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  • My Ugly WordPress, HyperDB, & BuddyPress Deployment Shell Script

    This is the source of some of the website deployment scripts I have. This is one is fairly complex and it is my pocket tool of choice for development of big nasty WordPress sites. Probably only interesting to folks who deal with unix shells and do mildly heavy WordPress work. It’s designed to update from…

  • Tommy’s diggall.sh revised

    Think you know the linux digg command? Ever try to do some simple network discovery with it? This script by Tommy Johnson does some nice condensed discovery. Just pass a domain for the argument. That is all!

  • WordPress 3.0 Ajax Notes

    Collecting up some WordPress 3.0 and Ajax notes. Nice round look at current state of Ajax and WordPress: http://www.wphardcore.com/2010/5-tips-for-using-ajax-in-wordpress/ Here’s the WordPress Trac discussion for implementation in WordPress 3.0: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12400

  • MySQL Tuner has moved

    Okay, I suppose this will be the currently updated location for the MySQL Tuner Perl script: https://launchpad.net/mysqltuner

  • WP Super Edit & Some WordPress TinyMCE Notes

    Discussion on wp-hackers centering around a simpler api for creating simple buttons. Otto: There’s an example to add a quick button to TinyMCE at: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/example_20.php To do this in a WP plugin, you’d hook to mce_buttons_2 (or 3, or 4) to add your button to the list. Then you’d hook up a filter on tiny_mce_before_init…

  • Fixing The WordPress.com Custom CSS Plugin

    That plugin is custom to WordPress.com, so it’s not really for wide usage yet. But I did find these notes for WPMU usage: I needed to do two things to make it work: On line 131 change is_int() to is_numeric(): if ( is_numeric( $blog_id ) ) { switch_to_blog( $blog_id ); $current_plugins = apply_filters( ‘active_plugins’, get_option(…

  • Mega Menus

    Mega Menu Notes from UDWEB list: Inspiration: http://designm.ag/inspiration/mega-menus/ http://www.jhu.edu/ http://www.bentley.edu/ http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mega-dropdown-menus.html Sample Code: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/31/make-a-mega-drop-down-menu-with-jquery/ http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/mega-drop-downs-w-css-jquery/