Category: WordPress

Scripts n Styles received a major update today. The two big features added are LESS.js support and Dynamic Shortcodes! The “Global” Settings page now has a LESS editor with syntax highlighting (via CodeMirror) and on-the-fly compiling so you can see how it’ll be outputted on the theme-side. The per-page meta-box has gained a new tab …...

Scripts n Styles is a tool to allow admins to add scripts and styles without editing template files, or worrying about authors overwriting the code.

Here’s a quickie for WordPress Theme designers: If your theme is getting unwanted scroll-bars because of the new Admin Bar is WordPress 3.1, the core team included a way to handle it. Add Theme Support for it! With a full height layout, you’ll want to avoid adding a margin or padding to a height that …...

Just a quick note. The old theme (iNove) was creating extra history entries for some reason when you came to unfocus.com. I have no idea why, but that theme is now history. This new theme (iCandy 1.4 by Nischal Maniar) fixes the problem and looks nicer anyway. 🙂...

Just testing the iPhone app. Seems pretty spiffy. Can’t manage plugins and whatnot but that’s ok. This is pretty good for posting on the go. It supports landscape typing too. 🙂 For fun (and for testing I attached some pics of some cool clouds that rolled right accross the road on the way into work …...

I had a planed to replace the use of Prototype.js in the Share This WordPress plugin, since that was the only plugin using it. Prototype is quite large, and my server isn’t currently set up to gzip javascript files. I started to replace it with jQuery, and add an option to switch between the two. …...

For a while I have been creating and sending links to History Keeper to /projects/HistoryKeeper/. When I moved that page into WordPress the URL became lower case, and case sensitive. This can be a problem for those used to Windows and IIS non-case sensitive URLs. To get around the problem, I added a hack to …...

Update: This information applies to Giraffe AJAX Calendar 2.3.1. AJAX Calendar 2.4 was released on September 3, 2007. This information is incompatible with that new version. Update 2: It seems that this new version is supposed to simply replace the functionality of the old Calendar, without requiring any extra work (so you’d just use the …...