Month: May 2014

How to fix JetPack 3.0 Sharing Icons in P2

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JetPack 3.0 was released yesterday and it had quite a facelift: a new menu structure, dozens of graphical tweaks and a new set of Social Icons for sharing your posts. Those work well out of the box in TwentyThirteen and TwentyFourteen – but not in P2. Here’s how we can fix the problem. First let … Read more

How to use Branches in Xcode

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In this video I will show you how to use the Git Branch feature in Xcode 5.1. Branches are helpful if you’re developing your app. You can isolate a “working” version, create a new branch and fiddle with new features that may destabilise your project. You can then commit your changes – working or not … Read more

How to change the width of an automatic oEmbed in WordPress

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wordpress-iconI was investigating an interring issue today: YouTube videos I was embedding on this very site did not fill the whole width of my theme. They were 500 pixels wide, and I know that P2 supports something a bit larger than that.

It didn’t really bother me, until I thought that embeds on my other site which is also using P2 look so much better. What was going on? What was the other site doing that this one wasn’t?

Turns out there are actually three different things to watch out for, and I’ll tell you about each one in a moment.

I remember vividly that there was an option under Settings – Media where you could set how wide and tall your auto embeds should be – but as of WordPress 3.5 this has been removed. If your website has been around for a while (like mine has) then these residual values may still be in the database and WordPress may still use them – as was the problem in my case.

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