Hackadelic on April 23rd, 2009

Alea iacta est. The dice has been cast. I’m giving up on WPMU. Definitely. I will be using Virtual Multiblog instead. Definitely.

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Hackadelic on April 19th, 2009

After a couple of days (or hours, effectively) of experimenting with WordPress MU, the insights I gained about it are sobering at best. Here is my preliminary summary about WPMU.

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Hackadelic on April 16th, 2009

I plan on doing some fundamental changes to my site. Most importantly, I’ll switch away from WordPress… [A moment of unbearable silence drills though the audience, a moment that seems to extend to eternity... Will he stop developing those great WordPress plugins? Do we have to abstain from his fabulous, though sometimes unconventional, even weird [...]

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Hackadelic on April 14th, 2009

Sometimes you want a message or paragraph in your blog to stand out. Here’s a simple method how to do that easily and consistently throughout your blog.

jQuery(‘input[name=box]‘).change(function(){
var p = jQuery(‘#demo-box’);
p.toggleClass(this.value);
jQuery(‘#box-code’).text(”);
});

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Hackadelic on April 12th, 2009

Hackadelic TOC Boxes work in the sidebar as well. Out of the box. You can see a live demo on my blog by going to a post’s single view: The TOC box appears at the top of the left sidebar.1 This post here is a good example.
How I did it?

At least it’s at the top [...]

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Hackadelic on April 8th, 2009

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.

jQuery(function($){
$(‘input[type=radio][name=tocClassRadio]‘).change(function(){
var toc = $(‘.toc.demo-toc’);
$(‘input[type=radio][name=tocClassRadio]‘).each(function(index, elem){
[...]

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Hackadelic on March 30th, 2009

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 [...]

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Hackadelic on March 25th, 2009

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 [...]

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Hackadelic on March 25th, 2009

I just went through my spam queue (as I had a couple of false positives lately), and I was very surprise to discover a comment in it that escapes the usual spam schema. Instead of the usual rubbish with little to no sense at all, this one could actually make sense, at least on some [...]

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Hackadelic on March 18th, 2009

Way back in a past post , I wrote about my hesitation to implement features that wouldn’t be accessible via desktop blogging clients, which I find preferable to web-based editors.
Here are some of the benefits of a desktop blogging client:

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