I really like the jQuery Cycle plugin for slideshows. It’s easy, it’s jQuery, it works, and it looks good! However, when I setup a slideshow, I want it to play through once and offer a replay button (typically the last slide). With the built in features, this seemed a little difficult to accomplish – but maybe that’s just because I’m no jQuery expert and I just didn’t get it….
But whatever the reasoning, I finally found a way to accomplish what I wanted, here it is: Continue reading
Generally, I’m a big fan of doing things manually – I don’t know why, I guess I just don’t trust other services very much. So when it comes to syncing files between work and home, I usually end up zipping whatever I’m working on and email it to myself. It works – but isn’t exactly the most efficient way of doing things.
Enter DropBox. Continue reading
Custom fields. Incredibly useful if you know why they were setup. If you’re working on a site you set up for yourself, then it’s probably no big deal, but if you’re setting up a WordPress site for a client, it may be beneficial to include notes or a description about the custom fields in the Admin panel (versus a text document or post-it…).
Hopefully this little plugin will help. Continue reading
When you have WordPress installed do you really want all those wp- files in the root directory? No! But do you need them there? I used to think so, otherwise why would it come that way? But you can move those files so they’re out of the way!
With a few easy changes, you can take all the files to never edit and get them out of the way, then bring your content folder to the fore.
Pros: easy to navigate, security via non-default, pleasant to look at
Cons: some plugins will either not work, or need to be edited (default paths hard-coded rather than using global variables)
(Note: NextGen gallery is currently giving me issues, will update if I find a solution) Continue reading