Category Archives: wordpress
Solving 403 errors with CloudFlare
Recently I’ve switched over to using CloudFlare, for those unfamiliar it’s a proxy caching service. It caches resources from your site in several data centers. When looking over Google Webmaster Tools, I noticed every page it crawled was a 403 … Continue reading
WordPress Custom Headers Update for 3.4
With the upcoming release of WordPress 3.4 the theme UI has had an overhaul, including some great enhancements for custom headers. Continue reading
Simple:Press Forum to bbPress Forum Conversion
As part of a refresh on this site, the support forums have been migrated over to bbPress. There are a handful of importers available for some of the major forum software packages, but none existed for the plugin Simple:Press forum. … Continue reading
Making Theme Widget Areas More Dynamic
Making a horizontal widget area more dynamic. Instead of hard-coding the widths of each widget and making the layout static, I decided to make it have dynamic widths. By dynamic I’m not just talking about using percentage widths, but making the widths dependent on how many widgets are added to the area. By using a built-in WordPress function and some simple php math, dynamic widths can easily be applied. Continue reading
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Google Maps API
In a recent project it was asked to provide a Google map on a number of pages. It would have been to time consuming to create a custom map and manually place the code on each page. Instead using the Google Maps API was a better choice because the address could be pulled from a custom field in the post and used to create the map. The first step is signing up for a API key, as with most Google products is free and only requires a Google account. Continue reading
