Take a look at this post for a list of useful “hidden” configuration settings for your WordPress installation.
I found some nice tricks that I’ve applied to my wp-config.php:
// Number of post revision to keep
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 3);
// Installation path and template path to reduce database queries
define('WP_HOME', 'http://your_site_url.com');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://your_wordpress_directory_url.com');
define('TEMPLATEPATH', '/absolute/path/to/wp-content/themes/active-theme');
define('STYLESHEETPATH', '/absolute/path/to/wp-content/themes/active-theme');
// Security keys to improve cookies encription
define('AUTH_KEY', 'randomKey');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'randomKey');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'randomKey');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'randomKey');via Digging Into WordPress.
30 June 2009 | No Comments » WordPress Tech
This is a simple tip that can help you reduce your style sheet size. Take a look at this CSS portion:
font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
line-height: 1.5em;
font-variant: uppercase;
All these properties can be condensed into a one row expression using this syntax:
font: fontSize/lineHeight weight style variant family;
See the example below:
font: 1.1em/1.5em bold italic uppercase Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;
Just remember that this syntax will only function if you specify both font-size and font-family.
22 June 2009 | No Comments » CSS font style Tech
A useful XSL template for removing leading zeros
<xsl:template name="removeLeadingZeros">
<xsl:param name="originalString"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="starts-with($originalString,'0')">
<xsl:call-template name="removeLeadingZeros">
<xsl:with-param name="originalString">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after($originalString,'0' )"/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$originalString"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>Just insert it into your XSL file and use it as usual:
<xsl:call-template name="removeLeadingZeros">
<xsl:with-param name="originalString" select="$myOriginalString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
22 June 2009 | 1 Comment » XML XSL XSL template Tech
A simple bash script that zips a folder and sets the archive name to the current date.
#!/bin/bash
# Archive name structure: ddMMYYYY_HHmmss.zip
archiveName=`date +%d%m%Y_%H%M%S`.zip
folderName=MyFolder
zip -r $archiveName $folderName
21 June 2009 | No Comments » backup bash Linux script zip Tech
A really good tutorial on building custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8.
Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8
20 June 2009 | No Comments » taxonomy tutorial WordPress Links
This simple method shows hot to write to text files using Java.
If the file exists it will append the new text to it, otherwise it creates a new file. This is achieved using the FileWriter class and its constructor:
public FileWriter(String fileName, boolean append) throws IOException
Constructs a FileWriter object given a file name with a boolean indicating whether or not to append the data written. JavaDoc.
public void writeToFile(String text, String filePath){
try {
File thisFile = new File(filePath);
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(
new FileWriter(filePath, thisFile.exists()));
writer.write( text );
writer.newLine();
writer.flush();
writer.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
18 June 2009 | No Comments » file FileWriter Java Text Tech