Monthly Archives: November 2008

Best practice for adding JavaScript code to WordPress plugins

Nov 30th, 2008

This article is intended as a guide on how to add JavaScript code to your plugins. Here is a practical example from WP Wall plugin. Start by hooking your function to wp_print_action:add_action('wp_print_scripts', 'WPWall_ScriptsAction');Next, add the scripts you want to use:function WPWall_ScriptsAction() { $wp_wall_plugin_url = trailingslashit( get_bloginfo('wpurl') ).PLUGINDIR.'/'.

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Big Amazing Grace/Blue Grace Themes Update

Nov 28th, 2008

Thank everyone for voting on the sidebar poll for Amazing Grace enhancements you would like to see. It looks that most people wanted New Features and Cleaner HTML so I got busy and produced the update to both themes. Child Themes Blue Grace now behaves as a child theme for Amazing Grace. That means that both themes share the same code and only have different styling and images. This will make it much easier to maintain, and you get two themes in one package.

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Parkour the Urban Freeflow

Nov 27th, 2008

For years, I dreamt about situations in which I could freely and effortlessly jump around buildings and parking lots. These dreams were so vivid, they felt real. i remember feeling the adrenaline rush even deeply asleep, and the great positive effect the skill had on me.

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Ultimate solution to weird UTF character encoding problem

Nov 26th, 2008

Due to different formats of storing characters in the database, sometimes you may encounter problem with strange characters (like â€”) appearing in your WordPress posts. This can especially happen when moving the site to a different server, a process during which your database needs to be exported and imported. There are several ready solutions to this problem like modifying the character set before and after the database restore as described in this article.

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5 cool WordPress plugins you never heard about

Nov 24th, 2008

Here is the list of five very small but ultra-cool WordPress plugins you probably never heard about. 1. Google Ajax libraries API This plugin replaces the JavaScripts like jQuery, Moo tools and others which are usually loaded from your site, to load from Google instead. This has several key benefits. First is that you will use a lot less bandwidth, important for those paying for bandwidth. Then, your server will be relieved off some load (one less http request).

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