[Wordpress] – Update image links when moving site

Posted by Tony under Developers Corner

I needed to move a customer’s domain to a new location and that meant updating the image links, since wordpress uses absolute URLs.  Fortunately there is an easy fix for this, MySQL to the rescue!

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[JQuery] Remove one select option based on a different select option

Posted by Tony under Developers Corner

JQuery is simply amazing. I am really impressed with this javascript framework. My previous framework of choice was Scriptaculous and I was happy with it, but it always seemed limiting. Since switching to JQuery over about 6 months ago I have been pleasantly surprised. For example, I had to create a [...]

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[Wordpress] redefining the default calendar

Posted by Tony under Developers Corner

So I had a customer that needed a very interesting change in their default calendar.  It’s really two parts and I’ll show you how I overcame both.  Normally I would write a plugin myself, but being that the customer is trying to stick to a budget I decided to find one, unfortunately it only did [...]

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[Ruby on Rails] Found a cool svn rake task

Posted by Tony under Developers Corner

So SVN has you down because you always have to remove /tmp/, /log/, /db/ and reconfiguring your database.yml file? These are especially tedious in group settings. But never fear here is a great rake task to setup your projects svn properties so you won’t have to worry about it any more.

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[Wordpress] Fatal Error in file.php

Posted by Tony under Developers Corner

When trying to use automatic installation and updating of plugins you get a blank screen and your logs show an error such as this:

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PHP Fatal error: Cannot use assign-op operators with overloaded objects nor string offsets in /somedirectory/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 688, referer: http://somedomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php

, then most likely your or your host moved your site without [...]

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[Wordpress] Cimy Header Image Rotator IE 7 flicker fix

Posted by Tony under Developers Corner

Okay so as promised here is the fix for the IE7 flicker fix for Cimy Header Image Rotator.   Find line #193 and replace that entire javascript section with this one:

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