Tutorial/How-To, WordPress »

In the past few weeks I’ve had a few people email me and ask me how I get the numbering to show up on my comments. It’s really more of a PHP question then a WordPress question, but it’s quite simple. There may be plugins which do this for you, but anytime I can have a simple fix and avoid the overhead of a plugin, I’m happy. The following tutorials is for someone with no PHP experience and basic HTML/CSS knowledge. Here’s how to number your comments in three steps.

Example:

Step 1

Locate and open your theme’s comments.php file. Theme files are found in wp-content/themes/themename/. In your comments.php file you’ll be looking for the following code:

1

<?php if ($comments) : ?>

Directly after that…

Featured, Useful Tools, Videos, WordPress »

I’m happy to announce the release of RSSless, a new WordPress plugin. RSSless is a WordPress plugin which allows you to hide specific content in your posts from RSS readers. This is helpful for bloggers who embed videos, images, or other content which doesn’t display or embed correctly in RSS readers. Rather then having RSS readers get blank content, you can simply replace it with customizable message, such as “Please view the original article to watch this video.”

RSSless uses WordPress’ built in short code API. Simply surround the content you want to hide from RSS readers with the [rssless] [/rssless] short code tags.

I created RSSless because of a specific need I had. Since it seemed to…

Useful Tools »

Mac only - I spent part of this week working on transferring some family videos to DVD. I have a pre-professional grade HD video camera that obviously shoots in widescreen. After working on it and sending it to iDVD for a quick menu and then burning it, I noticed that the widescreen video doesn’t get letterboxed on standard (4:3) TVs as I expected. Rather, the video gets cropped (much to my disappointment).

Luckily I came across myDVDEdit, a tool which lets you modify the contents of an unprotected DVD image on your computer. By following these directions I was able to get myDVDEdit to force my DVD player to letterbox my widescreen videos on standard TVs. It’s…

General »

Have you ever come across a website or comment that was written in another language that you wished you could read? Well, if you’re anything like me you typically have no idea what language the site is written in. Luckily Google Translate will automatically detect the language of a phrase or website and translate it for you.

Just paste the URL or the phrase to translate, select auto-detect, and you can read the page in your native language. Trust me, though, that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to understand it!

Videos »

Review of Apprise, a new RSS reader. How does it stack up? Check out my first ever screencast.

WordPress »

I just released version 1.3 of Admin Favicon, a WordPress plugin which adds a custom favicon to the WordPress administrative backend. It’s a minor release that makes the favicon link XHTML valid. Admin Favicon is fully functional with WordPress versions 2.3+, including 2.6.

Visit it’s official page to download the latest version.