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CSS Style Placeholders
When displaying with HTML forms, most modern browsers display placeholder values for textarea and input fields. Once you’ve added placeholder attributes to your form fields, you can style their appearance via CSS.
Display a number for each post
To display an auto-incrementing number for each post, add the following snippet to your theme’s functions.php file:
Convert NEF to JPG
I take a lot of photos and recently started shooting in NEF format (because I bought a Nikon). I like the quality, but had a difficult time (on several occasions) trying to find a way to convert the NEF files to JPG or PNG.
Google Search Engine Alternatives
Google is the Web’s #1 search engine, hands down. But not everyone is in love with it. Fortunately, there are plenty of decent alternatives for those who wish to diversify their search results. Here is a list of the top alternatives to the Google search engine.
Deluxe Copyright Dates in WordPress
There are (at least) three ways to display copyright information (date and name) on your WordPress-powered web pages.
772×250 vs 772×250
Just a heads up for Photoshop users exporting graphics for their WordPress plugin in the WP Plugin Directory.
Content negotiation for WordPress
Quick PHP script for automatically selecting the best content type based on what the browser accepts. Works as-is for WordPress, or is easily modified to work with any PHP page.
Disable default WordPress widgets
Delivering a clean custom theme involves removing components or features that will not be used. Here’s how to disable WordPress default widgets:
Display the visitor’s Google search terms
A neat trick in your themes is to display the search terms used by the visitor somewhere on the page. Here’s how to do it for visitor’s arriving at your site after searching in Google.
Obscure template tags that rock
Here are my favorite “lesser-known” and perhaps even obscure template tags for WordPress:
Disable iOS Tap Color
Here is a quick CSS snippet to disable the tap color in iOS.
jQuery Toggle Password Field
Just a quick jQuery code snippet to toggle a password field. I used this technique for the license field of my premium WordPress firewall plugin, BBQ Pro. Sharing it here for reference and just in case I need to use it again.
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