WordPress Loading Two Pages at a Time?
I think I may have just discovered a major issue with WordPress. It would seem that WordPress is loading two pages at a time, the second loading after the first one has rendered on the screen, the other somehow in the background. Here’s what I did to discover it. I’m hoping someone else can verify this and make sure it’s not just my environment and that I’m not just plain crazy! Create a fresh, new WordPress 3.3.1 instance on MAMP. Turn on WordPress DEBUG logging in the wp-config.php file. Turn on the permalink...
read moreHost Your Own Custom WordPress Plugin Auto-Updater
The Problem The biggest appeal WordPress has is it’s extensibility via plugins. But if you create a plugin for personal use or for a corporation with a very specific purpose, you may not want to go through the process of having it submitted, approved, and available for the world on the WordPress Plugin repository. So what’s wrong with just hosting your plugin .zip file and providing a link for convenient access? One answer: updates. When a plugin is installed via the official repository, it will automatically make a call back...
read moreChimpadeedoo Transparent PNG Logo
If you want to use a transparent PNG in MailChimp’s Chimpadeedoo iPad app, the file must be saved, not synced. In other words, if you try to transfer a png to your iPad by syncing it with iTunes, it’s going to get flattened and the transparency removed. But, if you email it to yourself and save it from the iPad, the transparency will be preserved.
read moreCForms CAPTCHA Not Working
Using Cforms II, when I select font17.ttf as the captcha font (the one that looks comic book style) it will not validate…ever. I continue to get the message “Please double-check your verification code.” If I switch fonts, it validates just fine. This has nothing to do with disabling other plugins and using default theme, as I have attempted all of that in order to track down what was causing this issue. I’m now using font4.ttf instead, so I don’t really have an issue anymore, but I’m sure there are many others...
read moreUsing JQuery to enable optgroup in CForms
CForms II is an extremely robust and useful plugin for WordPress. One of the main frustrations I’ve noticed people have with it is the lack of optgroup support with select boxes. I wrote this little piece of JQuery code that will allow you to enable optgroup: if($(".cform").length!=0){ $(".cform select option").each(function(){ if($(this).val() == "groupstart"){ var label = $(this).text(); $(this).nextUntil('option[value|="groupend"]') .wrapAll("<optgroup label='"+label+"' />"); ...
read morejQuery.easing [jQuery.easing.def] is not a function
Error: jQuery.easing [jQuery.easing.def] is not a function Is caused when JQuery javascript doesn’t load before the plugin js. To fix it, you just need to go into the jquery.easing.1.3.js file and wrap it with $(document).ready(function() { ... });
read moreAmazon Cloud Drive/Player
Based on my experience, you cannot upload an MP3 that contains a dollar sign ($) to the Amazon Cloud Player. I had to rename mine in iTunes or it would just sit and attempt to upload over, and over, and over again.
read moreCoda vs. Dreamweaver
I’ve recently abandoned Dreamweaver as my primary web development platform. I know what you are thinking, “what took you so long?” Well, the truth of the matter is, I think Dreamweaver gets a bad wrap, just because of the WYSYWIG stigma. Frankly, I rarely if ever, was using the Design view in Dreamweaver and I mostly used it as a text based editor. I really love the shortcuts they’ve built in and found myself developing rather quickly because of them. So much so, that it has taken me quite some time, and quite a bit of...
read morewp-admin issues with Hosting a Primary Domain From a Subfolder on Bluehost
If you are using the instructions found on Bluehost’s Knowledgebase about How to host the Primary Domain from a subfolder for a wordpress site, you may notice that when you add wp-admin to the end of your URL it seems that can’t log in. The issue is that there are so much redirect magic going on, that the correct handling of redirecting /wp-admin without a slash to /wp-admin/ with a slash doesn’t happen correctly. You can fix this by either always typing the trailing slash, bookmarking it with the slash and not typing at all,...
read moreCForms II, Bluehost and the From: address
There are several forum posts, articles, and help from bluehost attempting to explain how to get the default address on Bluehost to send to something besides user@***.bluehost.com when using CForms II plugin for WordPress. However, I had no success with following them. They all seem pretty out of date and are lacking in specific instructions. So, I’m not trying to beat a dead horse here, I’m just trying to sum up exactly what I did that gave me success (after 3 days of trying). My method focuses on using the php.ini approach....
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