Category Archives: WordPress

How to Override the Default Date Picker in Pods CMS

I love Pods. It makes building content management systems simple in WordPress, and I find it to be an invaluable plugin.
Of course, Pods is a rapidly developing plugin with a lot of ground to cover given its broad aims. Unfortunately, this means that some things haven’t been completely refined yet, and one of [...]

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Running WordPress and Symfony on the same server

Recently I started to learn the very cool symfony framework. I’ve been running through their Practical Symfony tutorial, which has been great.
Symfony is an MVC framework, and for security everything but the files that are directly accessed by the browser (stylesheets and javascript, for example) are kept outside of the web root directory. [...]

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WordPress IE6 Detection and Targeted CSS

Today I needed to fix up a few things on a new site I’m publishing due mainly to the Internet Explorer 6 PNG transparency issue. Previously I’ve had success with at least one of the fixes provided by Adam Erstelle’s HITS- IE6 PNGFix plugin. Unfortunately, none of them really did the trick this [...]

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Thesis Navigation Menu Parent/Ancestor Highlighting

I’ve been using the Thesis WordPress Theme for a while now (no, not on this site yet), and I think it’s great. I’ll probably write a full review of it eventually.
One annoyance that I’ve had is that Thesis doesn’t fully support highlighting parent/ancestor links in the navigation menu when a child page is selected. [...]

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