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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TOC Boxes 1.5.1 Release
I am releasing a new version of TOC Boxes. It fixes two subtle but annoying bugs.
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.
Weird stuff indeed…
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TOC Boxes 1.5 With Auto-Insertion
Finally I got around to finish this new major release of my TOC Boxes plugin, with a bunch of long wanted new features.
Actually, there are so many new features and improvements, that I decided it deserved to fast-forward to version number 1.5. Hence the “unofficial” name of the release: Warp 3.
Overall, the plugin now provides a bunch of settings, partly related to existing, partly to new features.
Download it as usually at wordpress.org, and find out in the rest of this post about the exciting new features and improvements. Read more >>
Recent Guest Comments Widget – Who Needs It?
I implemented a slight variation of the WordPress built-in recent comments widget that only shows comments from people other than me, so that it’s in conjunction with my “I wrote” / “You wrote” sidebar titles. It’s already in place here on my blog.
The current implementation is very specific to my site, and would need further work to make it generally usable – work that I’d be ready to invest if there’s enough public interest.
Drop me a note if you think this widget would be useful to you, and you would like to see it download-ready on wordpress.org.
TOC Boxes 1.2.1 Resolves Conflict With Nofollow Reciprocity
The other day I installed the Nofollow Reciprocity plugin… and Bang! – another plugin conflict saw the light of day: On multipage posts, exactly at the second page the TOC boxes got entirely messed up.
Since I do not really use the multipage feature, I only noticed today, while working on, and testing,1 new TOC Boxes features. It took me a while to figure out that there is no bug in the TOC Boxes code, but a conflict stemming from somewhere else. Once I realized this though, it wasn’t hard to guess where the conflict comes from. After deactivating “Nofollow Reciprocity”, everything went back to normal.
- Aye, I test all the way long while I develop!
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Sliding Notes 1.4.1 Released
A minor update of Sliding Notes is out.
The release provides a workaround for a weird cross-browser issue on some themes, like the one reported by Magnus.
Download it as usually at wordpress.org.
TOC Boxes 1.2 With Multipage Support Released
I’m proud to announce that, thanks to Sascha’s hint, TOC-Boxes now support multi-page posts.
Download it as usual at wordpress.org.
