Taken from: http://sethstevenson.net/customize-the-wordpress-admin-menu-based-on-user-roles/ Important Note: This tutorial is an alternative which is untried but looks very interesting. WP Tuts – Customising Your WordPress Admin WordPress can be a powerful content management system but if you have multiple users often some can end up with permissions that you really wish they didn’t have. There are plenty of plugins that will let you customize user Full Article…
Automatic cPanel backup (domain & MySQL) with cron & PHP
OK, so I posed the question, and I found the answer. (Of course I had to find it myself, I just don’t have people who regularly read my posts and do research for me!) The situation is this: I use cPanel on my web hosting server. I use the cPanel backup tool to regularly backup my home Full Article…
How to Share an External Drive Between a Mac and a PC
Taken from: http://www.pcworld.com/article/250431/how_to_share_an_external_drive_between_a_mac_and_a_pc.html Want to use a single external drive with both a Mac and a Windows PC? Follow our guide to learn how to do it. Looking to share an external hard drive between a Mac and PC? The best way to do it is with a drive formatted as FAT32. Though this format has Full Article…
Fixing WordPress Upgrades & Plugin Installations with MAMP Pro Localhost
I do all of my WordPress development locally, and typically deploy that to a staging server, or sometimes a live server, using Beanstalk’s SVN deployment feature. I use a Mac for development, and MAMP Pro to run a localhost environment with multiple hosts (local.website1, localhost.website2, etc.). Occasionally I need to upgrade or install WordPress plugins Full Article…
PHP Browser and Platform detection scripts
This is a php mobile browser detect script: http://code.google.com/p/php-mobile-detect/ This is a php browser and platform detect script: http://chrisschuld.com/projects/browser-php-detecting-a-users-browser-from-php/
jQuery Show / Hide Plugin
Due to popular demand here’s a re-written version of the tutorial I wrote over a year ago on how to show and hide content using jQuery. After I first published the post I’ve had a lot of requests as to how you can show and hide multiple divs so I’ve written this plugin which does Full Article…
WP Admin Custom Post Type sort order
This is a function to do it easily: This might be better: http://scribu.net/wordpress/custom-sortable-columns.html
WordPress select menu navigation for mobile sites
The first option is to follow both of these untried tutorials: http://www.xldstudios.com/generating-select-menu-in-wordpress/ http://www.xldstudios.com/javascript-snippet-go-to-site-selected-in-drop-down-menu/ The second option is to try this amazing plugin. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dropdown-menus/
WordPress – Custom Taxonomy Breadcrumbs
Taken from: http://www.free-php.net/780/wordpress-custom-taxonomy-breadcrumbs/ While developing a theme that uses custom taxonomies and custom post types, I ran across the need to include breadcrumb navigation to the custom taxonomies. After a couple of days of searching around and not finding any real solutions, I ended up creating my own function to do it. Simply copy this to Full Article…