Magento Community Edition is one of the best open source shopping carts, supposedly. My clients like it, I don’t. I think it’s clumsy to manage, the admin panel is ill thought out, there’s no drag’n’drop interface and it regularly crashes with Internal Server 500 Errors when updated. But this post is about fixing the error … Read more
No one can escape Google’s relentless tweaks to catch spam and build search result accuracy. No one! Not even WPMU and JournalXtra. Panda, Penguin, Parrot… Okay, I made the last one up but the point is that Google is screwing up. When Penguin was released, WPMU’s traffic dropped from over 8,000 daily visits to under … Read more
Just a few lines of code in a child theme’s functions.php file is all you need to add a new widget area anywhere within your Genesis powered WordPress site. Genesis uses ‘hooks’ to make it easy to latch code into the theme. A visual guide to Genesis hooks is available here. To add a new … Read more
A very quick PHP script for detecting browser/device and OS agent strings from the HTTP User Agent variable. This is not 100% reliable because surfers and bots sometimes hide or falsify the user agent string so please use with caution. Browser and OS Detection Script This script detects whether the OS/Device is Linux, MacOS, iPad, … Read more
Adding additional navigation menus to Genesis themes is easy. This method creates custom navigation menus that you can customize as you would any other WordPress custom menu by visiting Appearance > Menus. We use a two-step method: Create a custom nav file Register the custom nav file in your child theme’s functions.php file By repeating … Read more
Every time I upgrade Linux. I end up without Skype video support. Every time!!! It’s unbelievable. Why can’t Skype make an app that provides out-of-the-box video support for Linux. Anyway, because I keep forgetting how to get my webcam to work with Skype on Linux, I thought I’d write about it here so I always … Read more