Try a professional look on your WordPress blog
Classy, modest. A lightweight WordPress HTML5 theme geared towards portfolio-based blogging, with responsive design for mobile to large displays.
How to embed a youtube video to start play at a specific time in WordPress
After some fiddling and frustration in trying to embed a Youtube video to play at a specific time with the WordPress oEmbed shortcode, I feel that it’s worth showing what worked for me.
For this format you put the video code after the /v/ and put your start time as a query parameter ‘start’ in seconds.… Read the rest
Stop web spam – trap pesky spambots with a honeypot
Make no mistake; if you have a web form or comment system on your site, the spambots WILL find you. They will pack the form fields with as much rubbish as they can pump out and try to send it on to you, the site owner.… Read the rest
wp_list_pages() not setting .current_page_item classes on custom post types
A rather frustrating bug that I became aware of when generating navigational menus for custom post types using wp_list_pages(). The list entries aren’t decorated with useful classes denoting the current item, the parent item, and ancestor(s).
Read about the issue here.… Read the rest
How to make a flowing CSS gallery layout
This guide will show you how you might create a gallery layout with “cards” of fixed widths and variable height.
Yoast’s Google Analytics for WordPress plugin rewrites links bug
So Yoast’s Google Analytics for WordPress plugin has a somewhat annoying “bug”, or oversight rather , where it rewrites relative link URLS to full URLs, including anchors. For example, <a href=”#anchor”> becomes <a href=”http://planetjon.ca/blah/#anchor”>. There is more information about this on the wordpress forums.… Read the rest
How to stop WordPress old url redirecting to new url
In WordPress, when you make a page or post you give it a title and a url (slug). If you decide to change the url later, WordPress has this convenient feature of remembering the old one and redirecting to the new url so that your links aren’t broken.… Read the rest
Prioritize Hooks – my first WordPress plugin
Prioritize Hooks is a WordPress plugin which allows the overriding of the priority of various filters and actions hooked by plugins and themes.
How to fully uninstall qTranslate
Fully uninstall qTranslate by undoing the content mangling!
Late static binding workaround prior to PHP 5.3
A workaround for binding to the intended static scope without using the static:: operator introduced in PHP 5.3.
The Issue
When calling a parent method, we often want dynamic binding to occur so that any method calls and member references made in this parent method will be looked up starting in the true class of the object being invoked and then in the inheritance tree.… Read the rest
How to filter empty values from a PHP array the easy way
Cutting straight to the point, here’s a quick way with PHP for removing empty values from an array and shifting the indices appropriately. Nothing too fancy but I found it useful at work and figure that I might as well share the tip.… Read the rest
Flash doomed as an internet technology
With the trend shifting from browser plugins to HTML, is Flash doomed as an internet technology?