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How to Tell if a Variable is Odd or Even
July 17, 2013 Development, HTML, PHP
While creating divs for a recent project, I wanted to assign a class to the even containers so they would float right. Container #1 would float left, #2 would float …
Read MoreCreating a Custom Excerpt with Two Paragraphs
July 17, 2013 Development, HTML, PHP
For my website, I have written a lot of news articles over the years and I wanted to print out an excerpt for each one. Instead of writing an excerpt …
Read MoreHow to Check if a Variable Includes a Number
July 17, 2013 Development, PHP
For spam checking in an email script, I wanted to see if the name field had any numbers in it. Spammers write code that automatically fills out contact forms and …
Read MoreTurning Off the Pixel Grid in Photoshop
July 1, 2013 Design
While editing an image in Adobe Photoshop recently, I zoomed far enough in that white lines appeared. These lines create a pixel grid which simply outlines the small dots so …
Read MoreAssigning Roles for BackWPup to WordPress Users
June 28, 2013 Plugins, WordPress
I recently installed BackWPup, a plugin for WordPress that lets you download your MySQL database and backup your website on a schedule. It’s an incredibly useful plugin and does the …
Read MoreHow to Implement the WordPress Featured Image
June 26, 2013 HTML, PHP, Plugins, WordPress
In WordPress, you’ll notice on the right side of the add/edit post screen a box that says featured image. Some themes take advantage of this area and this is how …
Read MorePHP Function to Grab WordPress Theme Location
June 25, 2013 Development, HTML, PHP, WordPress
Sometimes when I look at WordPress code, especially on older sites, I’ll notice the following line of code: HTML <img src=”/wp-content/themes/my-theme/images/my-image.jpg” alt=”My Image” /> There are a couple reasons to …
Read MoreQuickly Hide the WordPress Admin Bar When Logged In
June 25, 2013 Development, PHP, WordPress
When users are logged in at a website built on WordPress, they’ll see an admin bar at the top of the page by default. There are some cases where I’ve …
Read MoreAdding Bookmarks in Google Drive
May 24, 2013 Online Tools
In Google Drive – which used to be called Google Docs – you can add bookmarks which can act as a table of contents. They are shortcuts to specific places …
Read MoreChange Separator Used in WordPress Title Tags
May 21, 2013 PHP, Plugins, WordPress
In the SEO Yoast plugin for WordPress, you can change the format of your title tags to have consistency across your site as well as strong SEO value. You can …
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