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Category Archives: wordpress
How To: Allow Syntax Highlighting in WordPress Comments
I suppose this could be a plugin, but it seems too simple for all that… With SyntaxHighlighter Evolved installed, add the following PHP snippet to your functions.php file to allow syntax highlighting in your WordPress comments:
One BIG WordPress Site: A Case Study
I recently finished a big project, a few months in the making, that tests the limits of "WordPress as a CMS." At some points in development, I wondered if it was a crazy idea to do this all in WordPress -- but the easy UI (for my client) and quick development (for me) made it [...]
Example of a “Simple” Dreamweaver Extension or ‘One more reason to hate Dreamweaver’
I normally stay away from Dreamweaver, mostly because of a personal dislike, but also beacause if a client wants to use Dreamweaver (because they want to be able to edit their own site), it’s likely they’ll get in over their head and then “Design View” will gunk up the code. I prefer using a CMS [...]
Introducing: WordCycle
Edit: For more information on WordCycle, examples, and support, please see the WordCycle page. I mostly develop two kinds of websites: WordPress sites and not-WordPress sites. In these not-WP sites, I find that I use Alsup’s jQuery Cycle Plugin on a regular basis. For a new project, my client has a slideshow on their homepage [...]
WP+jMonthCalendar=Fancy
I'm developing a website in WordPress for a "tourist destination" that has a few types of content -- webpages, blog posts, events, and business listings. After learning a few things about using WordPress as CMS, I decided at the beginning that everything (except for webpages) would need to be some kind of Post. Using Freshout's [...]
Sub-sites in WordPress
Last year, I wrote a number of posts to TechNotes (the Smith College technology blog for students) about copyright infringement and the Acceptable Use Policy, but the posts were scattered chronologically, and other than searching by tag, there was no good way to gather all the information/announcements together in one place. With the new semester [...]
Customizing TinyMCE without Advanced TinyMCE