My plugins featured in Web Designer Magazine
In issue 164 of Web Designer Magazine by Imagine publishing there is a feature article on WordPress plug-ins: Electrify Your Blog: The Top 20 WordPress Plug-ins for the Next-gen Blogger
. I’m very happy to see that they listed two of my plugins in it. (more…)
wp_enqueue_style, versioning and conditional CSS comments
I like to enqueue my CSS styles because it has the benefit of adding a version string. A link like style.css?ver=0.7 is useful because it will force visitors to download an updated style.css when the version number is increased. Here’s what I currently use in my functions.php: (more…)
Ajax For All WordPress Blogs
WordPress is stupid
In case you haven’t been aware of this, WordPress core developers think that potentially breaking thousands of links on thousands of sites is an accepatable edge case. Here’s a great summary of what has been said. (more…)
Samsung ML-1610 on Debian GNU/Linux
I bought this printer a long time ago and it was connected to my Mac until that box died. I tried to install it once but never tried again after I didn’t get it to work in less than five minutes. Well, this time I did invest like ten minutes and it works just fine. (more…)
Using recordmydesktop to upload to YouTube, Vimeo etc.
recordMyDesktop is a great tool to make videos of what you’re doing with your computer. This can be very useful to demonstrate software features or to document workflows. By default, recordMyDesktop produces Ogg-Theora-Vorbis. If you want to share your files or upload them to a video site you’ll want to convert them to something more common. (more…)
Password protecting the wp-admin directory
How to add support for navigation menus to your WordPress theme
The new navigation menus system in WordPress 3.0 looks promising, but in my opinion it’s not very usable yet. Anyway, here’s one way to add navigation menus to your theme while maintaining backward compatibility:
In your theme’s functions.php add something like the following code: (more…)
WPMU fast backend switch
I recently converted several simple WordPress installs into a single WPMU install. As I use all of the blogs myself I wanted a quick way to switch between the various backends. This is probably only useful if you don’t have too many blogs and use all of them yourself. The switch links will be added to your super admin menu. (more…)
WordPress 3.0 network lighttpd rewrite rules
Nesting WordPress loops
Sometimes it’s useful to put a WordPress loop inside another loop. To do this you’ll have to create a new WP_Query object, as in this example: (more…)
I am Nicolas Kuttler, a web developer, system administrator and IT consultant from France, currently living in Germany. 
nicolas: Hi Joey, not sure what you mean. The only thing that has a background is the success + error message. You...
Joey: Hey Nic, How to clear the background of your plugin? 
Kar: Wordpress error log shows nothing that could be related to this problem.