Geek Out, with Joseph Hinson
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Updated Textmate WordPress Bundle
Well, I’ve finally updated the WordPress bundle from the previous release. In this bundle I’ve included some fairly neat snippets. Almost all of them are wrapped in the brackets. Below is a screenshot of what snippets the bundle contains.
Why are these snippets helpful?
Textmate sni…
Using embeddable mp3 players – Part 2
Obviously, if you’re not going to post mp3s to your site very often, the easy solution is to paste the embed code into your individual post or page using HTML mode, but you might have a need to embed an mp3 on a regular basis. This tutorial will show how to use the embeddable player mentioned in my in…
Using embeddable mp3 players – Part 1
A few weeks ago I wanted to add an mp3 to my daughter’s baby book blog (built on WordPress). At first I thought to install a plugin, but it seemed a bit much for my needs. After trying a few things, I eventually settled on a nice theme-integrated method that uses a google flash-based mp3 player. I&#…
Multiple Widget Locations
Did you know you can register multiple Widget locations in WordPress (self hosted blogs of course)? Well, you can. All you have to do is go to your functions.php file (default usage in /wp-content/themes/default/functions.php), where you’ll see something that looks like this:
register_…
Controlling a Budget; Restaurants
My family unit (at this point in time) is myself, my wife, and my 16 month old daughter. In the past year we have budgeted sporatically, but as of late have gotten back on the wagon. The biggest area of controllable spending for us was restaurants. This past month, with some extra travel expendatures an…
Geekitopia 1.0 (the theme) released
I’ve been working on my old theme that I called Geekitopia. The design for this was originally to captivate my personality with the color pallete and the feel of the site. I love classic games and geeky stuff, so that’s what’s going on in the theme. I also , so I added a color scheme fo…
WordPress Plugin: Slim Title
By default, if a post is set to visibility: Private, or Password Protected, the word “Private:” or “Protected:” is prepended to the title. With a simple google search I found a code snippet that worked in replacing those words with nothing, or if I so choose, anything I li…
All outside links open in a new window, with jQuery
Today a client asked if all the links on his site could open in a new window. I solved that problem with jQuery, and here’s how:
<script type=”text/javascript” charset=”utf-8″>
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery(“a”).filter(function() {
return this.hostname &&a…
float: left; and float: right;
I make websites for a living. I also make websites for fun, either way it’s what I do. When I’m making a 2-column layout, I always float the first left, and the second right. Why? Because I can avoid using too much margin and breaking the site in IE6, due to the notorious float margins bug. I d…
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About Me
My name is Joseph, this is my site where I like to do geeky things. I'm gonna go ahead and say I know WordPress, and talk a lot about it. Enjoy your stay, and feel free to comment on my posts.
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