Links Round Up for 10/31/10
Here is the links round up for Halloween!
Quick Tip: Custom Category Styles in WordPress
Over the weekend I revamped this blog’s current theme a little bit, including adding custom styles for my Link Round-up lists. I achieved this by adding a simple piece of code within my loop to make each category a CSS class. Here’s how I did it. Note: You need to be at least a little bit familiar with the WordPress…
Design | Quick Tips | Websites
Quick Tip: User Level Themes for Client Site Reviews in WordPress
Recently I launched a couple of websites using WordPress and instead of using a temp directory for testing/client review, I used a plugin & theme instead. Using this technique I didn’t have to worry about moving directories, changing the WordPress directory/blog URLs, Â or checking image sources in posts. Here’s how I did it.
Code | Quick Tips | Tech
Create a Temp/Splash Page in WordPress
Often times I will be working on a WordPress theme that I want to live test, but I don’t want to reveal it to the world yet. The solution would be to throw up a temp page while you work. However, you may have noticed that throwing an index.html file in the WordPress directory or similar solutions break WordPress. Today…
QT: Increase the WordPress RSS Widget Refresh Rate
While working on the redesign to this blog, I wanted to add the “Interesting Stuff” column you see just to the right. Using the RSS feed widget built into WordPress would be perfect, except for the fact that it only updates ever 12 hours. In today’s Quick Tip, we fix that problem.
Directory Handler at Theme Forest
I’m happy to announce my first Theme Forest component, Directory Handler. it’s a simple set of 2 classes that handle (in several ways) listing the contents of a directory. The main class, DirectoryHandler, includes several functions that: Get and/or print the entire contents of a directory Normalize the name of a file or directory (replace special characters with spaces) Return…
State Drop Down box
Today, working on a project, I searched for a ‘State Drop Down Box’ for a form. Believe it or not, I couldn’t really find one, and had to ‘borrow’ own. So figured why not add one that is easy to get to my site. on top of Code I have added ‘Code Cips as a category, and for this post,…
Writing a User log-in
Here is the user login code I have been promising. It’s an image so it looks nice. You can download it at the bottom of the post. Keep in mind- This must be placed before the head tag in the page so if cookies are created, they can be… This might not be the most efficient code, but it does…
Types of classes, part 2
Today I will continue my series on classes in Java. To review where we are, you can read this post. First of all, we need to add a couple of methods to our class. There are two other types of methods in classes: reporters and mutators. A reporter does exactly that. As you might notice, our instance variables are private,…
Types of classes
Today and over the last couple of days we have been talking about classes in Java. I’m fairly certain I understand them enough to now talk about them here. Tonight I will introduce them and continue the discussion later. Basically, a class “consists of a collection of types of encapsulated instance variables and types of methods, possibly with implementation of…
