If you have created a commercial or private plugin or theme and want to provide automatic updates for your product a number of solutions are available to you. With so many different avenues, which one is best for your project? Code your own updater There are a few guides out there that show you how to …
How to recover a lost or disappeared application window (Windows tip)
So this is an issue I have from time to time and it had me dumbfounded. I would lose a handful of windows of programs I had open and running. The usual trick to retrieving lost windows, or windows that have gone ‘off’ screen is to try one of these: hit alt + tab, click …
Autoresize for wp_editor (the TinyMCE editor) in WordPress 4.0+
A lovely feature finding its way into the default post editor for WordPress is autoresizing. This means that you no longer have to scroll up and down inside the editor, it will expand to fit your content automatically removing the scrollbars. It is even better now that the toolbar will always stay in view. If …
The Many Ways David Thorpe Is Wrong About Lebron
This is for sure one the best stories in the 2 decades that I have been an NBA fan. In one of the most crazy basketball off-seasons ever and leading up to the announcement that Lebron James is returning to Cleveland, some of the most respected media members got it wrong. None surprised me more …
An Exploration Of Website Layout Patterns
A blog commenter I came across recently was praising the merits of sticking to the tried and tested layout of a header, title, post content with a sidebar on the left or right and a footer at the bottom. It was a commentary on the complex layout options found in bulky commercial themes and the …
A quick & dirty fix for the devious appearance of nbsp; (non-breaking spaces) in TinyMce editor
Sometimes when pasting content into WordPress’ native tinymce editor, non-breaking space characters appear in the output where there should be spaces. You can verify this is this issue by inspecting the source code in your browser’s dev tools. As a result text may break outside of its container and give a disastrous look. When troubleshooting …
Why hiding the publishing date from your posts is bad
If you’re doing research into a topic, one of the most important guides is understanding when resources were published and last updated. I’ve been coming across a lot of theme designs where the author has chosen to hide the post date. It makes efficient research extremely hard. Knowing when a post was first published and …
WordPress In 2014, Predictions and Frictions
January is always a good time to think forward and I thought I’d put down some thoughts around where I think the WordPress’s products space might be headed. What makes my particular take interesting? Well, I’ve think I’ve started to pick up on a few things that haven’t been talked about too much. Mobile It …
Time Tracking and Application Usage Trackers
I was looking at the current state of the market for tools that let you analyze how you’re tracking your time while at your workstation/computer. I’m not talking about general purpose timers, but specifically tools that monitor how long you’re using certain applications and websites in order to build an automated picture of how time …
Why I Don’t Like Child Themes [WordPress]
When working with WordPress themes, child themes are the promoted way of making customizations to a theme. The logic is pretty simple on paper, the child theme inherits all the functions and styles of the parent theme, but you are now able to overwrite anything you like with your own CSS and add your own template …