Articles tagged with “plus”
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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)
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Category LiveBookmarks Plus
- Compatible with WordPress 2.3!
CLB+ New version of Category LiveBookmarks Plus now available! CLB+ 2.3.0b enables WordPress 2.3+ users to configure and customize the ultimate set of autodetection feeds, category feeds, category links, and feed links. Features include completely rewritten, optimized code, optional category post counts, and custom RSS-icon links for all category and/or feed links. Overall, the new version is faster and more flexible than ever!
Category LiveBookmarks Plus is ...
- Category LiveBookmarks Plugin
- UPDATE: New version of Category LiveBookmarks now available! →
Already familiar with Firefox’s Live Bookmarks and WordPress RSS feeds? Well then skip the intro and jump to the good stuff »
Enthusiastic Firefox users enjoy the luxury of Live Bookmarks, a feature of Firefox that automatically discovers and updates RSS feeds. Web pages with available feeds are indicated ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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
- Secret Search Codes:
x@777
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links | online resources (via tag)
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summon | key posts (via tag)
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theme | wp themes (via tag)
plugin | wp plugins (via tag)
rrr | error posts (via tag)
- Online Service Essentials
- Essential Online Services for Website Developers:
Speed Tests
Speakeasy
ADSLguide
DSLreports
Network Tools
InternetFrog
DSLreports
Shields UP!!
Whois
Better Whois
DNS Reports
Optimization Tools
SamSpade Tools
Robots Generator
Marketleap Tools
Keyword Density Analyzer
Hotlink Check
Server Headers Check
Link Check
No-www Check...
- Summon Notes Plus
- Summon some notes via Summon Notes Plus:
x@777
Fun with Downlevel Conditional Comments
XHTML Document Header Resource
Stupid htaccess Tricks
Online Service Essentials
Online Color Resources
Stupid htaccess Tricks
WordPress Notes Plus
JavaScript Notes Plus
Robots Notes Plus
HTTP Error Codes
PHP Notes Plus
Lightbox Notes
- 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 ...