Great WordPress Plugins
WordPress is certainly one of the most feature rich and user friendly publishing platforms available today. At the same time it is loved for its openness, extendability and great open source community....
View ArticleFrom web developer to designer…
A great developer, but not so much a designer. It seems that over the years working as a web developer all my my focus went into just that… developing. I read online though that there are many people...
View ArticleTinyMCE: Remove ‘path’ from status bar, Disable resizing, or remove the...
While working on a project, I have been playing with TinyMCE’s configuration options to suit my needs. I was looking to disable the status bar from showing as I was going for a simplistic set up....
View ArticleTinyMCE: Simple config AND stripping formatting upon paste
Just a quick post to share my configuration options to get TinyMCE looking simple as possible for those times you don’t need 4 whole toolbars worth of buttons. This will also strip all formatting when...
View ArticleBrilliant HTML/CSS3 form, input and validation styles
Below are a few excellent form designs I stumbled across while looking for inspiration. I will be adding more here as I stumble across them. Where possible, there are links to the tutorials or articles...
View ArticlePHP function for Resizing and/or Cropping images with GD
There are a number of classes or functions available on the internet for resizing or cropping images, but none of them suited me for one reason or another… so here is my function. It supports JPG, PNG...
View ArticleMy pastebin site is back online
After 2 years of the site being offline and the code hidden away on an old development machine, I decided to dig it up and put it online again. You can paste code at: http://paste.atomiku.com/. It has...
View ArticlejQuery HTML5 Placeholder Input Fallback (for browsers that do not support the...
Hey, placeholder is a really useful HTML5 feature but unfortunately not all browsers support it. So here is a small jQuery script that will replicate placeholder functionality for older browsers. Read...
View ArticleContact Form Hijacking – How to secure your PHP contact forms from header...
When coding contact forms in PHP, most people don’t realize that unless they’ve taken the necessary measures, it will probably be vulnerable to header injections. This basically means that the attacker...
View ArticleEasiest way to get Lat/Long GPS coordinates from Google Maps API with PHP
So I built a properties rental website and they wanted to show a marker on a google map for where the property was. Well before I could start plotting markers I needed to get the coordinates from the...
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