The place where commands are typed instead of clicked: The Linux Shell You will see it called shell, terminal, console, command-line, tty, tty session and many other things but, really, it is just a black screen with a text prompt that lets you run non graphical programs (scripts) by typing their name at the prompt … Read more
Dear readers, over the next few months you will see a few changes to the structure of JournalXtra. This is not the first time we have said this but we now feel that this is the right time for us to conduct the changes we have planned during 2013. Over the coming days, weeks and … Read more
..and forgetting IE7 and IE8 do not support media queries for responsive design… Agghhhh!!! Internet Explorer is not used on many screens with a width below 980 pixels so responsive design is not my top priority for IE users. For personal sites I do very few Internet Explorer compatibility tests. Why should I waste hours … Read more
This snippet creates a shortcode to display the Unix Epoch time. Most likely reason you might use this plugin is to create DoubleClick cache busting links. I wrote a WordPress plugin for this same purpose. The plugin contains the same code snippet. It is up to you whether you add this snippet to functions.php or … Read more
Alexa is a web analytics company of the Amazon brand. The website statistics published by Alexa are extrapolations from data gathered from browsing habits and other sources. These stats can be used to compare and evaluate websites or – more frequently – to show off a website’s global and local rank. The official widget scripts for … Read more
Many features that can be added to WordPress with a few lines of code are not worth wrapping into a plugin. Instead of writing a plugin for short snippets, we tend to paste the code snippets into a theme file called functions.php. JournalXtra’s new QuickSnips category is the place to be to grab simple WordPress … Read more