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WordPress Plugin: Category Templates
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
NOTICE: Support for this plugin has been stopped indefinitely. I simply don’t have the time to devote to working on updates and bug fixes. If you’re interested in adopting this plugin to continue development/support, contact me. Category Templates is a WordPress plugin that lets you define different templates for both categories and individual posts through [...]
SQL Buddy Review
Monday, July 20th, 2009
phpMyAdmin is a great tool for managing your databases. But why does it have to work and look a tank? I understand it would rather be more functional that up to date with current website trends. But what about those of us who are out of the stone age and have moved on from Internet [...]
WordPress Descendant of Category
Friday, July 17th, 2009
WordPress’s default category structure is nice, but it lacks one major function: descendant category detection. The normal WordPress function in_category() only returns true if the current post is in the specified category, not if it’s a descendant. This can be especially frustrating when creating different templates for different categories. You don’t want to have to [...]
Dropbox, it’s a good thing…
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Dropbox is a handy little tool for anyone who works with more than one computer, or has the need to deliver or receive files from others. What is Dropbox? To put it simply, Dropbox is a provider of online storage space. But to leave it simply at that would be a gross understatement. Dropbox has [...]
hasLayout
Monday, July 13th, 2009
What is hasLayout? Because Internet Explorer is so old (as it was one of the first browsers available), it hasn’t had the luxury of starting anew as current browser do. So as time went by, Microsoft began adapting new engines to make use of CSS. Seems fine… However, CSS changes the fundamental assumption that Internet [...]
Cross Browser Inline-block
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Inline-block is a great state to have an element’s display set at. It gives you the best of both inline and block elements: the ability to add padding, margins, while remaining inline with content around it. So why is it so badly supported? Firefox 3+, Safari and Opera have no problem with it, but what [...]
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
SEO – Search Engine Optimization – is a huge part of your website when it come to trafficking in the right visitors. The difference between an optimized and a non optimized site can mean thousands of hits. So what does it mean, and how do I do it? Search Engine Optimization is the process of [...]