Note: This site might seem inactive… That’s because it is. Don’t worry though, I’m still coding webpages and stuff! If you’re interested, I suggest you get a translator and head over to Qiwi; or you could just check the latest site we’ve been working on: Apotheek Goethals – Debrabandere. Enjoy!
Topics: WordPress
Using WordPress as a blogroll manager (11)
After blo.gs started to temporarily
disable their search feature, I got pissed. It’s been months since the last time I was able to add a site to my own feckin’ blogroll. That’s right, I was using a WP plugin to fetch my links from the rather slow blo.gs server every hour or so and cache the list locally. Read more →
WordPress plugin: Dunstan’s tag transformations (9)
It’s a well-known fact that Dunstan’s tag transformations move back and forth rock. Ever since that article was published, I’ve been using the code insertion script for erm… inserting code snippets in my posts. At first, I implemented the PHP functions by simply hacking the WordPress core files. Obviously — WP “Mingus” 1.2 didn’t have much of a plugin API. Those days are over now. Read more →
WordPress: How to enable HTML in post titles (16)
WordPress doesn’t allow you to embed HTML in your posts’s titles. In fact, this is not a WordPress problem, it’s more a lack of usability in Kubrick, the default WP theme. So, unless you’re following Anne’s A header should not be a link, stupid! logic, there is no way to embed code in your posts’s titles without breaking the title attributes of a certain amount of links, thus making your pages invalid. Read more →
Absolute relative links (30)
One of the features that aren’t (yet) implemented into WordPress, is the use of relative links. A relative link is a link to a page or a file which is located on the same site the page containing the link is on. *gasp* For example, if I want to link to http://mathiasbynens.be/portal from this page, there’s no need to use <a href="http://mathiasbynens.be/portal"> — <a href="/portal"> would work just as well, and even saves us a couple of bytes. It would take quite some time to get that working in WP; there would have to be a “Relative Blog Address” variable, which then would be used in all cases (permalink generation et al) except for syndication feeds and for trackbacking other people’s posts. Read more →
On Technorati Tags (8)
While everybody else is blogging about Google’s newest rel="nofollow" spam prevention shitbit, I’d like to talk to you about that other relatively new thing on the web: Technorati Tags.
Inspired by the tagging system Flickr and del.icio.us are using, the Technorati team came up with the idea of having the same taggability for weblogs. Read more →
Colour Scheme Swapper (6)
Once again, there have been made some changes to the sidebar. What’s new? Well, this time, it’s the Colour Scheme Swapper! This new feature is powered by a slightly modified version of Alex’s fantastic WordPress Style Switcher Plugin. Read more →
Blogmarks (9)
I made some small and some less small changes to this site. There’s a brand new section to it, too: the blogmarks. wp–recent–links rocks. Read more →
Texturizing and such (16)
I’ve always refused to follow the US English typography style on this site.
That means that periods and commas go inside the end quotation mark — even when it doesn’t make sense to do so.I want my site to make sense. So I started looking at WP’s
wptexturize() function (© Matt). As you can read here, I’ve been thinking about doing that for a while now. Read more →
WordPress: Redesigning the comment form (15)
Markku has been doing some redesigning. Have a look: there’s a brand new navigation bar, the sidebar has changed (there are now seven of us!)… But before those rather big changes, he messed around with the comment form. The new things are the mini quicktags, a resizable textarea (© Dunstan) and *drumroll* a superdooper new feature: the comment textarea now comes before all other fields if there’s a cookie saying you already posted a comment before! How cool is that? I was pretty jealous actually… So I asked him how the hell he managed to do that cookie thing. He (Markku is The Friendliness Itself) sent me his PHP code. I certainly w00ted, but as I glared longer and longer at the code, I started to find it a bit too long. (The complete form was coded twice.) Here’s how I did it. Read more →
Newities (1)
Notice anything new? Read more →