Author: underblob

Using CryptX in WP Template

Separating the images from content using strip_tags in a WordPress Template to control the page layout. Using the CryptX plugin to encrypt mailto and email addresses so they won’t get picked up by spam bots. After installing the plugin, you can call the cryptx function directly from the Template to apply the encryption:

if ( function_exists ( 'cryptx' ) ) :
	cryptx ( $content, $text, $css, $echo );
endif;

$content is the string to encrypt.
$text is the string to replace the text inside the alt attribute of the <a> or <img> tags.
$css is the css class to assign to the link.
$echo is set to false to return the result in a variable, true to echo the result to the browser.

Links

CryptX plugin page: wordpress.org/cryptx
CryptX author’s site: weber-nrw.de
PHP function to strip HTML and PHP tags: php.net/strip-tags

DW Extension: EnityConverter

Converting seven back issues of a magazine for online publication, I had to copy and paste the text from the designer’s PDFs into my HTML documents for formatting (Acrobat has “Export as HTML with CSS” but it was über-Frankenstein, creating more work than doing it by hand… export as txt is much better). Of course all of the special characters like em-dash, smart quotes, etc. had to be converted to HTML entites: &mdash; &ldquo; etc. Frustrated with the ongoing find and replace in Dreamweaver, Google found me this time-saving relic in the Adobe Exchange that will auto-convert everything to HTML entities in code view:

www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/entityconverter/

AS2 Disable Underlying Buttons

Create a new movie clip to block the content underneath and apply the following ActionScript:

mc_target.onRollOver = function () {};
mc_target.useHandCursor = false;

Register the empty function so Flash will treat the movie clip like a giant button so that none of the underlying buttons will be active. Add the useHandCursor property to keep the pointer hand from showing up.

Finding Lattitude and Longitude on Google Maps

Here is an easy little trick to extrapolate the latitude and longitude coordinates from Google Maps. The coordinates reflect the center of the map so make sure that you have your location centered first. Once you have it all lined up, paste this code into the address bar of your browser:

javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));

Brilliant!

Links

www.tech-recipes.com/google_maps_get_latitude_longitude_values/

Adding <head> Files in a WordPress Template

Problem: want to create a WP Template that uses a different CSS file from the Theme CSS so that the HTML structure remains the same but the Template layout will be different, dictated by the CSS. It works to put a <link> to the CSS in the Template HTML but then it gets rendered in <body> instead of the <head>, which is a little wonky. How to get the CSS into the <head>?

Solution: Insert this PHP code into the beginning of your Template file before the get_header() call…

<?php
function mytemplate_head () {

echo ‘<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”‘ . get_bloginfo(‘template_directory’) . ‘/mytemplate.css” />’;

}
add_action ( ‘wp_head’, ‘mytemplate_head’ );
?>

Links

get_bloginfo
add_action
get_header

Twitter Post Updates to your Facebook-ness

So after you login to your Facebook profile, if you click on the “Applications” tab in the bottom left corner of the screen on the bottom control bar, you see this page full of applications. Although none of them are flesh-eating reptiles, you can find a way to add your Titter updates to your Facebook shizzle. If you are still reading this, you may understand…

  • Facebook -> Applications -> Browse Applications
  • At the “Search Applications” field at the top right, enter “Twitter”
  • Add the top result application entitled “Twitter”
  • Add it, give your Twitter login, allow to access your profile, add the box, etc. money, to the from world is full of champagne and bacon.
  • Congrats, you survived.