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JavaScript & jQuery: Add Style to Fragment Identifier
It’s easy to style a <div></div> by targeting its ID. But what if you only want to add style when a specific fragment identifier is targeted via the URL? So for example, your page at /about/ has a table with all the data. When visitors arrive directly at /about/, no extra styles are added. But […]
WordPress: Add “View HTML” Button on Edit Post Screen
On a recent project, I found myself viewing the HTML source for every post and page on a WordPress-powered site. After about a thousand clicks, I decided to write a code snippet that adds a “View HTML” button (it’s actually just a link) for each post row displayed on the WordPress “Edit Post” screen. So […]
Redirect Attacker to Special Message
If you are using Apache server, you can stop an attack by getting the IP address of the attacker and then using it to block or redirect all of their requests. Normally I just block the requests using either Deny or Require directives (depending on Apache version), but sometimes it’s fun to redirect the attacker […]
jQuery Add Another Image Link
This code snippet is taken from my plugin, User Submitted Posts. It displays a link that users may click to add another file-upload input field.
Auto-Height for Ajax-Loaded Content
Here is a jQuery function for automatically setting the height of Ajax-loaded content.
WordPress Change Default Number of Displayed Posts
By default, WordPress displays the same number of posts for the home page (when it is set to display posts) and all types of archive views. To change the default number of posts displayed for any specific view, you can add this simple function to your theme’s functions.php file.
WordPress Disable Self Pings
Depending on your WordPress configuration, plugins, and so forth, your site may be suffering from “self-pings”. Self-pings are pingbacks from your own domain, which are not necessary and look kind of silly displayed alongside other, actual pingbacks. If your site is haunted by self-pings, here is a quick code snippet to stop them.
PHP Stringify Formatted Text
This code snippet takes a string of text and removes all carriage returns, new lines, and tabs, replacing any matches with a simple blank space. An ideal way to “stringify” a potentially formatted lump of alphanumeric text.
Disable WordPress Automatic Updates
In case you haven’t noticed, WordPress auto-updates its core files by default. Neat but not always desired. Here is how to disable auto-updates with a few lines of code.
WordPress Change Excerpt Length
This code snippet is SO easy.. check it out if you want to change the default number of words included by default in WordPress excerpts.
Nice little input button with CSS
Just making a note of the CSS used to make a nice little input button, leftover snippet from a previous project.
Free Up Server Disk Space
Recently I spent some time clearing up more free space on my server. Here are some notes on things to check when doing so.