Widget Voodoo Release 1.0.4 Supports Variable Title Styling
Widget Voodoo morphs sidebar widgets into stylishly collapsible objects. The new release goes one step further in “stylishness” and adds support to variable styling of widget titles depending on the collapsed/expanded state of the widget.
A live example is right here on my blog – look for the “Archives” widget in my left sidebar.
Go ahead, get the newest version at wordpress.org. Then grab the CSS used to style it at the plugin homepage.
Have fun! And a happy Easter to everybody!
How To Couple a TOC Box to an Image
TOC boxes are designed to be freely positioned in posts using a short code.
Recently, I’ve been approached with a request for instructions on an interesting use-case: Positioning a TOC box together with an image.
Here’s how I’d do it.
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Widget Voodoo Release 1.0.3
The new Widget Voodoo release, 1.0.3, fixes a small (but annoying) misbehavior with the Tag Cloud widget.
Please update to the newest version to avoid future (bad) surprises.
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Banking Crisis Explanation for Dummies
There are many complicated explanations of the banking crisis, but it all comes down to some very simple patterns of human nature.
Here is one that’s actually quite plausible:
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The Most Ridiculous Dialogs At Court
Sometimes, a court is the stage of the most ridiculous dialogs. Here’s a collection of some real nonsense going on in Justicia’s temples.
TOC Boxes 1.5.1 Release
I am releasing a new version of TOC Boxes. It fixes two subtle but annoying bugs.
Can You Sell Ideas?
According to Paul Graham, this won’t work. If people could sell ideas, there would be a market for ideas. Is there one? Nope! Ergo, ideas – as a trade good – are worthless.
Simple DIY Tab-Style Navigation Tutorial
This post discusses the possibilities to easily implement a tab-style navigation bar, like the one found on the plugin pages at wordpress.org. It’s a very basic tutorial most suitable for beginners. Folks experienced in HTML and CSS will find little new here.
In cases when it is used regularly, a tab bar would be implemented by a plugin. But when it’s usage is more an exception than a rule, it may make no sense to descend into hacking. Some really simple HTML and CSS will perfectly do.
Insights About Insights – And How I Fixed What Its Author Couldn’t
Somewhere between its version 0.4 and my WordPress update to 2.7, the Insights plugin stopped working for me. At least, it stopped working on my hosted blog. But it still worked on my local test server.
And when I say “It stopped working”, I really mean it. No matter what search mode I selected, be it “Images”, or “Videos”, or anything, it always showed me search results from my blog only. [toc class=toc-right]
Weird stuff indeed…
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On Presidential Pedestals And Crazy Controversies
Once upon a time, I wrote an article called “Obama’s SEO Counterstrike“. It was written out of a twofold motivation: Mr. Obama’s (then-current) high-quality speeches, his rhetorical skills, and his extraordinary expressive power, which stood in strong contrast to the average, highly uninspired language frequently found on the Internet – a phenomenon I dislike, and which I see worsened by the seemingly omnipresent SEO madness.
The article remained unnoticed for a long time (Sigh! Why oh why nobody seems to share, or care about, my personal opinions? ;-)), or at least without any feedback. Until recently. Read more >>
