Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

WordPress: Add Scripts to the Pages You Want

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

WordPress makes it very easy to load Scripts into your blog. The beauty of the method that WordPress provides is that it allows plugins and themes to use the same script at the same time by ensuring the script is loaded only once.  

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WordPress ReWrite – new Plugin Coming and a Hint

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

First of all, let me start by saying that Custom ReWriting in WordPress has consumed way more of my time than it ever should have.  I have prayed and pleaded, even considered asking one of the WordPress Gurus on their message board, but I’ve not had much luck getting responses there (questions were probably so esoteric that nobody cared but me ;-) ).

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Radio Buttons not Showing Checked in FireFox

Friday, February 6th, 2009

In the process of building a WordPress plugin that I’m sure will sweep the nation ;-)  , I came across a really annoying FireFox bug with Radio Buttons.  The problem is that if you two groups of Radio Buttons (say 3 buttons in each group) and you set one button as Checked in each group, sometimes, the button in the first group won’t show up as Checked.  Arrrgghhhh! (more…)

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Hosting Your WP Plugin with Aptana and Subclipse – Video pt. 2

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

wp-pluginThis is the 2nd part of this 3 part video series on hosting a plugin on WordPress.org.  There are 3 easy steps to accomplish this, but you need to do them all and you have to do them in order.  So if you haven’t already gotten your WordPress Subversion repository in an email, take a look at Part 1 of this series here. Here in Part 2, we’re going to download and install the Aptana IDE to use as a graphical interface to subversion.  WordPress very helpfully provides instructions for the bare basics needed to use SVN to get your plugin hosted. picture-4Take a gander at the image at the right.  That sent shivers down my spine.  I did download SVN and tried a few SVN commands from the terminal.  And they worked, but I really wanted something a little more point-and-click.  And Aptana was it.

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How to Host a Plugin on WordPress – Video pt. 1

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

wp-pluginThe first time I wrote a WordPress plugin, I thought, “Cool, I’m going to host this puppy on the WordPress website and I’ll get tons of traffic.”  Then I got to the front door and they started talking about SVN.  Then I took a look at what SVN (aka Subversion) was all about, and that was the end of that.  But then, I wrote a more serious plugin, PhotoSmash Galleries, which lets your users upload photos to galleries on your blog, that you can moderate later.  And I knew I had to climb the learning curve and get PhotoSmash hosted.

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PhotoSmash Galleries WordPress Plugin Released

Monday, January 19th, 2009

UPDATE:  7/12/2009 -PhotoSmash 0.3 has been released.  Its new homepage is just getting started, so you might need to browse below if you don’t find what you looking for over at Smashly.net.  Thanks for your patience!

Release Candidate 2 version 0.2.996 (RC3 for 0.3.00) now available at WordPress.

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Get ASP.NET DropDownList Selected Value with jQuery

Friday, October 31st, 2008

With Microsoft’s recent announcement that they will begin shipping jQuery with Visual Studio, the little Javascript framework is about to hit the big time (it was already sort of big time, but this is BIG TIME).  And rightfully so.

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Adobe AIR: Using a Rich Text Editor – TinyMCE Tutorial

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Adobe AIRUPDATE: Please note that this original article was written for a Beat version of AIR. Commenter Jaawad below has indicated that the code here no longer works in the newly released version of AIR. Here’s the old article…First off, I am psyched about Adobe AIR and its possibilities as a development platform. But I’ll save that for a later date. In this post, I want to share a simple example of using Adobe AIR with the TinyMCE rich text editor (wysiwyg editor). To get the lowdown on using TinyMCE, check out the Moxiecode website here….This tutorial includes example files for download below. (more…)

Popularity: 28%