Before Windows SP2 (Service Pack 2) FTP (File Transfer Protocol) worked. I used it everyday with my favourite FTP program, Filezilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/). Then SP2 came along and FTP stopped working. I searched and searched internet wide for a solution and tried them all, including disabling my anti-virus software and the Windows Firewall, but eventually I gave up and used an internet based file transfer application which was not ideal and inferior to using FileZilla. But today I decided once again to get FTP working with Windows XP SP2. Victory!
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I have recently released "AdaptVint" to the WordPress community. Its a very simple XHTML theme for WordPress 2.0 that I am already using on some of my other sites.
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There are now loads of places on the Internet where one can access free CSS menu's. But of the many that are available very few suceed in replicating the prehistoric roll-over image menu using javascript image replacement techniques, with only lovely CSS. I have managed to create one that works in both decent web browsers and crap ones (Internet Explorer), check it out.
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I am currently playing with this category. Come back within 7 days from now and the playing will have ceased and the fun began ...
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I am currently playing with this category. Come back within 7 days from now and the playing will have ceased and the fun began ...
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I am proud to present, "Adepted 1.0". It is a simple, slick CSS and XHTML WordPress theme ready made for Google Adsense.
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7 free CSS layouts that all validate to the XHTML 1.1 declaration.
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By default, the image upload tool build into WordPress creates thumbnail images. So when the user clicks "send to editor" the image rendered will be a thumbnail of the original image uploaded. WordPress renders this by placing ".thumbnail" The file "/wp-admin/inline-uploading.php" is used to render image thumbnails. Lines 81-85 dictate a maximum width of 128 pixels or a maximum height of 96 pixels. Perhaps in future versions of WordPress the width and height pixel values will be an option in the WordPress administration. after the image name and between the image extension:
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By default all WordPress posts viewed as a single post are controlled by the particular theme's "single.php" file.
WordPress, by default is setup to use one template file ("single.php") for every post.(But what if you wanted to display a different layout or different code dependent on the specific categories a post or filed into?
To do this with WordPress; one needs to use a bit of PHP in the "single.php" file and create category specific files.
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On a recent job, the client consistently demanded a splash page for their website. Despite my consistent groans and insistence that the implementation of a splash page on their website would instantly turn it, them and me to the dark side, I gave in.
I reluctantly implemented a quick solution using WordPress. I used php to check if the user was referred to the index page from within the site or from out with the site.
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