I usually reserve most of my blacklisting content for Perishable Press, but after posting about using WordPress’ built-in tools to stop comment spam, several DiW readers have asked about a good custom blacklist that may be used for the “Comment Moderation” and/or “Comment Blacklist” features in the WordPress “Discussion Settings” screen. Over the years, I have built up an extensive custom blacklist of terms that has proven quite effective at keeping spam and other garbage out of the comments section, even without using any anti-spam plugins such as Akismet. It’s strictly plug-n-play, and should help protect your site (and reputation) against all sorts of malicious nonsense. So without further ado..
This page in the codex has a particularly interesting infographic that shows a flowchart of how WordPress chooses which template file it is going to use to render the page. For example, did you know if you have a published page with “contact” as the slug, it will look for and use page-contact.php automatically?
By now, everyone has heard of jQuery. It’s a framework that makes JavaScript development much easier, and has become massively popular for adding JavaScript functionality to websites.
In this post, we’ve picked out 50 of the best scripts we know of and talked about why they rock. They can help in just about any aspect of a website, so enjoy!
Some would read the phrase ‘email marketing’ and grimace in distaste. But it doesn’t have to be that way. When used tastefully, email newsletters can add a personal touch to the persona of your company. You can summarize the content of your blog, give teasers into what your company is working on, or simply share stories about the experiences of your team. Any one of these types of content can make your users feel closer to your organization — I know this from my own personal experience with the companies that I admire.
The majority of browser vendors are introducing offline web application functionality within HTML5. It allows an online application to work even if the user loses or disconnects their internet connection. For example, you would be able to compose a message in your webmail client even if you couldn’t find a wi-fi hotspot.
The example provided in this post works in Firefox 3.x. It works to some extent in other browsers — including IE8. However, implementations and feature sets differ. Offline technologies are in a state of flux, so I couldn’t recommend using this code in a production environment.
It’s becoming more and more common for web sites and applications to provide different layouts dependent upon the user’s window size, or resolution. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, ranging from CSS to JavaScript solutions.
In this video quick tip, we’ll learn how laughably simple it is to do this with a touch of jQuery, and the resize() method.
In this article I’ll show you some quick and easy ways of instantly boosting your client’s website credibility. This will help your client run a better website, sell more online or receive more leads. Either way, you’ll be adding an extremely simple and effective skill set that your clients will appreciate.
We are making a sleek feed widget, that will fetch any feed and display it in your blog sidebar. You can set it up to show the latest posts from the different categories of your blog, your latest stumbles, or even people mentioning you on twitter.
CodeIgniter is becoming well known for its power as a PHP based web application framework, but it’s not often that we see examples of it being used for anything else. Today we’ll learn how we can use CodeIgniter to create a RESTful API for your existing web applications, and demonstrate how to interact with your own API or other RESTful web-services, such as Facebook and Twitter.
Got a job? Great! The layoff sword spared and screwed you at the same time. Just because your co-workers went away doesn’t mean their workloads did. On top of your own responsibilities, you’re now wearing many hats, possibly a few wigs, and hopefully hip, sensible shoes that say, “I’m sassy, yet you’ll respect me in the morning.”
In any other circumstance, this would give you just cause to march into your boss’s office and ask for a compensation adjustment. The reality breakdown: for most organizations, the money isn’t there. Cash may be king, but it’s currently a king in exile. Ok, hold on. It’s not all bad news. Don’t leave and start Googling the next random thought that pops into your head. There are other things you can request in lieu of a raise.
