I recently found myself in a position where I had to sort through the classes of rows on a table where the classes where defined directly via a value from the database. Unfortunately for me, the database entry had words […] Read More »
Below is a demo of a full-screen video background using only CSS and HTML – no JavaScript required. The key to this demo is to use the HTML <video> element with a normal image to use as a fallback as […] Read More »
I recently had a client request numerical pagination on their custom post type pages. This was something I have never done before but is a really common design throughout the web so I thought it would be good to learn. […] Read More »
I recently wanted to learn more about how the WordPress Dashboard Widget API works so I created an example plugin to test it out. The plugin is a dashboard widget version of my WordPress AJAX Example plugin’s admin page. It […] Read More »
Creating your own custom TinyMCE buttons is a great feature that can add a lot of value to your WordPress plugin or theme. Adding a TinyMCE button to your editor makes it easy for the user to add your shortcodes […] Read More »
Last week I did an article on increasing your WordPress security. This week I want to go over some useful shell commands that will let you know what’s going wrong with your security and then how to fix them. Most […] Read More »
Recently I was looking for a way to install the latest version of WordPress plugins that I like to use on my client’s sites without having to FTP. Before I created the small script we’ll see later, I had a […] Read More »
In one of my previous articles I talked about using the WordPress media uploader for your own plugins/themes. I had quite a few questions in the comments of that article about how to do certain things and to elaborate on […] Read More »
Last week I went over how to use the last instance of a terminal command from your bash history. This week I want to show another advanced way of using that command. As it turns out, you can also search […] Read More »
The bash history is one of the most useful things you will find on your command line. For example, most people know that typing !! will perform the last command. This is especially useful if you try to run a […] Read More »