The Quest For Best Spam Blocker Software Continues
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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WordPress CSS Accordion Menu With Sliding Notes In 3 Easy Steps
This is a CSS accordion menu tutorial that explains how to implement the accordion effect in your WordPress page or post using CSS and the Sliding Notes plugin.
Making Money With WordPress Plugins – Mixing the GNU License With Others
From time to time the topic “Mixing GPL software with non-GPL software” crosses my www ways, and I often find there is a lot of misunderstanding about what GPL open source is about (as opposed to other open source software license models). This is not surprising, given that the GPL is probably one of the most complex software licenses around. Time to clarify some fundamentals…
TOC Malfunction Rumors Disproved Again
In my last post I disproved that SEO Table Of Contents fails to function on a very long post/page with more than 12,500 characters. As it turned out, it wasn’t characters that the issuer meant, but words. So I re-checked with a much longer post.
TOC Malfunction Rumors Disproved
There have been rumors that SEO Table Of Contents wouldn’t work properly on long pages with more than 12,500 characters. I just made a functional page with 29,837 (!) characters and a TOC, wich proves the rumors wrong.
Check it out, see for yourself: the TOC Test With Looong Text.
Sliding Notes 1.6 – “W3C Tribute”
Here is yet another update to Sliding Notes. Besides various code improvements, it establishes conformity to the W3C XHTML 1.0 standard (important for sites that show the valid XHTML badge).
Hackadelic Discreet Text Widget
Discreet Text Widget is a generic lightweight solution to the Empty Widget Problem, and enables you to safely use SEO Table Of Contents in the sidebar in any theme. It can be used as a replacement for the default text widget, when it’s content is automatically delivered by a shortcode, and you want to hide the widget altogether when the content is empty.
It can be used in just the same way as the default WordPress text widget. Nothing more to say. 🙂
Solving The Empty Widget Problem
When you want to display a TOC box in your sidebar using a text widget and the toc shortcode, and there are no headings to display, you effectively get an empty widget. An ugly affair sometimes… Here is what you can do about it.
TOC Boxes Is SEO Table Of Contents
Yes, here is another release of the plugin formerly known as TOC Boxes, bringing some cool changes along.
Go get it at wordpress.org. It’s worth upgrading. 🙂
Placing a TOC In The Sidebar Revisited – First Aid For Naughty Themes
Some time ago, I wrote a tip about placing a TOC in the side bar. As it now turns out, this tip does not work on all themes. Here’s why, and what you can do about it.
