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
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
Fantastic CSS Border Radius generator for all browsers by @jacob Bijani
Super awesome code generator for WordPress Developers by Rami Yushuvaev
Oftentimes people install WordPress in a subdirectory of the main website. One-click installers like to do this. Say your domain is http://example.com, but WordPress lives in http://example.com/wordpress. By default this means that people will have to visit your website at the latter URL.
But what if you want your URL to be http://example.com, without that /wordpress at the end?
No problem I say – let me talk you through it. It may sound scary, but that’s just because we have to do some tweaks to files we don’t normally touch.
When you’re writing a Child Theme you can easily add your own functions to a custom functions.php file. But sometimes you want to replace or remove a function that the original theme provides. Because the Child Theme’s functions.php file is loaded BEFORE the parent’s file, you can’t just define the same function again because it would be … Read more
To get the directory of the current theme (or child theme) you can use get_stylesheet_directory_uri(). Here’s how to use it. Let’s assume that your WordPress installation lives in http://demo.com, and that your theme is located in a folder named “my-super-theme”. We can assume then that the full URL that points at http://demo.com/wp-content/themes/my-super-theme/ The URL will … Read more
I tested one of my plugins yesterday and was shocked to see a nasty error message: What was going on? I could have sworn this worked fine last time I tried! Then I remembered that I changed my PHP Version in MAMP, from 5.5.3 back to 5.2.17. And exactly therein lies the problem, because the … Read more
