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Rethinking responsive design
I was happy to discover the compendium of responsive website design methods and techniques, wrapped in single large presentation by Andy Clarke. It is published at SpeakerDeck.
This is a full day long workshop worth taking.
Some of my recent projects needs revisiting in this light. And, by the way – TwentyEleven theme and its siblings are responsive enough.
The Widget Logic and is_home() solution
Sometimes you want to have a conditional widget to appear on your front page and your front page is not a blog as per your WordPress setup. Ok, you fire up Widget Logic, you checked wp_reset_query fix, you tried to include is_home() statement, does not work, you tried is_front_page (), same thing, you stuck.
You googled 1hr in a row and found many threads with similar problem, bad repeatability of the bug. But it exists! Your widget does not appear on front page! WTF!! I can tell you, there could be worse. In my case it appeared on OS X version of Safari, but never appeared on Windows browsers. You know – this is a clue, man!
Switch off your cache plugin and check your front page. If your widget is there – see, switch it back.
Hope I saved you some time 
The difference between WP Theme and Framework
WordPress theme is like a house. WP Framework is like a plant that can produce houses to your specification.
Testing micro-payments
What a tiny thing – Tinypass for WordPress, but it seems working only for standard setups. There are questions to this plugin yet to be answered.
UPD: Micropayment paywalls are not an option for me yet. I do not like one step in their workflow – user has to upload his money first and they do not give change.
/it seems TinyPass does not work for WP setups from directory other than root. Am I mistaken?/
How to add php mcrypt support on CentOS
The default php53 packages set on CentOS repo does not contain mcrypt support. To get this library working for your web server you can take one of two ways. Either build php53 mcrypt.so extension yourself, there is a short guide for that. Or go the lazy way:
1) Add EPEL repo to your repositories list.
2) Install the mcrypt module:
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yum install php53-mcrypt.x86_64 |
3) Edit your php.ini, and add extension support
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extension=mcrypt.so |
4) Restart web server.
Mcrypt support is needed if you want to implement micro payments on your WordPress blog. Tinypass micro payments system is born to power micro stocks and self-hosted publishers.
Downgrading Lion back to Snow Leopard and back again
» For a bit tutorial how to downgrade Lion back to Snow Leopard OS X please mind that Snow Leopard install erases your partition. Backup before you do. A simple tip if you have enough space: repartition your drive, make 2nd partition for Snow Leopard, install it there. I had no space, so I had to restore user data from backup.
Since the office can’t longer bear Ready NAS NV+ hangs and network outages invoked by accidental Lion OS X “casts of death”, I am forced to downgrade Lion. And it is indeed painful.
I urge everyone not to use a machine “updated” to Lion together with ReadyNAS NV+ in one network. Even with 4.1.8 software it has severe problems. For now there is no 100% cure.
UPD: Fresh Lion install from scratch was painful as well, but it seems solved the problem. Something evil still lurks, however, in printing drivers for HP and Samsung. Unfortunately I lack knowledge to debug their tricks.
UPD2: Yay! @chirpah pointed right. Enabling jumbo frames on ReadyNAS NV+ solved the puzzle.
How to force Spotlight search to index PHP files
Besides many other problems in Lion OS X, this one bugged me especially hard. After upgrading the main workstation to Lion I made a very unpleasant discovery. Spotlight was not able to search within source code. A relevant mdi plugin, that was shipped with the previous version of Xcode mysteriously vanished. Yes, it became unavailable.
But fortunately, you still have RichText.mdimporter and you can modify its info.plist to do the job of indexing contents of your source code files on Lion OS X. How to do that.
1) Locate /System/Library/Spotlight and the RichText.mdimporter file.
2) The easiest way – Terminal
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sudo nano /System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter/Contents/Info.plist |
3) Add strings for text file types you want to index in Apple UTI notation into dict array, like:
For PHP source files:
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<string>public.php-script</string> |
For JS source files:
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<string>com.netscape.javascript-source</string> |
And so on in the fashion of Apple Uniform Type Identifyers (UTI).
Here is a small list of UTI you may need.
And here is what Apple has to say about UTIs.
Save what you have edited.
3) Reindex your hard drive and enjoy your Spotlight search back again.
WP 3.3.1 Custom Post Types does not work?
After upgrade to 3.3.1 certain users may experience problems with their custom post type posts. If you experience 404 on every request to your old CPTs, go to General/Settings/Permalinks once. If your .htaccess file is writeable by server – that’ll be enough. WP will flush your permalinks and CPTs will be back again. If not – check whether .htaccess file in your WP root directory is writeable.
Also if you face problem like errors with reference to get_data(), it is quite possible that your theme is using RSS parsing somewhere. Remove the theme temporarily, allow WP 3.3.1 to upgrade database, return theme back, it should work now.