Creating a valid WordPress theme

Diesen Artikel auf 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

Diesen Artikel auf 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…)

My favorite Firefox Add-ons

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…)

About the nonsense of blocking and annoying IE6 users

I know why most people who do web design, JS coding etc. loathe Internet Explorer 6. I hate having to fix stuff for any IE at all, the web would be a better place if that piece of software just died. I welcome efforts to decrease the market share of IE6, I support nagging warnings for IE6 visitors. But what’s with these nonsensical ideas of making websites look worse in it or blocking it? (more…)

WordPress 2.7 and the comment pager

Comment paging is a great new feature in WordPress 2.7. However, how do you not display the pager when there are no previous or next comments? After digging through the code for quite a while and chatting with some people here’s a solution: (more…)

About the CSS3 border radius property

So I have decided to use the CSS3 border-radius property on some sites. They are personal projects so I don’t care if they look a little worse on IE. After a few tweakings I’ve ended up with using things like this: (more…)

Track clicks with mootools

Why would I want to track clicks you may ask. Well, for me it’s about usability and user flow optimization. If I do some ajax/dynamic stuff on a page, I want to see what the users are doing. As they leave no visible traces in the logs, I need to add some. (more…)

Different CSS style for logged in WordPress users

Update: I wrote a theme switch plugin that changes the template for logged in users. It’s available here.

I like to tweak my wordpress theme. And I’m far too lazy to set up a second blog just for development. So I’m looking for a solution to work on my template without distracting visitors. I think one day I’ll write an extension that is a little more powerful than this trick, but it’s a start. (more…)

The biggest CSS annoyance

I think this is one of the biggest design flaws, and I see it all the time when I surf the net. What surprises me is that I even see it on sites that have valid code, a nice design and offer valuable services. (more…)

Help! My mootools script doesn’t work in IE!

Today I went through the pain of installing Windows XP. On QEMU. I wanted to do some JavaScript debugging for mootools. It turned out that IE was just a little picky about list formatting. (more…)