I’ve been working on a script recently where it would add warnings when a user clicked on certain URLs. I attached an event to a link like so (simplified):
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$('a').each(function(){ $(this).click(function(event){ addWarningToURL($(this).attr('href')); }); }); |
There are some subtleties to jQuery that still confuse me, compared to how traditional JavaScript acts at least. With traditional JavaScript, you could check for “an element”. The simplest example Read More »
With the advent of XHTML Strict 1, you can no longer use target=”_blank” on an A tag in your code. The only solution for this is to use Javascript to Read More »
Since version 2.8, WordPress has included the SimplePie class at it’s core. For a while, SimplePie wasn’t being maintained by the developer, but the WordPress team took over and kept Read More »
I’m using Contact Form 7 on a website I’m building. Currently, Contact Form 7 uses shortcodes, meaning you can drop forms into posts. Something like
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[contact-form 1 "Sign up form"] |
You can’t use shortcodes Read More »
I’m a little disappointed JQuery doesn’t have something uber fancy for this. Something that always catches me out is when trying to replace occurrences of a string, it only replaces Read More »
A while back I wrote a proof of concept for a site which, at its core, allowed people to pick a location on a map. It used the long/lat for Read More »
Recently, I was working with a WordPress theme that includes a “featured image” (added recently to WordPress). Instead of just displaying it on the frontend, I wanted to know how Read More »
I’m building a site at the moment that uses the Smarty templating engine and I came across a snag today. The global “Smarty” variable includes a nice $Smarty.post reference where Read More »
I’ve recently added comments back into my blog. I know that Askimet will do the majority of the work in protecting me from SPAM, but I wanted to make sure Read More »
I’ve always got quite a lot of comment spam on the blog, and this is mostly for older posts that I assume are already dead and wouldn’t be commented on. Read More »
Since Twitter changed things, you’re probably better off looking at A WordPress Twitter stream, without the RSS… WordPress comes with a version of Magpie RSS as part of Read More »