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
Category Archives: web development
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
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
Today’s Readings
From National Geographic, comes the Public Profiler, an interactive world map of surnames. Where do you have family? Was surprised to see “Grogg” so prominent in Switzerland… A great-looking product from Adobe, Adobe Nav, let’s you use your iPad as … Continue reading