By @edent · php widget WordPress · 2 comments · 400 words
If your WordPress site has lots of plugins, it's sometimes difficult to keep track of what is manipulating your content. Ever wondered what priority all your various actions and filters have? This is a widget which will show you which actions are registered to your blog's hooks, and their priority order. It looks like this: […]
Continue reading →By @edent · css HTML Web Development · 4 comments · 300 words · read ~140 times.
I am a bear of very little brains sometimes. I had a site which, for various boring reasons, was printing a <style> element in the middle of the HTML's body. Because <style> is a metadata element, it should only appear within the <head> element. This is OK: <!doctype html> <html> <head> <style> a { color: […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML schema.org semantic web · 7 comments · 650 words · read ~1,872 times.
I'm a little bit obsessed with the idea of Semantic markup. I want the words that I write to be understood my humans and machines. Imagine this piece of code: print( "Hello, world!" ) Is that code example written in Python? C++? Basic? Go? Perhaps you're familiar enough with every programming language to tell - […]
Continue reading →By @edent · jetpack markdown php WordPress · 350 words · read ~103 times.
A scrap of code which I hope helps you. Problem You installed the WordPress JetPack plugin and wrote all your blog posts in Markdown. Now you want to remove JetPack or replace it with a better Markdown parser. You turn off JetPack's "Write posts or pages in plain-text Markdown syntax". You click edit on a […]
Continue reading →By @edent · api twitter WordPress · 5 comments · 650 words · read ~1,003 times.
I logged into Twitter using a fresh account last week. No followers, no preferences set. The default experience was an unending slurry of racism and porn. I don't care to use Twitter any more. Whatever good that was there is now drowned in a cess-pit of violent filth. I still have a lot of Tweets […]
Continue reading →By @edent · chair ergonomic review · 7 comments · 400 words · read ~243 times.
Sitting down, eh? What's that all about? You bend your knees and just hope something is there to catch you as you fall! So, the good folks at Flexispot have sent me their latest chair to review. Just like most modern office chairs, it is fully adjustable. But, rather than having a a set of […]
Continue reading →By @edent · review theatre · 300 words · read ~446 times.
Unless someone invents time travel, this is probably the closest you'll get to experiencing Janis Joplin live on stage. Jukebox musicals have a variety of viable routes to success. You either do a Mama Mia / We Will Rock You and just spin a weak story around the tunes - or you do a straight […]
Continue reading →By @edent · Book Review Sci Fi · 2 comments · 250 words
Turns out, you can just relive your childhood for £2.99 on eBay! I was exactly the right age when this book came out, and I was the perfect target audience. A boy in a sleepy suburb finds a mysterious device which allows him to understand every language. Could it be… Aliens?!?!?! It's all biking to […]
Continue reading →By @edent · api blogging twitter · 3 comments · 650 words · read ~579 times.
I logged into Twitter using a fresh account last week. No followers, no preferences set. The default experience was an unending slurry of racism and porn. I don't care to use Twitter any more. Whatever good that was there is now drowned in a cess-pit of violent filth. I still have a lot of Tweets […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML Open Source php · 250 words
Dan Q very kindly shared his script to make WordPress do good HTML. But I couldn't get it working. Looking at the HTML it was spitting out, the meta generator said it was HTML Tidy version 5.6.0. That's quite old! I confirmed this by running: echo tidy_get_release(); Which spat out 2017/11/25. Aha! There are a […]
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