Articles tagged with “notes”
- WordPress Tip: Careful with that Autosave, Eugene
- After upgrading WordPress from version 2.0.5 to 2.3.3, I did some experimenting with the “post autosave” feature. The autosave feature uses some crafty ajax to automagically save your post every 2 minutes (120 seconds by default). Below the post-editing field, you will notice a line of text that displays the time of the most recent autosave, similar to the following:...
- What is My WordPress Feed URL?
- For future reference, this article covers each of the many ways to access your WordPress-generated feeds. Several different URL formats are available for the various types of WordPress feeds — posts, comments, and categories — for both permalink and default URL structures. For each example, replace “http://domain.tld/” with the URL of your blog. Note: even though your blog’s main feed is ...
- Lessons Learned Concerning the Clearfix CSS Hack
- I use the CSS clearfix hack on nearly all of my sites. The clearfix hack — also known as the “Easy Clearing Hack” — is used to clear floated divisions (divs) without using structural markup. It is very effective in resolving layout issues and browser inconsistencies without the need to mix structure with presentation. Over the course of the ...
- WordPress Core Hacks Used at Perishable Press
- One of the necessary evils associated with creating a highly customized WordPress-powered site involves the inevitable necessity to hack the WordPress core. WordPress is built for mass-consumption and tends to cater to the largest audience possible, making it necessary to bend and poke around the corners to get WordPress to function in a more specific or specialized capacity.
Of course, there is a major downside to tweaking core WordPress files: upgrading. The overambitious WordPress peeps are constantly rolling ...
- Notes and Tips for Better Social Bookmarking
- For those of you still hiding your bookmarks within the dark confines of your browser’s “favorites” menu, may I suggest stepping into the “here and now” with a fresh new approach: social bookmarking. Hopefully, most of my readers are already familiar with the many wonders of managing and sharing your bookmarks online, but for those who may still be questioning the whole idea, allow me to expound briefly on several of the immediate benefits:
Universal access to ...
- CSS Throwdown: Preload Images without JavaScript
- Clean, easy, effective. You don’t need no stinking JavaScript to preload your images. Nope. Try some tasty CSS and (X)HTML instead! Here’s how.. (only two steps!)
Step 1 — Place this in your CSS file:
div#preloaded-images {
position: absolute;
overflow: hidden;
left: -9999px;
top: -9999px;
height: 1px;
width: 1px;
}
Step 2 — Place this at the bottom ...
- Computer Flashback: Windows 98 Run Commands
- [ Keywords: windows, 98se, 98, run, commands, command, dos, ms-dos, msconfig, regedit ]
Even with all the fancy-pants new features found in Windows XP and now Vista, Microsoft Windows 98 (Second Edition) remains our favorite Windows-flavored operating system. We love it so much, we still use it on one of our trusty laptops. Over the years, we have discovered several very useful functions available via ...
- Smooth Operators: Sharpen your Google Search Skills
- [ Keywords: Google, search, tricks, tips, hints, reference, cache, link, site, info, intitle, inurl ]
Coming soon to the World Wide Web: Everything. The perpetually evolving sum of human knowledge available online. Anywhere. Anytime. So, what are you looking for? Information concerning something, somewhere, about somebody.. You know it’s there somewhere. Sure, you could waste time by digging through that immense labyrinth of browser bookmarks, maybe eventually finding that one link that may or may not lead ...
- Search Engine Registration Notes
- In his excellent book, Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, Peter Kent explains that many search engines actually get their search results from one (or more) of the larger search engines, such as Google or The Open Directory Project. Therefore, the author concludes that it may not be necessary to spend endless hours registering with thousands of the smaller search sites. Rather, the author ...
- URL Character Codes
- URL’s frequently employ potentially conflicting characters such as question marks, ampersands, and pound signs. Fortunately, it is possible to encode such characters via their escaped hexadecimal ASCII representations. For example, we would write "?" as "%3F". Here are a few more URL character codes (case-insensitive):
%3E
# %23
% %25
{ %7B
} %7D
| %7C
\ %5C
^ %5E
~ %7E
[ %5B
] %5D
` %60
; %3B
/ %2F
? %3F
: ...
- Hide Content on Windows 98SE
- This brief tutorial on hiding content applies to Windows 95, 98, and 98SE. Although this method may be old hat or even irrelevant, I have found it useful on a number of occasions, and therefore found it worthwhile to include here for the sake of prosperity.
On Windows 98SE (and others), it is possible to create a folder that is both listed and inaccessible via the Windows file system. Using an old DOS trick involving an obscure character ...
- Embed QuickTime Notes Plus
- This post contains random notes for embedding QuickTime within web pages.
QuickTime Embed Attributes via CSS
(X)HTML Code for Embedding/Including QuickTime...
- Fun with the DOS Command Prompt
- Note: This article assumes a basic familiarity with the DOS command prompt, and is somewhat of a continuation of our previous article on DOS, Basic DOS Commands. Here, we are exploring a few of the more interesting commands available via the DOS command prompt. For a more complete reference please consult the Windows Help file (Windows XP) by entering
hh.exe ms-its:C:\WINDOWS\Help\ntcmds.chm::/ntcmds.htm
at the command line prompt (or via the Start > Run... dialogue box). For ...
- DOS Fundamentals
- A brief overview of essential DOS commands, characters, devices, and variables
Ahh, the fun I have at work while experimenting with the command line. I will be the first to admit that I understand very little of DOS, especially when considering the scope of its functional capacity. Nonetheless, I am taking the time to chronicle a few interesting DOScoveries here in this article, as well as in at least a couple of others (see related articles section at ...
- Industrial-Strength Spamless Email Links
- In our previous article on creating spamless email links via JavaScript, the presented method, although relatively simple to implement, is not the most effective solution available. Spambots, email harvesters, and other online scumbags relentlessly advance their scanning technology, perpetually rendering obsolete yesterday’s methods.
In the case of spamless email links created client-side via JavaScript, many spambots now are able to decipher certain email addresses hidden within the JavaScript code itself. Spambots scan ...
- Keep it Dark: Hiding and Filtering CSS
- Hiding and filtering CSS rules for specifically targeted browsers is often a foregone conclusion when it comes to cross-browser design considerations. Rather than dive into some lengthy dialogue concerning the myriad situations and implications of such design hackery, our current scheduling restraints behoove us to simply cut to the chase and dish the goods. Having said that, we now consider this post a perpetually evolving repository of CSS filters..
Hide CSS from IE3, IE4, NS4
This method employs JavaScript ...
- Embed External Content via iframe and div
- By using an within a , it is possible to include external web content in most any web document. This method serves as an excellent alternative to actual frames, which are not as flexible and definitely not as popular. Indeed, with CSS, the placement, sizing, and styling of div’s provides endless possibilities for embedding external or even internal web content into pages that would otherwise require the use of frames, Flash, or JavaScript. This method works ...
- Theme Edits for IE7
- This post is a working repository of code edits and other changes made to Perishable Press themes in order for them to function properly in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)..
Jupiter Theme
*:first-child+html div.comwrap {
overflow: visible;
}
Lithium Theme
*:first-child+html div.comwrap {
overflow: visible;
}
Casket Theme
Removed html selector from first ruleset.
- Basic DOS Commands
- DOS (Disk Operation System) is a tool which allows you to control the operation of the IBM PC. DOS is software which was written to control hardware. Here is a summary of some essential DOS commands.
Change Drive
To change the default drive indicated at the DOS prompt, type the letter of the drive followed by a colon (:). For example, to change the drive from "X" to "Y":
X:\> Y: [enter]
Change Directory
Use the CHDIR (CD) command to change the ...
- Offline Resource Library
- The Perishable Press Official Offline Resource Library (requires username & password)
- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Formats
- There are currently three formats for expressing date/time in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). All examples represent the date, "July 04, 2050". The time for all three formats is expressed as "hour:minutes:seconds".
Here is the preferred, standard format1 for the Internet. This format is defined by RFC 1123 (updated from RFC 822):
# RFC 1123 Standard GMT Format
Mon, 04 Jul 2050 07:07:07 GMT
The programming language C uses the ANSI standard format1 in its asctime():
# ANSI Standard GMT Format
Mon ...
- XHTML Document Header Resource
- This XHTML header tags resource is a work in progress, perpetually expanding and evolving as new information is obtained, explored, and integrated. Hopefully, you will find it useful in some way. Even better, perhaps you will share any complimentary or critical information concerning the contents of this article.
Table of Contents
Important Information
XML Declaration
The !DOCTYPE
The html tag
...
- HTML Frames Notes Plus
- If you think that nobody uses frames anymore, think again. I personally know of one person who threw down some tuf HTML frame action for a personal site. So, in the interest of prosperity, we are hereby establishing this post as our official dumping ground for all HTML frame-related garbage.
Break your pages out of someone else’s frames
We begin our journey with a totally sick JavaScript method for breaking pages out of the illegitimate frames of some ineffectually ...
- CSS Code Repository
- Here is our online (i.e., public) repository of interesting, mysterious, and/or perhaps even useful CSS code:
Perishable Press CSS Code Repository [downloads ]
- Accessibility Notes Plus
- Just a few useful accessibility notes..
Add accesskey attributes to important list items, content areas, and any other key areas of the document.
Use alphanumeric characters as accesskey values, as in this example:
hhome
mmenu
ssearch
When an accesskey attribute is present within a link tag, pressing alt+letter on the keyboard is equivalent to double-clicking that link. Generally speaking, the presence of ...
- Spamless Email Address via JavaScript
- Let’s face it, spam sucks. Give spammers the figurative finger by using this nifty bit of JavaScript to hide your email address from the harvesters. Here is an easy “copy-&-paste” snippet for including a spam-proof email address in your web pages. Although there are a million ways of doing this, I am posting this for the record (and because I just can’t stand deleting usable code). This ...
- Crazy CSS Underline Effects
- Check out these crazy CSS underline effects:
u.double { /* -- double underline -- */
border-bottom: 1px solid;
}
.altdouble { /* alternate double */
border-bottom: 3px double;
line-height: 1.7em;
}
u.triple { /* -- triple threat -- */
border-bottom: 3px double;
line-height: 1.9em;
}
Double Underline Effects! (via u.double class)
Alternate Double Underline! (via .altdouble class)
Triple Underline Effects! (via u.triple class)
- CSS Hack Dumpster
- Consider this page a virtual dumpster of wonderful CSS hacks..
Commented Backslash Hack V2
This hack effectively hides anything after the “\*/” from MacIE5:
/* commented backslash hack v2 \*/
div#something {
boder: thin solid red;
}
/* end hack */
May also be used for CSS import directives:
/* commented backslash hack v2 \*/
@import url(http://www.site.com/stylesheet.css);
/* end hack */
Fix Division Widths in IE
Fix IE’s crazy box rendering. The first line limits to only IE. The second line
* html ...
- sIFR Notes Plus
- Here are a few sIFR Notes for Perishable Press. Just what are we looking at here? Well, first it is important to understand the sIFR variables and the order in which they should appear:
(sSelector, sFlashSrc, sColor, sLinkColor, sHoverColor, sBgColor, nPaddingTop, nPaddingRight, nPaddingBottom, nPaddingLeft, sFlashVars, sCase, sWmode)
The variable, sFlashVars consists of the following sub-variables (these should be seperated with an & sign:
# Align Flash text block
textalign=center
# Moves text any number of pixels to the right...
- WordPress Core File Edits at Perishable Press
- Update: After upgrading Perishable Press in 2007, many of the hacks listed on this page are no longer applicable. Please refer to our new WordPress Core Edits for current information. Otherwise, this article remains online for reference purposes only.
The folks developing WordPress are continually rolling out “upgrades”. While it is generally a good idea to stay current, it can also be a bit ...
- WordPress Search Function Notes
- Code to call an external WordPress search form:
Code for a standard, inline WordPress search form:
">
Code to try if the search function fails and ...
- Create New Permalink Category
- If you are running WordPress 2.0.2 and have enabled permalinks, you may have had problems creating a new category or page to your site. I recently encountered this dilemma and devised the following strategy for adding, editing, or even deleting WordPress categories and pages. Note: this tutorial assumes you are running Apache.
First, open wp-includes/vars.php and find (around line #39):
$is_apache = ( strstr($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Apache') || strstr($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'LiteSpeed') ) ? 1 : 0;
Comment out that line and add the ...
- Customize Password-Protected Posts
- To customize WordPress-powered password-protected posts such as this one, follow these simple steps.
First open template-functions-post.php and find the function get_the_password_form, which is located near the top of the page.
There are several aspects of this function that you may wish to customize. For example, the Perishable Press website requires several CSS attributes for stylistic control. Thus we simply added the class postpassword to the form input field, as well as the class passwordsubmit ...
- Migration and Propagation Business
- The overly dramatic process of transferring our Online Empire to a new server and then back again manifests several valuable lessons. Please look back your note and observe the following suggestions during any future server migration and/or domain propagation events...
Domain Propagation
When switching servers, do not cancel the old account until absolutely positive it is no longer needed.
Edit all Domain Name Servers (DNS) with the new server Internet Protocols (IP’s) as soon as ...
- Server Migration Details
- About a year ago we signed up with a hosting provider that offered one of the best hosting deals around: lots of space, bandwidth, and transfer — plus all of the usual server software amenities that make life easier. Everything went smoothly at first...
In fact, the first six months of service were close to 100%. The few help-ticket items submitted were promptly resolved in a professional manner. We were ready to start some business and everything was ...
- Stylish Deleted Text
- Fashion stylish deleted text in XHTML via the über obscure del tag.
Code example:
Terminate me.
Live example:
Terminate me.
- Obscure XHTML Tags
- Well, maybe not that obscure..
-- Preformatted character data
-- Renders as emphasized text
-- Renders as strong emphasized text
-- Renders font as teletype or monospace
-- Defines a definition term
-- Defines computer code text
-- Defines sample computer code
-- Defines keyboard text
-- Defines a variable
-- Defines a citation
-- XHTML Transitional only
-- Indicates deleted text
-- Indicates inserted text
-- Defines a definition list
-- Defines a definition term
-- ...
- Robots Notes Plus
- About the Robots Exclusion Standard1:
The robots exclusion standard or robots.txt protocol is a convention to prevent cooperating web spiders and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website. The information specifying the parts that should not be accessed is specified in a file called robots.txt in the top-level directory of the website.
Notes on the robots.txt Rules:
Rules of specificity apply, not inheritance. Always include a blank line between rules. Note also that not all robots ...
- Lightbox Notes
- To add Lightbox functionality to any single image:
Add rel="lightbox" to the anchor tag.
Add a title="" attribute to the anchor tag.
Add an alt="" attribute to the image tag.
To add Lightbox functionality to any series of images:
Add rel="lightbox[value]" to the anchor tag of each image.
Add a title="" attribute to the anchor tag of each image.
Add an alt="" attribute to the image tag of each image.
Any set of pictures with the same rel="lightbox[value]" will display with nav buttons.
- JavaScript Notes Plus
- Welcome to Perishable Press! This article covers a plethora of useful JavaScript tips and tricks. For more excellent JavaScript information, check out the JavaScript tag archive. If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe to Perishable Press for a periodic dose of online enlightenment ;)
Nifty JavaScript Design Tricks
Clickable divs
Standard design practice dictates that the ...
- Marquee Madness
- For reference purposes..
Marquee Madness
- Pipe Symbols
- Broken pipe symbol » ¦ [ ¦ ]
Unbroken pipe symbol » | [ | ]
- WordPress Notes Plus
- Welcome to Perishable Press! This article covers many different aspects of WordPress functionality, including customizing quicktags, deleting the cache, numbering comments & posts, changing password text, and displaying archive menus. Note that this article was written for previous versions (i.e., less than 2.0) of WordPress. Discrepancies may exist between the code presented in this post and that of more recent versions of WordPress. Nonetheless, this information is presented for ...
- Stupid htaccess Tricks
- Welcome to Perishable Press! This article, Stupid htaccess Tricks, covers just about every htaccess “trick” in the book, and is easily the site’s most popular offering. In addition to this htaccess article, you may also want to explore the rapidly expanding htaccess tag archive. Along with all things htaccess, Perishable Press also focuses on ...
- Online Color Resources
- Color References
Wikipedia Hex & RGB Color Names
Wikipedia Color List
Named Colors Panel
W3 Schools Color Names
Colour Lovers
Texas Precancel Club - Massive Color Links and Resources
Lorelle on WordPress - Color Reference Link List
Color ...
- Secret Search Codes
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- Online Service Essentials
- Essential Online Services for Website Developers:
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- PHP Notes Plus
- Welcome to "PHP Notes Plus" -- an online repository of basic PHP expressions and statements..
Common Statements:
"\n" = new line
"\t" = tab
"\r" = carriage return
"\$" = dollar sign
"\"" = double quote
Example usage:
"\n\t$category->cat_name"
echo '' . "\n";
echo "\n\t\n\n";
echo Multiple Lines of Code
echo ...
- Zone Three
- location : zone 3 (3/9) : grid 6 (6/9) : sectors 1-9 (9/9) : (moses lake, washington)
date : 5 (5/90 days) / 3 (3/4 quarters) / 0003 (year) : (monday, july 4th, 2050)
*PUBLIC TIMES NEWSOURCE
*WORLDFIRST / FDISK MEDIA
*worldfirstnews.com/public/
*
*ZONE: 3 / GRID: 6 / SECTORS: 1-9 -- (3:6:1-9)
*DATE: 05 / 03 / 0011
*RATE: 70.00 CREDITS -- (70.cr)
*ITEM: MNP(V) - 365.303012
*Augustus Klotz / GEN. # 365 - 880.898.553
*||||||||||||:::||:::||::|:|||||:|:|||||||||
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