August 01, 2011
Updated: 2/29/12
I wanted to setup a simple lightbox photo gallery on a WordPress site (v3.2.1, tested and working on 3.3.1) and, to avoid installing a slew of plugins, I put together a little gallery shortcode function using the built-in WordPress gallery shortcode as my starting point. I’m a big fan of PrettyPhoto, so I modified the output of the gallery shortcode to include a rel= attribute for PrettyPhoto galleries. (more…)
July 27, 2011
I recently needed to output a list of comments and bumped into a little trouble trying to output the comment excerpt. Usually I would use the built-in comment_excerpt() function but I only needed 10 words instead of the 20 that is hard-coded. I put together a little function that I found helpful and thought I would share.
July 27, 2011
Update: tested and working on v3.8.8.
While setting up a store using WP e-Commerce I noticed that the Category Product List Shortcode was no longer working for me.
I cooked up a quick shortcode function using some of their product list code that will query the products by the passed category and output them using the product template. (more…)
June 20, 2011
Often web apps need to send SMS messages to their users (for example: balance alerts, reminders, notifications). To send these text messages from within your app, you basically have 2 options:
1) Pay Twilio and Tropo for the use of their APIs, for roughly a penny per message.
2) Send an email directly to their carrier’s mail-to-SMS gateway – a free service most carriers provide, which will translate your email into an SMS sent to their subscribers’ phone
Twilio and Tropo are about as easy as it gets to integrate (REST-like APIs that return JSON/POX), but you pay for every single message and that can add up quickly. So #2 (mail-to-SMS gateways) starts to look pretty good.
But there’s some problems with mail-to-SMS gateways: (more…)
June 14, 2011
On June 3rd, Facebook updated the Graph API to require an access token to pull wall post data from public Facebook pages. This change can cause scripts to stop working, so here is a quick solution to pull wall post data from public Facebook pages with an access token. (more…)
December 07, 2009
As you know, IE6 does not render transparent PNGs appropriately by default. We can work around it using IE’s proprietary expression CSS property, and there are myriad libraries available to make this easier. However most approaches usually involve creating a separate CSS file for IE6, and most don’t support repeating background images (via the background-repeat CSS property).
We recently stumbled into Drew Diller’s belated PNG fix for IE6, which is the simplest implementation so far, and fully supports repeating background images. All that’s needed is to include a Javascript file and pass an appropriate CSS selector to the library’s fix() function, and the library handles the rest. (more…)
