I have noticed a lot of plugins over the years lack the ability to totally uninstall files. What I mean by totally uninstalling is that when you use your WordPress admin panel to delete the files, it does not always take away the database tables that were installed in the beginning. A couple I can
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Tutorial: Cufon Text Replacement Without A Plugin in WordPress
Cufón fonts is a jquery script written to help webmasters change the font on their site. This is done without using the CSS @fontface trick or even loading the font file to your own server/ shared hosting web space. Now, there is a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Repository called WP Cufon that does this,
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Validation And WAI-ARIA
For those who are W3 warriors, web standard is important. However, for those validating each page, you will run into a validation error on your comments.php with aria-required=’true’. This is the code chunk where it is found in comments.php: <?php if ($req) echo "aria-required=’true’"; ?> This refers to an WAI-ARIA Primer, which is basically an
[Continue Reading...]Plugins Are Great, But Not Always the Solution
For those who are in love with plugins, that is fine, but they are not always the solution. Some of those plugins are bulky and not just for the files, but the database request connections they produce. For some web hosts, they crack down hard on people who use more resources than allotted, and that
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Plugin Review: Google Analyticator
The Google Analyticator plugin is design to be used in WordPress blogs to allow your Google Analytics to pick up the stats of your blog. The plugin is written by Ronald Heft. The convenience of this plugin is that you do not have to end up inserting the Google Analytics code manually. This plugin does
[Continue Reading...]Can Your Static Site Be Converted to WordPress?
I always have people that want a blog added to their site find it shocking that they can have their entire static site on WordPress. The problem is that a lot of people who say they want to use WordPress and are new users, are intimidated by being able to maintain their site. Sometimes the
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