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How to add Syntax Highlight to WordPress
Jul 2nd
I wrote quite a while ago about How to implement Syntax Highlight in your WordPress blog. It used an forward, yet permanent approach: modify you’re theme’s header.php. But is it enough?
Lately, I wanted to update my blog’s theme to the newest version. But hey! I had a lot of modifications such the one above that kept me from doing a smooth update: BNR Slider, custom images for RSS and Twitter, hints, Syntax Highlight and so on.
The newest solution that I come up with is using a child theme, feature provided by WordPress engine. Basically, you have a theme applied to you blog More >
Add Silverlight to WordPress
Jun 4th
As I presented earlier, you can easily create a Silverlight video player and you can see it working pretty nice. Not to mention that it can play a lot of formats and it is only 344 kb in size! Now let’s see how this is possible and how can one do it on his website.
From the start, Silverlight was meant to be as easiest as possible to develop and deploy. Also, the cross browser (running on all major browsers) and cross platform (running on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows) was a requirement. But more than this, not to depend on the server side More >
Silverlight VideoPlayer for RailsCasts
Jun 1st
I am and will be a Microsoft Developer. While working for convenience with other tools, I love strong type languages. I don’t want to ship products because I saved once and hit “s” one more time, so my product will be shipped with that small, human and yet unpardonable error in code.
How many times did you loose your time and effort with PHP in order to find a small mistake like this?
In my pursue on Microsoft tools path I started enjoying the Silverlight technology. Who might not know, Silverlight is a competitor to Flash. By now, on its 4th More >
"Windows Live Writer" won’t upload images to WordPress
May 15th
I’ve used WordPress for almost two years now and today I faced a big challenge: I couldn’t post my articles who contained images to Word press with my Windows LiveWriter application.
Note: This comes after a long period in which I didn’t upgrade the plugins of my WordPress application ( I had 11 of them pending upgrade). Also, I had a full system reinstall (you know, the one with formatting the system drive). After that, I reinstalled and configured all my tools, starting with Visual Studio and ending with Paint .Net.
Because I had a lot of stuff to write, in the More >
How to generate image_src for Facebook links in WordPress theme
Feb 18th
Sharing your article for free advertisement on Facebook is a fact. While using different Social Networks sharing tools I had a problem when sharing my articles on Facebook: sometimes the image that I intended to use to represent the article wouldn’t show in the list of the images who can be chosen. Why is that?
It bothered me some while I got the some free time to actually look into this, between exams, work and master research. After some wandering on the internet, I found here the correct directions. What I learnt: Always search for the API!
In order to make sure that the More >
How to add a nice jQuery slider
Nov 15th
This weekend fun was adding to my website the cool sliding control from Jérémie Tisseau website. That pretty it was, I immediately started thinking it as a container to my BNR exchange rate page. The coded worked perfectly, with few modifications.
Firstly, WordPress uses the $ operator for Prototype library, so if you want to add your jQuery library the invocation to WordPress Firebug will report the error “$ is not a function”. So here’s the fix: you’ll have to change any occurrence of the $ sign to jQuery. Just like in the following example:
$(document).ready(function() {
// Expand Panel
$("#open").click(function(){
$("div#panel").slideDown("slow");
}); More > WordPress – Database backup and restore
Sep 13th
From time to time, you’ll need to get a backup of your MySQL database and install it on a different machine – as I needed when reinstalling my Windows 7. I wanted to do something simple, as the last time. But now the database sql file is 11 Mb as opposed to merely 2 MB last time.
But I thought that this would be a breeze for the MySQL interface that I use and enjoy – HeidiSQL. It’s free, easy to use and user friendly. I personally don’t like too much the phpMyAdmin interface from the Vertrigo webserver installation that I use for local More >
WordPress – How to Delete Existing Post Revisions
Sep 9th
This is the second part of managing WordPress feature of post revisions, for the users who had disabled or turned off post revisions tracking or versions history feature. As you already know, this feature exists in WordPress (starting with WordPress 2.6). After disable it (of course, if you really need to do that), it also make sense to also delete and remove all existing stored post revisions. By doing so, you’ll remove changes made on pages stored in the database such that you’ll slim down the wp_posts table size´. This is especially recommended when there is already lots of revisions or changes More >
WordPress – managing Post Revisions Tracking
Sep 7th
A very interesting feature added in WordPress blog publishing system since version 2.6 is the post revisions tracking, like in version control systems. It simply adds a Wiki-like style tracking of edits that had been made to the posts or pages. This allows bloggers and authors to view, control and moderate – knowing who and when made what changes to any post or page. It also includes the ability to compare for differences between each saved versions, or revert back to older version.
SyntaxHighlighter – how to use it and brushes available
Sep 4th
The brushes used by SyntaxHighlighter are in separate syntax files named brushes. The following can be used to format the <pre class=”brush: brushname”> that you want to use.
Brushes () in alphabetical order:
Brush name Brush aliases File name ActionScript3 as3, actionscript3 shBrushAS3.js Bash/shell bash, shell shBrushBash.js C# c-sharp, csharp shBrushCSharp.js C++ cpp, c shBrushCpp.js CSS css shBrushCss.js
