Blog Category: Development
WordPress Function to Easily Include Files
July 6, 2014 Development, PHP, WordPress
When building a website these days, include files are incredibly useful for the common pieces such as the header, footer and sidebar. In WordPress, I usually stick with the basic …
Read MoreKeeping $_GET Variables With .htaccess Rewrite
July 4, 2014 .htaccess, Development
I recently added a new feature to Internapse that allows visitors to switch between the default feed view and the optional headlines view on the results page. To do this, …
Read MoreStopping WordPress From Redirecting Matched Slugs
July 1, 2014 Development, PHP, WordPress
A friend of mine asked recently why an old link was redirecting to a similarly named page in WordPress. Even though the page had been deleted, the link was still …
Read MoreHow to Wait or Delay Script in jQuery
June 17, 2014 Development, jQuery
Continuing yesterday’s post involving setTimeout(), I wanted to expand on the useful function and other ways to wait in jQuery. The basic usage of setTimeout() is to execute code inside …
Read MoreEasily Cancel setTimeout() Function Through Variable
June 16, 2014 Development, jQuery
For a recent project, I found the need to cancel an event in jQuery currently in waiting through the setTimeout() function. The event related to a custom slider and if …
Read MoreHow to Show HTML Special Characters in Textarea
June 15, 2014 Development, PHP
After adding Prism code highlighter to this blog, I quickly found out that all HTML opening angles, which look like <, need to be written in their special character form, …
Read MoreOnly Show Posts in WordPress Search Results
May 30, 2014 Development, PHP, WordPress
By default, the WordPress search shows results from pages and posts. One client only wanted to search their blog posts and not the rest of the pages on the site. …
Read MoreShow Posts From One Category on WordPress Index.php
May 22, 2014 Development, jQuery, WordPress
The same client who wanted only one category to show on the calendar also wanted only one category to show on the blog landing page. This was solved with a …
Read MoreUsing Vector Icons For Arrows and More
April 15, 2014 CSS, Development, HTML, WordPress
Vector icon sets are web icons that can be used through CSS and HTML by including a specialized font family. I frequently use vector icons when developing websites for social …
Read MoreStyling the Default WordPress Calendar
April 2, 2014 CSS, Development, WordPress
When you add the default WordPress calendar widget, it comes out looking pretty bland. It’s coding is stuck in the table-era of web development but it still does the job …
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