] next_posts_link($nxtlabel, $max_page); Next, within the first line of the same function [...] • Read more »
Title Attributes for WordPress Post Navigation
Improve accessibility by adding title attributes to your WordPress userspace. Note: This article applies specifically to WordPress 2.0.2, but may be generalized to any WP 2.0+ version. By default, WordPress navigation links omit the title attributes for both page and post views. Title attributes for links provide additional information that can improve the accessibility of your website. This is especially true when images or text symbols exclusively are used for navigation. To add title attributes to WordPress [...] • Read more »