Cars and Code – Not all that different
Customizing under the hood I was talking with one of my clients who is a mechanic, and he was telling me about how he used to do a lot of car customization and performance enhancing, and that he really...
View ArticleExploring and learning: Are you taking alternate routes?
When you first move to a new city, you aren’t familiar with the roads. You buy a map to help guide you, you ask Google how to get you from here to there most efficiently, and you stop and ask people...
View ArticleOptimizing a website for search: Google vs. Yahoo! and MSN
When I think SEO, I think of Google. Why? Is it because Google’s PageRank system determines better websites? Is it because Google’s advertising options are superior? It’s as simple as this: Google...
View ArticleBuilding a Real Estate Website in WordPress – Part 1
Introducing IDX+, the best WordPress real estate plugin I am designing and creating a real estate website with WordPress, and I’m going to be writing a few articles that detail how it’s done. This...
View ArticleSetting Far Futures Expires in ASP, Using ASP as CSS
I normally don’t work with ASP; I use PHP for my coding. Recently, I had to create a style.css.asp file, and I needed to find how to set a far-futures header in ASP. Here’s what I found in 5 minutes :...
View ArticleHow I fixed WP-DownloadManager 404 errors
I use LesterChan‘s Download Manager plugin, and it’s great. Good interface, simple purpose. I recently found out that after upgrading a client’s site to WP 2.5, WP-DownloadManager was no longer...
View ArticleGet medium image size in WordPress
This is for everyone who’s been trying to find out how to get the medium image size of a post attachment in WordPress: You’ve got to send the function the ID you’re trying to get the medium images for....
View ArticleHow to Tell if Your WordPress Widget is Active
Also, How to Check Plugin Status Ever wonder if your widget is activated on an external site? Here’s how to find out. When you register a sidebar widget, you use code like this:...
View ArticleHow to Display a Random Testimonial or Post in WordPress
Set up a testimonials category — no need for a plugin. There are a couple of plugins designed specifically for testimonials, but I didn’t want to use them; they use their own databases, and don’t keep...
View ArticleStrip Extra ImageScaler Attribute from Plugin-Generated Code
I am using the ImageScaler plugin for WordPress on a project, and I like what it does, but it adds a non-standards-compliant attribute to images, such as: <img class=""...
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