In some wordpress themes, youtube embeds just show up as a black screen. As discussed here, the solution is adding a transparency setting to the iframe’s src. However, the solution in that thread only works if the src is right next to the frameborder. Updated code below if you are running into this problem New… Read more »
Posts Tagged: wordpress
How to Remove or Change the way WordPress Links to Images in Posts
By default, WordPress will link directly to an image in the category or post view. In a project I was working on today I wanted to change that. On the category view I wanted the image just to link to the post, and in the post, I didn’t want a link at all. Useful trick… Read more »
Getting Started with Varnish Edge Side Includes and WordPress
There are a lot of cases on blogs where once you write the post, the cache for that page doesn’t really have to be updated all that often. Comments can be powered by Disqus so you don’t need to bust the cache every time someone comments. If you make a change to a post, it’s… Read more »
The top 10 best WordPress plugins to get up and running with everything you need.
These are the top 10 best wordpress plugins I use to quickly get a wordpress blog up and running with everything I need. I used these last week to get a new site going in about 2 hours. Leave some time for analytics to catch up and you are all set. Google Analyticator harnesses the power… Read more »
gpowered.net is now timbroder.com
Hi all, some of you may have noticed this site is no longer on the gpowered.net domain. I’ve been wanting to move onto wordpress for a while now and also do some additional writing beyond code stuffs which would be outside of the scope of gpowered. I also unfortunately (or fortunately because I love my… Read more »
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
I’m currently in the process of migrating gpowerd.net over to this domain and onto wordpress. SyntaxHighlighter has been upgraded quite a bit since I last wrote about it. I came across a great plugin to handle the code highlighting for me on wordpress. I love the plugin, didn’t have to go into the wordpress template…. Read more »
WordPress Plugin: Displaying your Google Reader RSS subscriptions
I’ve been meaning to write this code for a while, and I really wanted to take a stab at writing a wordpress plugin so here it goes. The following takes in Google user credentials, and allows the user to display what RSS feeds they subscribe to on their wordpress blog Example: The RSS that I… Read more »
How to get brightkite photos into an RSS feed (to post to a blog)
I started another blog so I have a place to rant about comics or movies or whatever else I need to get off my chest, and I needed an excuse to play with wordpress (something I’ve been wanting to do for a while). I plan on posting how I did certain things on that blog… Read more »
