I have seen a number of plugins that will allow you to manage every single detail of your Google AdSense ads and Smart Ads is not one of them. Its managing capabilities are minimalistic, perhaps even too much so for the novice user. However, it excels in a different area: smart ad placement. And that [...]
One of the disadvantages of a chronologically organised blog is that older posts tend to get burried under newer ones. A shame when your posts do not have a limited shelf life. A similar problem occurs when you write posts that belong to a series of directly related posts, it is difficult for the reader [...]
WordPress comes out of the box with RSS functionality. Great if you need it, but it lacks an easy off-switch if you don’t. A rare oversight, let’s fix it!
Disable feed creation
WordPress actually supports a number of different feed layouts, controlled by the actions do_feed_rdf, do_feed_rss, do_feed_rss2 & do_feed_atom. These actions can be removed, the easiest [...]
never saw the point in using content management systems. Afterall, I could build one from scratch that would do exactly what I wanted. And it would be way cooler! And I did, until I realised that working a full-time programming job and more of the same in all of my spare time is perhaps a [...]
In my previous article I picked WP-Syntax as my plugin of choice for syntax highlighting. At the time of writing I was using version 0.7. The plugin is not perfect: there are a few issues that need to be addressed. I will do so in this article.
Using the visual editor messes up your code snippets
In [...]
One tool us programmers cannot do without is an editor with proper syntax highlighting features. As I will be regularly pasting code snippets on this website, I needed a plugin to do the same thing online to aid in readability. I’d like it to support multiple programming languages, show line numbers and allow me to [...]