WordPress failing to email me about new blog comments
Did you know that WordPress sends you emails when you get a new blog comment? I didn’t – because it has never worked for me. But once I knew it was supposed to email me I looked into it and found a fix. Setup: My setup is running WordPress.org on a Ubuntu 9.04 box called […]
WordPress spelling auto-correction now fixed
In WordPress 3.0, my WordPress logo image (on the left) broke. So I opened a bug and six weeks and 100 bug comments later, I have upgraded to 3.01 and it is working again. Thanks guys! The reason why the logo image was broken was quite interesting(?)… In v3.0 WordPress automatically started auto-correcting Wordpress to […]
WordPress image gallery plugin
When I was building the property gallery for greekislandpropertyfinders I wanted to use a fancy javascript image gallery like Galleria, however I came across a problem with Galleria in that it couldn’t display more than one gallery on any page. It’s open-source so I used the source code to help write my own version and […]
WordPress Tag Cloud – How to cap the font size
On the Bitvolution WordPress theme, the sidebar is quite small (only 220px) and the default WordPress tag cloud widget was producing tags that were clipped in a ugly manner. By default, the WordPress tag cloud widget has a maximum font size of 22px so I was looking for a way to reduce it. Note: If […]
Elastic WordPress Plugin
Today, I found out about a WordPress plugin called Elastic (http://elastictheme.org/, download link) which is a WYSIWYG theme editor for WordPress. It looks like a very promising technology to make it easier to develop WordPress themes. I’m interested in re-useable modules so, if I develop something interesting for one client, I can re-use the same […]
How to have a hidden wordpress page
A typical use case for a hidden page might be so you can store your website licensing agreement or image attribution links without having it explicitly in the main navigation links – most folk link to their licensing agreement in the footer. If you want to have a page on your self-hosted WordPress website that […]
Supporting image alignment in your WordPress theme
If you are making a WordPress theme you owe it to the user of your theme to make sure image alignment works as expected. Most of the Visual Editor formatting buttons use inline CSS which won’t be affected by the theme but this is not the case with the alignment buttons in pages/posts when applied […]
