Tag: wordpress

The Fluid Video Embeds Plugin Now Has a Shortcode

This post is just a quick note to say that the Fluid Video Embeds plugin now supports a shortcode implementation. This is useful if you want to embed a YouTube or Vimeo video in one of your php theme files. Read more about it at the Fluid Video Embeds page in the WordPress plugin repository. Thanks to Alexander for the suggestion!

Plugin en el español http://wordpress.org/plugins/fluid-video-embeds/ por Andrew de WebHostingHub

Fluid Video Embeds Now Works Better With Feeds

One of my WordPress Plugins; Fluid Video Embeds just got a minor update. The plugin works by wrapping YouTube and Vimeo videos in some nifty HTML markup that makes them fluid (stretchy, 100% width, elastic, etc.) Read More

Some Useful MySQL Snippets

Every day at work, I run different MySQL queries to make my life as a developer a little easier. Tools such as phpMyAdmin can be a real benefit, but it’s often quicker to use the command line to run database commands.

Since I work with WordPress the most, here’s a handy snippet that no WordPress developer should be without; update your live database download so it works on your Read More

Rage Avatars WordPress Plugin

At my day job I write WordPress plugins all the time. We love that platform. Writing a plugin for me is typically an exercise of utility, so when I decided to create my first “Jamie” plugin I wanted it to be almost pointless. Since Humor is one of my loves in life, I decided to create a WordPress plugin based around Read More

New Design/Theme

I’m studying up on responsive design and decided to design an exceedingly simple but functional theme for my site.

What you’re seeing right now is just the base theme that I will customize further once I’m happy with the framework.

Try resizing your window or viewing this site on an iPad. You’ll notice that the navigation changes, the sidebar becomes the footer and the prev/next posts buttons become sticky and stay with you when you scroll.

Update: Oct 30th 2011
I’ve removed the sticky prev/next buttons as they don’t play very well with the Android browsers… Booooo!

Update: Apr 10th 2012
I’ve further simplified the design for aesthetic reasons. The sidebar is no more and the typography has been changed a bit. The layout is also no longer fluid. It is still responsive in that it uses media queries, but it’s not ‘flexy’ like it was before.

WordPress Self Compare Fail-safe Sequence

While editing one of my website pages I wanted to see what would happen if I compared the same revision with itself. It’s nice to see that the WordPress developers have a sense of humor! Read More

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