Articles tagged with “tweaks”
- 3 Ways to Exclude Content from WordPress Feeds
- This may surprise you, but I post quite a bit of content that never appears in the site’s main feed. It is my impression that a vast majority of subscribers are interested in web/graphic-design and development-related topics, and are really much less interested (if at all) in the miscellaneous odds and ends that wind up in the ever-expanding Perishable ...
- 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 ...
- Stop WordPress from Leaking PageRank to Admin Pages
- [ Keywords: wordpress, pagerank, pr, admin, pages, login, register, meta, robots, search, google ]
During the most recent Perishable Press redesign, I noticed that several of my WordPress admin pages had been assigned significant levels of PageRank. Not good. After some investigation, I realized that my ancient robots.txt rules were insufficient in preventing Google from indexing various WordPress admin pages. Specifically, the following pages have been indexed and subsequently assigned PageRank:
WP Admin Login Page
...
- Random Fixinz for Hotmail via Outlook Express
- Note: The methods described in this post apply to older versions of Internet Explorer (<6) and Outlook Express (<6), and are provided here for reference purposes only.
Fix the "Unable to poll for new messages" error
Here is an error message that some Outlook Express users receive when sending or receiving email, or after creating a new email account:
Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server.
Account: 'Hotmail'
Server: 'http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp'
Protocol: HTTPMail
Server Response: 'End tag 'D:response' does not match ...
- Rename the Recycle Bin in WinXP
- To rename the Recycle Bin in Windows XP, create a new text.txt file in your favorite directory and add the following lines:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex:50,01,00,20"CallForAttributes"=dword:00000000
Next, rename the file extension from ".txt" to ".reg" -- the other part of the file name may be whatever you prefer (e.g., RecycleBin.reg). Then, double-click the file to have Windows import it into the Registry. Now go right-click your Recycle Bin and use the new option to Rename it.
To remove renaming functionality for the Recycle ...
- Perishable Press Unresolved Error Log
- This post is hereby dedicated to the official logging of all unresolved and/or unexplained errors encountered during development or implementation of various plugins, extensions, themes, scripts, and/or anything else that results in bizarre and mysterious errors, bugs, or other anomalies. Further, we will also post any potential solutions, fixes, workarounds, or explanations for any errors logged in this post. This information is provided for reference purposes only -- please share any related information you may have concerning ...
- Delete index.dat on Windows 98SE
- This brief tutorial on removing (and replacing) the "index.dat" file applies to any Windows OS running on MS-DOS. Although I haven’t researched this officially, it appears that all Windows versions released prior to Windows 2000 are running on the 16-bit MS-DOS kernel. Conversely, Win2000 and WinXP operate on a 32-bit kernel and thus do not utilize MS-DOS. Thus, this method focuses on removing the index.dat from machines running Windows 95, 98, and 98SE.
As you may be ...
- Path to Outlook Express Files on WinXP
- Trying to backup your Outlook Express .dbx files on Windows XP may prove difficult if you can’t find them. Well, fret no more, my friend. Here is the generalized path to the Outlook Express folder, which contains all of the .dbx files for a particular user. Copy, paste, and shortcut:
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{12345678-1234-ABCD-EFGH-1234567890AB}\Microsoft\Outlook Express
* [username] = each user will should have their set of .dbx files.
* {12345678-1234-ABCD-EFGH-1234567890AB} = represents a unique alphanumeric string.
- WordPress on Crack: Tips for Faster Post Publishing
- Apparently, article posting is painfully slow on 2-ish versions of WordPress. Indeed, we finally got tired of waiting several minutes every time we published, saved, or edited a post.
After a bit of research, reading through countless complaints and suggested remedies, several key methods began to emerge. And, after taking the time to implement them, we have definitely enjoyed an substantial decrease in time required to publish, save, or edit posts.
Please ...
- 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.
- Extreme Makeover for Gravatars in WordPress
- Strategic Methods for Improving Gravatar Functionality in WordPress
Gravatars have become a popular way of adding spice to the "comments" page of many WordPress-powered sites. So popular, in fact, that the gravatar server is often overloaded, bogged down with millions of gravatar requests every second. This immense server load effects user pages everywhere, resulting in slow loading times, unresolved server requests, and missing gravatars. Such broken presentations appear unprofessional, tarnish reputations, and may provoke ...
- Delete Unwanted Context Menu Items in WinXP
- Within the right-click context menu is the option to create "New" file items. While the list of available documents within the "New" submenu often contains several useful file types, such as .txt or .zip, it also contains lots of unnecessary entries.
To clean up the "New" right-click context menu, open the Registry Editor, regedit.exe, and Find all instances of "ShellNew". Examine the search results. Every ShellNew branch belongs to a specific type of file. As each ShellNew branch ...
- Folder Background Images in WinXP
- This brief tutorial explains how to add a background image to any folder in Windows XP.
First, make sure all hidden files are visible on your system. Then, open the folder for which you wish to add a background image. Within the folder, right-click and select Properties » Customize tab » Customize. There, choose any icon, click Apply and OK.
That process should have created a "desktop.ini" file. Open that file with a text editor and add these lines ...
- Customize WordPress Quicktags
- Note: This condensed tutorial assumes you are working with WordPress 2+ and are familiar with editing .php and/or .js files.
WordPress quicktags1 provide shortcuts for adding certain bits of code to your posts. The default set of quicktags includes some handy shortcut buttons for tags such as , , and , as well as a few others. While the default set of quicktag buttons is occasionally useful, a quick bit of quicktag customization can easily transform your personal ...
- Hacking Firefox Extensions
- Firefox extensions enable users to customize Firefox with additional features. Generally, Firefox extensions are free, open-source, and easily downloaded as .xpi files. This article explains how to hack Firefox extensions of the .xpi variety. There are many reasons why someone would want to hack a Firefox extension -- examples include: editing code, debugging errors, and learning extensions. This hack method requires a web browser, zip utility, and text editor.
Step 1: Secure an extension
By default, the Firefox browser ...
- 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 ...
- Associate Extensionless Files with Notepad in WinXP
- There are several files that appear not to have extensions in Windows XP. Perhaps the best known example is the HOSTS file. Files such as the HOSTS file that appear to be "extensionless" actually contain an invisible period "." -- or dot -- at the end the file name. It is this invisible dot that will enable us to select a specific program with which to open files with no extensions.
As web developers, we are constantly checking ...
- Lightbox + FancyTooltips Bug Fix
- For those of us enjoying the stylish functionality of Lightbox or any of its many incarnations, images "magically" overlay the window and unfold, revealing navigational buttons, image count, and of course the image titles.
For those of us enjoying the stylish functionality of FancyTooltips or any of its many incarnations, title and alt attributes manifest as stylish displays of CSS brilliance.
However, ...
- Passing Quotation Marks via wp_link_pages
- According to the WordPress Codex 1, it is possible to pass quotation marks via the parameters of the function, wp_link_pages(). This would enable users to assign a particular css class or id to the function output, thereby providing greater design and behavioral control over that particular object.
But alas, as reported several times in the WordPress Codex 2, wp_link_pages() is unable to pass quotes without causing errors.
To fix this, we open template-functions-post.php and find wp_link_pages(), which is located ...
- Reversing WordPress Page Navigation Order
- This article explains how to reverse the order of WordPress page navigation links.
To reverse the default (backward) order of page navigation in WordPress, open the file template-functions-links.php (in WP 2.0) or link-template.php (in WP 2.1/2.2) and scroll down to the last function, posts_nav_link() 1. Next, find the last if statement and switch the order of the following two lines:
previous_posts_link($prelabel);
[ ignore this line ]
next_posts_link($nxtlabel, $max_page);
Next, within the first line of the same function ...
- Gizoogle Gonna Break it Down
- Gangsta lean. Gangsta tuff. Da Gizoogle Search Engine & Translator delivahz da roofless bidniss fo' da previous post:
Osseus Website Yo Multimedia artist extraordizzle Kenneth Paul Schrag — betta known as Osseus ta his fellow DLa posse — is currently in tha process of updat'n his personal design portfolio website (Flash required) aww nah. Ken's aww ...
- Title Attributes for WordPress Post Navigation
- Improve accessibility by adding title attributes to your WordPress userspace.
This article applies specifically to WordPress 2.0.2, but may be generalized to any WP 2.0+ version.
By default, WordPress navigation links omit the title attributes for both page and post views. Title attributes for links provide additional information that can improve the accessibility of your website. This is especially true when images or text symbols exclusively are used for navigation.
To add title attributes to WordPress page-view links (e.g., links ...
- WordPress RDF Source Makeover
- Beautiful Source-Code Output, Part 1: Whip your WordPress RDF Code into Submission
Update: This article applies specifically to WordPress 2.0.2, but may be generalized to any WP 2.0+ version.
I love looking at beautiful source-code output. However WordPress tends to spit code out in random chunks, often leaving spaces, line breaks, and tabs littered throughout the source output. This messes things up. Lists don’t look like lists and logically written code often appears scattered along the page carelessly. Often, ...