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 [...]

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Hackadelic on July 17th, 2009

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.

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Hackadelic on July 17th, 2009

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.

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Hackadelic on July 12th, 2009

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).

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Hackadelic on July 9th, 2009

Discreet Text Widget is a generic lightweight solution to the , 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 [...]

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Hackadelic on July 8th, 2009

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.

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Hackadelic on July 1st, 2009

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.

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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.

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Hackadelic on June 11th, 2009

A brand new release of Sliding Notes is out. Code name: “Accordion Virtuoso”.
Main novelty: The addition of an awesome feature which enables emulation of accordion-style behavior like this one over here.
Go get it at wordpress.org, it sure is worth upgrading.

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Hackadelic on May 29th, 2009

A quick note to Hackadelic Widget Voodoo users:
Here is a maintenance release that fixes an issue related to some rare widgets with uncommon HTML layout, where titles were collapsed as well. Get it as usual at wordpress.org.

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