A quickie on how to display a node’s current category sub-categories as a menu in Wordpress.

As a developer using wordpress for all sorts of needs, you’ll be often faced with this question: should a particular functionality be implemented as an external plugin, as a function inside your theme’s functions.php or as a widget?

How to customize the Wordpress Image Upload screen

jqUploader, the jquery uploader widget of choice if you need a progress bar that just works has received some love. It now works with jQuery 1.4+. A mighty “debug” option has also been added for those times when something is going weird with the plugin and you just don’t know why.

CSS Media Queries are a great new feature to manage the screen space. If you don’t know what CSS Media queries are, read this handy tutorial on CSS Media Queries. I’m planning to use media queries on a next project which will use the full available screen space as a core conceptual element, so i [...]

I just found a nice tool to have several internet explorer versions running in parallel: the Internet Explorer Collection.

It happened me twice and maybe it happened to you (hence this post): i would install a plugin (like Relevanssi or Search Unleashed), which would break WordPress or not function like i want it, desactivate it, at which point WordPress goes berseck. everytime i would edit or add a post or page, i would get [...]

In the context of the website redesign of the School of Computer Graphic Design that i teach in, i had the need to display on the frontpage a link to the latest grandchild of a page. It didn’t turn out as easy as i thought, but i somehow managed it. Here is how.

This quote by Mitch Hedberg strikes me as a good metaphor for graceful degradation / progressive enhancement. I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. – Mitch Hedberg [...]