And I’m A Mac

A few days ago i found andimapc.com and made my own version. It follows the format saying then catch phrase. Another example is When Obama Wins. I spent a little over 2 hours creating the site, another 30 min changing the design to be less like andimapc.com, and then a few hours creating a moderation system for it due to abusers.

Go have a look.

Admin Comment Highlighting for Wordpress

I tried a few examples from the internet and neither seamed to work properly so i adapted the two that i found.

First things first:
Open your comments.php file and look for a line like this.

<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-< ?php comment_ID() ?>">
</li>

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WordPress 2.5 = All Good

This morning i installed the new Wordpress 2.5 and it went without a hitch. Something mush have changed between yesterday and today.

Now i can enjoy the change in scenery. Speaking of scenery, i got my camera back, seams to be in fine working order. I need to get some free time to over the photos that have been sitting in there folders for the past few months.

Also check out http://www.thewonderingphotographer.com/ were i have about 25 images posted, and there is a new one every day. Please comment and rate the photos! Its more for show and tell as well as learning.

Wordpress 2.5 RC2 = Not Cool!

This morning i installed the new Wordpress 2.5 RC after testing it on my dev install with out any issues. This was not the case when i decided to upgrade Studio Lounge. I got a fetal error from a taxonomy.php file and every thing broke, the front end as well as the back end, i was forced to revert back to Wordpress 2.3.3. I have logged the error and have no idea why it happened, i only how the issue is fixed by the time it is released.

Ultimate Tag Warrior

Ultimate Tag Warrior seams to break Wordpress 2.3 so the tagcloud is more of a drizzle until its updated.

I am using the new internal Wordpress Cloud at the moment and it lacks the auto generation that i like, but it seams to be doing the job.

Wordpress wp_list_pages Hack

I’m working on a template that was designed to have Tabs and I really didn’t think to much of it, I naturally assumed that it would be possible to add a <span ? tag around the title in the site navigation. Um yea not true. After a bit of searching I found a line in the classes.php in the wp-includes folder that looks like this (around line 517 in version 2.2):

$output .= $indent . '<li class="' . $css_class . '"><a href="' . get_page_link($page->ID) . '" title="' . attribute_escape(apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title)) . '">' . apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title) . '</a>';

I simply added a tag around the title area and viola it worked like a hot damn.

$output .= $indent . '
<li class="' . $css_class . '"><a title="' . attribute_escape(apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title)) . '" href="' . get_page_link($page->ID) . '"><span>' . apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title) . '</span></a>';

$output .= $indent . '
	<li class="' . $css_class . '"><a title="' . attribute_escape(apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title)) . '" href="' . get_page_link($page->ID) . '"><span>' . apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title) . '</span></a>';

Hope this helps.

wp-admin Drop Menu

This plug in deserves a mention, i tried a drop down plug in a few months ago and was not please with it. it was full of bugs and i promply removed it. but i actually found this one by mistake while looking for a download manager. This one is called “Admin Drop Menus Version 2.0.5” by Yellow Swordfish. There plug in is stylish and fast and supports the latest version of word press currently 2.1

Php Switch with a cookie

The Php Switch is a neat little script. it can be used for a lot of different things. but today we will create a script that will let a user change what style sheet they want and the script will create a cookie to remember the users input.

we can start off by making a few different style sheets. All i did is changed the background colour, you could change whatever you want with these files.

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Plugins on my site

Wordpress out of the box is a great tool but thanks to these plugins and the people that made them it can be just a little bit better! it took a lot of searching and countless tries of other versions of most of these plugins but i pretty much have them nailed down now. so i feel it is my responsibility to share my findings with the public.

anything else you notice that seams different on my site may be a modification and if i can help you out jsut leave a comment and ill see what i can do.

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