Pinging
The Wordpress Codex keeps an list of update services, and DailyBlogTips.com has an extensive ping list posted as well. Don't know what a ping is in this context? Wikipedia defines it best:
December 5, 2008
Wordpress garbage code: MS Word is BAD.
And not in a good way. If your blog looked just fine until you published that last post, if your blog post suddenly makes looks weird and the blog no longer lays out properly, if you suddenly find that you made the background of your post area dissapear, then you probably ...
December 5, 2008
Paginate
i am still trying to figure out how to make a post paginate. it didn't work properly in wp 2.5 or maybe i'm just an idiot. hence the name of this blog. http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_link_pages more information to come.
December 5, 2008
what to do when IE8 is breaking everything
Take a XANAX. And reconsider why the theme is breaking. the latest IE 8 beta release is as close to CSS compliant as possible. I have had less problems making IE * look right than I ever had with IE 5.5 and IE 6. As I was struggling to make a site browser ...
December 5, 2008
A Long List Of Free (and almost free) Stuff
This is part of my endless list of free stuff from the web. Believe it or not, most of the graphics offered on the sites listed below are free. HOWEVER they are all offered under different licensing agreements- some require a link back to the designer's website, some required copyright credits, ...
December 4, 2008
Truncating Headlines & Posts Titles
i love the idea of this and i tried to apply it to the latest version of the digitalapplejuice.com theme but i couldn't make it work and i was in a time crunch. will get back to it later. http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=544531
November 18, 2008
Editing Feedburner Emails
Follow these instructions to personalize emails sent to people who sign up to your feedburner feed you have to log in to feedburner account then, go to "my feeds"
November 17, 2008
Truncating Excerpts Dynamically
i couldn't make this work- may have to do with $recent = new WP_Query("cat=27&showposts=1"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post() i wonder if i replace that with <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> hmmm... i emailed the author and asked where he placed the code within the loop. he said it should work just about ...
November 1, 2008
IE CSS Problem Solving
The most common IE problem is: Layouts look different. Columns are wider or narrower between browsers or move down the page. this is usually caused by the content being larger than the space alloted for that div- resize the div or the content. specific info how to fix this: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/expandingboxbug.html
August 20, 2008
php the_excerpt
Displays the post excerpt in in the post editor's optional excerpt field followed by "..."- unless followed by additional code, will NOT include a "Read More" link.
August 17, 2008
