Not Everyone Needs a Blog
Most people I know haven’t the desire to stand on a soapbox and blog. All they want is a web site that provides basic information which they can update from time to time. WordPress makes an ideal platform to do this.
The purpose of this article is to show how easy it is to make a simple non-blog web site using WordPress and a few useful plug ins.
Scan your theme for suspect code
Here is a useful WordPress plug in for alerting you to suspect code in theme files. It’s from builtBackwards. If you’re like me I go exploring and download lots of interesting themes. Most times I don’t have time to examine the files minutely. So, this plug in is really helpful for scanning all the files in a theme.
TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker)
Scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. Be aware of advertisements or dangerous JavaScript inserted into legitimate themes by third party theme download sites.
Developing content for the iPhone
Web sites and Internet services that are iPhone friendly will be an important opportunity for web developers and people who host a web site. The next Web Weavers Workshop will feature iPhone expert, Rich Warren, who will share his thoughts and tips on creating content for the iPhone and other mobile devices.
More information about the event here.
Setting the ALT tag in WordPress 2.6
WordPress 2.6 introduced changes to image and media handling. One thing that might not be easily evident is the matter of ALT tags for images.
susanj at GIRLZWITHURLZ said this:
I also don’t feel good about deleting the caption (although I did that) as WP says that it also serve as the img’s alt tag, and I want to provide alt tags for ADA compliance, not just to be descriptive.
Well, I think you can have your cake and eat it, too.
WP 2.6 provdes another way to ALT an image under the Advanced Setting tab.
In the Advanced Image Settings section under this tab enter your text into the field, Edit Alternate Text. That will do it.
I tested this when I posted my photos of Willie K and Augie T from last night at my photo site: http://www.surfbreak.com.
To create this gallery of nine images I set the thumbnails to 150×100 (original size 640×427). I also set the vertical and horizontal spaces around the image to 3. I did these two items as well as set the ALT text under the Advanced Settings tab. I found the need to set thumbnails in the Advanced Settings tab because when the original is too large, WP does not automatically resize the thumbnail under the Edit Image tab.
The lightbox effect is done with this plugin:
Understanding if, then, else…
Posted by Jeff Chandler on Weblog Tools Collection, an easy to understand explanation of boolean logic.
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/09/if-then-else/
Tags: boolean, logic, php, Programming
Adding non-spammable email address
I’ve been customizing a template for a website and am looking for a way to include an email address that can’t be found by a bot and spammed. I do not want to use something kludgy like “write us at admin (at) webweavers.org.” I have been trying to follow the instructions on the WordPress site on how to do this, and they cryptically mention the following:
“You can use a free online encoder to encode your email address or use the antispambot() function built into WordPress:
<?php echo antispambot(get_the_author_email()); ?>" There are no instructions on how to access this functionality. Do I put it in my header? My footer? Anywhere I like? What precisely am I supposed to write? Where do I put in the actual address? This article is marked "in need to editing." I agree....
Using WordPress as a CMS
Thord Daniel Hedengren wrote a good article on Devlounge called Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS.
Permalinks bug in WP 2.6
Many people have reported that the links to their posts get a 404 not found error message after upgrading to the latest WordPress version, 2.6. This is indeed a verified bug and has been reported. There is an easy fix to apply until the bug is fixed in 2.6.1.
Here is the link to information about the bug and the easy fix.
Tags: bugs, permalinks, WordPress
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