While attempting to create a consistent cross-browser font baseline, I ran into the following strange behaviour in certain browsers (not IE for once!). Any monospaced font was rendered smaller than the surrounding text, even when specifically set to display at 1em. I found this to be true in both Firefox and Chrome. After a bit […]
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Update: The first piece of code had an unexpected side effect that is addressed in the update at the bottom of this post. CSS media queries and jQuery window width calculations each handle scrollbars differently. This can cause unexpected (and ugly) results when they are used together. I was recently building a responsive menu system
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Let’s face it, if you’re a developer you want to make things as simple as possible for your clients. One way to do this is to set the default media sizes when your theme is activated. Your users should never need to try to figure out the width of the content area. They shouldn’t have
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Jason Schuller of Press75.com mentioned on Twitter yesterday that the taxonomy UI in the WordPress admin could use some improvement: “In regards to custom taxonomies, it would be nice to have just one tabbed box within the editor instead a separate box for each taxonomy.” I thought that sounded like a good idea, so I
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Update: After further testing, it appears that a bug in Internet Explorer prevents the drop down menu from opening. There are a number of ways to get around this IE bug, but I’m not going to go into that here. I was building a drop down menu while working on a personal project and I
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Recently I was working on a project where I was writing some PHP and HTML source code documentation and publishing it via WordPress. As you may know, the WordPress visual editor isn’t ideal when it comes to handling such code. Consequently, I went looking for a way to set the default editor to HTML rather
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Please note: this plugin template is no longer maintained. I’ve started developing WordPress plugins from scratch too many times. I don’t enjoy repeating the setup process for every plugin I develop, so I’ve created a default plugin template that has all the basics included. Enjoy! Download Plugin Template 1.1
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Those of you who know WordPress like the back of your hand, please feel free to skip this post. It is simply an explanation of the “More” tag used by WordPress post editor. The “More” tag is used to let WordPress know just how much of each post should be displayed on multiple post pages
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