Hackadelic on February 11th, 2010

Brands. They are everywhere. Cars, electronics, sportswear… Even food. In every-day life, wherever a product is publicly visible, the manufacturers take care their brand is visible, too. When we drive our car, we showcase their brand. When we carry a newly bought computer home, we showcase their brand on the package. Heck, where I live, [...]

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Hackadelic on January 14th, 2010

Yesterday I’ve posted about the pros and cons of basing WordPress plugin functionality on JavaScript. Now Ted has written a follow up article responding to mine, from which I’ve got the slight impression he might have mistaken my post for a critique of his plugin, which it definitely wasn’t meant to be. Besides, there are [...]

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Hackadelic on January 13th, 2010

This post elaborates on the sense and nonsense of technology choices for a WordPress plugin implementation. It compares two diametrically different technological foundations, PHP vs JavaScript, for WordPress plugins.1

Of course, every WordPress plugin will ultimately contain at least some administrative portions of PHP code in order to hook into WordPress. I’m referring to the [...]

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URL shortening, and URL shortener services, are evolving rapidly into a real hype. And while they do make sense with Twitter (due to their 140 characters per tweet limitation), they are not all that harmless from a SEO perspective.

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Hackadelic on October 30th, 2009

Ever needed a list of your plugins for pasting it into an email or a document? Or into an (Excel or Word or OpenOffice) table? I did, and with all the plugins I have installed, I concluded that writing it all down manually would seriously suck.

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Cheerio, dear performance-conscious WordPress user. I present you the continuously evolving, streamlined WordPress Tweaks Bundle, and its accompanying WordPress Tweaks Composer online tool.
Read about it at the WordPress Tweaks homepage, or about the technical background of it in the rest of this post.

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Hackadelic on October 5th, 2009

This is almost scary! Week 2 is nearly over and still not a single spam comment in the queue!

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Hackadelic on October 1st, 2009

For a week or so I’ve had a spam blocker utility in place that simply rocks the casbah. Yessss! I had only 3 (!) spam entries in my spam queue this morning! The only 3 in the entire week!
Guess who cooked up this thing! Yepp! It was me!

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Hackadelic on September 25th, 2009

Some time ago I installed spam blocker software to help me manage the tons of spam I’ve been getting. Meanwhile, I have revised my choice of spam blocker, tried another one, and I’m giving up that one, too. Here is the story…

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/* accordion content styling: */
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width: 39em; /* skip this if you don’t need a width limitation */
}
/* accordion title/button styling: */
ul.portfolio a.hackadelic-sliderButton {
width: 39em; /* skip this if you don’t need a width limitation */
height: 24px; /* skip this if you don’t need [...]

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