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CSSrefresh, automatically refresh stylesheets as soon as you save

CSSrefresh

If you’re like me, obsessed with the minimal, meaningless detail specially when it boils down to refine stylesheets, you likely prove mastery over the subtle art of typing and switching from the editor to the browser while pressing the Magic Combo Command + R so fast that even Flash Gordon would be confused watching you. Well, relax. They found a [...more]

WordPress, showing a post thumbnail (Featured Image), or picking up the first picture in the body of the post

WordPress, showing a post thumbnail (Featured Image), or picking up the first picture in the body of the post, Timthumb folder

How to retrieve the post’s thumbnail, no matter what. If a Featured Image has been set, that will be used. If not, the first picture inserted in the body of the post will be used instead. If still any picture isn’t available, we have two options: show a default picture, or entirely skip the code for the post’s thumbnail. With [...more]

301 Redirect Made Simple

301 Redirection Made Simple

How to rescue your lost visitors when a page has been moved to a different location? And how to not loose any SEO value? We’re seeing two simple methods to achieve such a goal, via the .htaccess file, and with a template page plus a minimal PHP coding. But first what’s a 301 redirection? Note, you would like to give [...more]

WordPress, save your client from the danger nested in the Dashboard

Wordpress, saving the user from the danger nasted in the Dashboard

It happened again. The client asked for an admin access and now hours of fine tuning are gone. Even worse, the website is not that good looking as you planned it to be and you don’t really feel like to have it in your precious portfolio. Too bad. Providing an administrator access to the client is a honest practice. Just [...more]

How to protect an email from Spam scrambling it, an advanced approach for WordPress

Few days ago I published a function to scramble an email address whois purpose was simplicity. You can read more in Protect the email address from spam bots a reusable approach for WordPress. Then I relized that I wanted more options and more elasticity. Taking a step forward, I rewrote it with few enhancements. Still the goal is to make [...more]

Protect the email address from spam bots, a reusable approach for WordPress

The problem: your client really wants to publish her email address on the website. Visitors should be able to click on it and being redirected to the default email application (like Thunderbird). And obviously they should be able to select the email, copy and paste and stuffs. But still, you don’t want any spam harvesters (or spam bot) taking advantage [...more]

Showing the grid while developing using the CSS property opacity

While developing magazines (but not just), is essential for me to have a grid super imposed upon the layout, so when things decide to go wild, I catch them on the flight. As my gran ma was used to say… “I want it quick and I want it easy” So I did a really little bit of coding, to use [...more]