TechSkull

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:12:53 +0000

Contact Form 7 field input width issue

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:22:12 +0000

There is an issue with the width of the text fields in Contact Form 7 that occurs when the plugin “all-category-seo-updater” is also installed.

The style sheet for the seo plugin is here all-category-seo-updater/css/allCategorySeoUpdater.css

The first line is

input[type=text]{ width:300px; }

Editing that plugin’s css is not ideal because it will potentially be overwritten during future updates.

To remedy this, I opted instead to modify the theme’s style.css file instead.

In this particular case, it was causing a problem with fields in the sidebar, so I added:

#sidebar input[type=text]{ width:240px; }

Wiki Contents

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:55:28 +0000

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Here is some documentation

This page is wiki editable click here to edit this page.

WPmu series: to widgetize?

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:35:07 +0000

I was originally going to use widgetized sidebars (ease of updating for non-technical users) but if we do this, there will be no way to push out changes to the sites, so I am opting for a hard-coded sidebar. Updates to the theme can be pushed out to each site, so updating all of the sites at once will be a simpler task.

WPmu Series

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:26:25 +0000

I’m going to write a series of posts during development and roll-out of a WPmu site for a client.

It’s kind of a non-standard setup, so I thought it would be interesting to document the decisions that are made during the project.

In this project, we need total control of the layout of the sites – there will be one single theme that each site will use. They will have no control over the theme files, no widget control. They will basically be none-admin users of their blogs. (the client is not just a control freak — we are setting up this project for franchises. The local site will have control over posts, but the branding and theme are to be identical for each site.)

Stay tuned!

Copy from Word to WordPress

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:23:13 +0000

Simply copying and pasting text from MS Word into WordPress is problematic. Though it looks like plain text, it actually contains a bunch of formatting from Word that is, at best, unrelated to the formatting in the CSS for WordPress. At worst, it can really cause some major alignment and font issues.

How to avoid it? Any of these methods will work. Which one you choose depends on your needs.

Write directly in the WP WYSIWYG editor
Copy the text from Word, click on the HTML tab, and copy it there, then switch back to Visual Editor
Copy the text from Word. In the WP editor, click the Advanced Toolbar buttons (#1 below), then click on the Word icon on the toolbar (#2), paste your text in that window.

Add a New Ad using WP125

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:14:42 +0000

Clear your Browser Cache

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:44:54 +0000

Internet Explorer

click here

FireFox:

Open the Firefox browser and navigate to the Tools menu (for Windows users) or the Firefox menu (for Mac users).
View the drop down menu display and choose Options (for Windows) or Preferences (for Macs). A new dialog box will appear.
Click the Privacy icon to get to the cache options. Now you can click the ‘Clear Now’ button.
Watch for a drop down box to appear with numerous checkable boxes. Check ‘Cache’ and press the ‘Clear Private Data Now’ button.
Press the ‘OK’ button (Windows) or simply close the preferences box (Mac). Your cache will now be clear.

Getting Started with WordPress

admin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:51:44 +0000

This post contains links to some excellent

Adding Images to a Post or Page

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:47:48 +0000

At the top of the editor, there are four icons next to the Upload/Insert title. From left to right, they are Photo, Video, Music, Other.

Click the photo icon.

Select the image file from your local machine.

After your image uploads, it will display in the box. Scroll down to the bottom of that window and click Insert Into Post.