Creating a valid WordPress theme

Tagged WordPress Deutsch

Recently, I’ve been checking out some of the blogs that link back to me because they use one of my plugins. And it seems like a lot of them are using buggy, incorrect templates. It looks like many WordPress theme developers don’t read the theme development checklist. (more…)

Change Typo3 template depending on column content

Tagged Typo3 Deutsch

Let’s assume you don’t just want to inject some HTML if there is content in a column, but you want to use a completely different layout. This isn’t hard to accomplish, see the example: (more…)

Move WordPress Comments

Tagged WordPress plugin

This plugin adds a small form to every comment on your blog. The form is only added for admins and allows you to move comments to a different page and to fix comment threading. This plugin is not designed for mass-moving of comments, rather for moving single comments from time to time. There are other plugins better suited for moving many comments at once.
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My favorite Firefox Add-ons

Tagged firefox

This is about the Firefox Add-ons I use. This really is a complete list, I like to keep my browser lean. I’m fully aware that most people will miss things like Adblock, Pixel perfect and greasemonkey, but I don’t use them. (more…)

Accents in xorg

Tagged Debian

Most of the time I’m a very happy vim user. Vim has superb support for inputting all kind of characters, see :help digraph and :digraphs. But from time to time I need to input accents etc. in other GUI apps. (more…)

PPC Mac partition oddity

Tagged Linux

I have an old Powerbook and wanted to mount a USB drive I formatted with it on a Linux box. The Linux computer had a custom kernel with mac partition support (CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION). Oddly, the kernel didn’t recognize the partitions on the drive. (more…)