Last I tried, this trick no longer works as of 9/16/2012. Not sure when it stopped working. Click for an example. In your theme widget, add the socialvibe widget to your sidebar. Add the class “thickbox” in any of your links to an image. e.g. To use the gallery feature, use the same rel attribute… Continue reading WordPress.com lightbox/thickbox trick
I’ve upgraded to wordpress 2.3 mainly to use their new sidebar widget feature. I thought it will be overly cool to not have to rewrite the sidebar.php for every theme. However, I’d like to have different sidebars for different views. Like the sidebar for my index page would look different than the sidebar for my… Continue reading upgraded to wordpress 2.3
okie, i thought someone has figured it out by now. but when i asked on the wordpress board, i got no response. so i digged around and figured a hack for it. i noticed sometimes esp. on some pages, the smiley conversion does a poor job and converts the wrong text into smilies. it really… Continue reading disable wordpress smiley for a certain post/page
as you see, i’ve reinstalled dodos threaded comments hack for wp 2.0. feel free to test it out here. i’ve released the new version here. i can not provide much support due to my busy schedule. however for the next few days, if you try it and find obvious errors in the steps, i will… Continue reading dodos threaded comments for wp 2.0
moving pe is a big project. right now i’m only 30% of the way there. it was a pain moving all the database due to their sizes but i finally finished it. i’m taking my time to check out all the wonderful new features & looks that comes with wp 2.0. while browsing for potential… Continue reading moving pure-essence.net
OMG what a pain! yes i’ve already upgraded my domain to wp 1.5 and i spent the past 5 hours writing how to add the threaded comments back for v1.5. it’s easy for myself to add it back; i just kept my old index.php and my old wp-comments.php. if you want to do that, DO… Continue reading dodos threaded comments for wp 1.5
ok i guess when i wrote up my threaded comments hack, i did not include the feature where the comment author who you are replying to will get notified by email. hrm it’s just an update in your functions.php under wp-includes. here’s my code. you can replace your old wp_notify_postauthor function with it. like always.… Continue reading threaded comments notification
in addition to the previous post, i wrote a piece of code where you can add above in your wp-comments-post.php to have it delete unapproved comments that’s ___ days old i haven’t thoroughly tested this code. if you have problems, let me know. also here’s a script you can run to get rid of blank… Continue reading more for the ultimate comment idea
i really like skippy’s self comment moderation plugin. The basic idea is that if the user supplies a valid email address, and they check that email account, then the commenter is most likely not a spammer. altho not foolproof, i like it better than asking people entering a certain code. plus this way it does… Continue reading the ultimate comment idea
updated – old comments are deleted because i have improved my script. so far i haven’t seen any errors. feel free to test more check out my new code button in the comments field.. it actually replaces my other “better handle <code>” hack – test it out in the comments area by click on the… Continue reading you like my new code button?
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