Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category
New Krypted.com
I just can’t help myself. Every now and then I get a bug up my butt to go messing around with Krypted.com. In this case, I was tired of looking at some broken elements from the page and the front end of the site in general (just felt like something I might have built in [...]
Resetting a WordPress Password
Sometimes you can bite yourself a little when you experiment around with things. I installed a security plug-in and the next thing you know I couldn’t log into my own website. Ouch. Not a huge deal as it actually led to experimentation with the MySQL tables for WordPress, which oddly enough, I’ve typically just left [...]
In: Unix, WordPress · Tagged with: Linux, MySQL, reset password, set, update, WordPress
Integrating WordPress Comments with Facebook
In a constant search for achieving comment nirvana for the sites I manage, I was recently looking into integrating WordPress (and a couple of other CMS engines) with Facebook. The sites are setup to only allow authenticated users to comment and it just seemed like with all of the single-sign on technology out there that [...]
In: WordPress · Tagged with: approval, comments, Email, Facebook, Facebook Connect, Find Facebook API Key, Make API Key, WordPress
Determining WordPress RSS URLs
RSS feeds are pretty darn useful for a lot of things. And WordPress makes them really, really easy. If you want to insert an rss feed somewhere then according to the type of feed you need, you can just use a pretty repeatable pattern to do so. Basically, following the site you would use /wp-rss.php [...]
In: WordPress · Tagged with: atom, feed, rdf, rss, rss2, WordPress
More jQuery Goodness
jQuery is also a great solution for interconnecting various graphical elements and making them do things, like go get you coffee. One such aspect of what you can do is tilt graphics, assign perspective to them and have fluid controller motions. For example, the following script will perform somewhat of a vertical version of coverflow [...]
In: WordPress, sites · Tagged with: coverflow, JavaScript, jquery, Vertical
Leveraging jQuery for Input Validation
jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use at this point, finding its way into something around 20% of the largest websites in the world. One of the main reasons for this is that much of jQuery is meant to allow for working between JavaScript and Ajax. As such it often ends up getting [...]
In: Consulting, WordPress, sites · Tagged with: alphanumeric, input validation, jquery
URL Shortening in WordPress
I’m now doing my own URL Shortening using the Pretty Link plugin for WordPress. For example, the following link is a bit long: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/christmas-in-the-heart/id331549170 So using Pretty Link, I tell it to add a link and then it gets shortened down to (or aliased to more like it): http://krypted.com/bob
In: WordPress · Tagged with: Shorten, URL, WordPress
Fixes
Fixed the similar articles feature not working, then fixed the fact that this broke the front page. Also added some minor wiki integration (more on that tomorrow) and fixed the 1st level vs. 2nd level navigation in the DHTML menu bar. More on the navigation stuff later as this will lead to some content I’ve [...]
In: WordPress, sites · Tagged with: fixes, krypted.com, site news, WordPress
iPhone and Address Bar Icons
When you visit certain websites you may notice a new icon appear in the address bar of the site. I never really wanted one. But by default, when you add a site to the homepage of your iPhone (click on the plus sign in Safari and then click on Add to Home Screen), it will [...]
In: WordPress, sites · Tagged with: address bar, favicon.ico, favorite, home screen, Icon, iPhone, ipod touch, website, WordPress
Krypted.com Moving Today
Krypted.com is moving to a new host today and throughout the weekend. My apologies for any downtime that may be encountered, and duplicate whatnot that gets kicked out and any annoyance it all may cause. I hope you like the new look in our new locale…
In: WordPress, sites · Tagged with: krypted.com, moving
