Month: October 2013

How to backup and restore your WordPress site with Plesk

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In this podcast I’ll show you how to backup and restore your website with Plesk 11.5. Backup and Restore in Plesk can be very easy and straightforward – and it’s fantastic when it works. There are cases though when it does not, so here are few things to keep in mind. Automatic backups may fill … Read more

How to combine DOM elements in jQuery

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Sometimes you want to add your own DOM element to an existing class or ID. For example, maybe you’d like to insert something like a header advert into an existing theme without having to hack core files. jQuery makes this possible. You can either add your own element to the beginning or the end of … Read more

How to use your own random header images in TwentyThirteen

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I really wanted to use the new WordPress TwentyThirteen theme over on my other site http://www.versluis.com. But I didn’t like the idea of using the default header images.

Since my previous theme had random header images, I thought it would be great to tap into the now built-in function and prepare a child theme that overrides those existing header images with my own. Here’s how I did it:

  • first we’ll create a child theme
  • then we’ll remove the existing header images
  • and add our own images

As a final touch I’ve tweaked the site title font and gave it a Photoshop-like outer glow, all in CSS. Let me talk you through it step by step.

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How to remove __MACOSX from zip archives

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Creating a ZIP file on your Mac is really easy: select a few files in Finder, right-click on those and select “Compress…”. It’s the equivalent of selecting “Send to ZIP Folder” under Windows. But Mac OSX does something rather bizarre when creating ZIP files: it adds several unnecessary, unwanted and un-called-for files starting with __MACOSX. … Read more

How to use a custom font in CSS

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Did you know that with CSS 3 you can load custom true type fonts and use them on your website? It’s relatively simple to do too. First you define a new font face with a URL to your file, then you call it just like you would call a pre-defined font. In this example I’m … Read more