Author Archives: Aaron T. Grogg

Today’s Readings

Let’s start this one off without a bang… As in, no explosion, no combustion, just air, powering a car… Not perfect, but a darned-site better than the puffs of exhaust coming out of cars, vans and trucks currently! For some … Continue reading

WordPress Plug-in: Navigation Menu IDs & Classes

2015-03-13 UPDATE: Slight update, available in the WordPress repo and on GitHub, check the README.txt for details. 2013-03-19 UPDATE: Now available on GitHub: https://github.com/aarontgrogg/wp-plugin-navigation-menu-ids-classes Back in July 2011, I wrote about cleaning up the navigation menus in WP. In that … Continue reading

Making a Case for the Death of Website Navigation

When was the last time you went to a site that you hadn’t visited before and found what you were looking for by using the website’s navigation? Often even the Contact Us info can be a mystery.  I’m screaming at … Continue reading

Update WordPress Comment Form to HTML5, Without Hacking Core Templates

For some reason, WordPress 3.2.1 still uses <input type=”text”…> for email and website addresses on their Leave a Reply form… But to edit those <input> types, you have to edit a core template, found in the wp-includes folder, which, of … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

It has been a seriously long time since my last post, and with Hurricane Irene having forced me indoors for nearly 48 hours, and having retained both power and Internet throughout, I thought, hey, why not catch-up on some reading? … Continue reading

Update for WordPress Plugin wp-phpmyadmin

Recently there has been a lot of press about security issues with the seemingly defunct wp-phpmyadmin WordPress plug-in, which allows you to access phpMyAdmin from within a WordPress installation. The plug-in has been abandoned by the author, but for those … Continue reading

WordPress Navigation Menus: Clean-up Classes and Add Page Names as IDs

UPDATE: I have converted the below code into a WordPress plug-in, check it out! I would have thought this would be a lot easier than it initially was, and in the end, it is really simple, but it took some … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

A great history lesson in what will probably go down as the biggest step in HTML5 early-adoption.  Nice to be able to give credit where credit is due… Omg… Now you can “street” view the ocean… Living in Manhattan it … Continue reading

Know when your bus is late with live transit updates in Google Maps

Ironic to read as I stand on the corner, straining fruitlessly for the sight of anything useful coming my way… http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/know-when-your-bus-is-late-with-live.html Noticeably, but not unexpectedly, absent from the list of data providers is New York City, of course… That ride, … Continue reading

Finally, an update to my Boilerplate: Starkers WP Theme!

Well, it took nearly 9 months, but the first real update to my Boilerplate: Starkers WP Theme is live! The update includes all of the current HTML5 Boilerplate updates that are applicable to WordPress. WordPress’ process still doesn’t allow me … Continue reading