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Processing Custom Post Type Content in WordPress
I’m using WordPress custom post types in a project right now, which requires a number of new content sections that are similar to the_post(). In the WP back end, the new content panels are created using add_meta_box() with the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor so that HTML can easily be added to the content. However, since I…
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Changing Credit Card Expiration Date Fields in Shopp
The question was asked in the Shopp Community Forums about how to change the Credit Card expiration date fields from input boxes to drop down menus. The default Shopp template has them set as text boxes, which works fine, but we can improve on this and make it easier to use. If you’re using Shopp’s…
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Google Web Fonts with Hawaiian Diacritics
Google Web Fonts is a pretty awesome service, considering it’s a free alternative to the larger font collections of TypeKit (also an awesome service). Embedded web fonts are great, but the Hawaii web design has a dilemma. A lot of place names use Hawaiian diacritics (ÄÄ“Ä«ÅūĀĒŌŪĪ) and any time you use the language on a…
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A day without email
I flubbed my DNS records on Friday, thinking that I was getting ready to move my work site from Dreamhost to MediaTemple (since I’ve been having email delivery problems on Dreamhost; too many spammers on their shared servers). So I switched my name servers on Friday afternoon without the proper MX records… Long story short;…
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.htaccess forcing larger file uploads
So this is something that I should have memorized by now, but always find myself searching Google whenever I need it. MediaTemple’s Grid Servers have a built in 2mb limit on file uploads, which is small when you’re trying to upload photos from new multi-megapixel cameras, or even just large PDFs. The solution is to…
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.htaccess forcing www in urls
I’m starting to use this site as a resource for myself, because I use this stuff all the time, but not enough to commit it fully to memory. That said, something that’s come up a lot recently is forcing www. in front of all urls on a site. Since all of my servers are Apache,…