A coworker just pulled me over to help with a javascript issue, and I noticed on his screen that some of our input elements looked totally whacked out in Firefox. Not so in -webkit. I dug around a bit and found this handy reset:
input::-moz-focus-inner,
button::-moz-focus-inner { padding:0; border:0; }
Now the buttons are happy in both browsers! Hooray!
At my talk on Saturday, someone asked if you could move the position of the CheezCAP menu on your dashboard. The answer is yes! CheezCAP uses the add_menu_page() function, which allows you to specify the menu order using an integer. I’ve added this functionality to the repository in addition to adding support for custom icons. Relevant code and comments below.
$cap_menu_position = 99; // This value represents the order in the dashboard menu that the CheezCap menu will display in. Larger numbers push it further down. $cap_icon_url = ""; // OPTIONAL: Path to a custom icon for the CheezCap menu item. ex. $cap_icon_url = WP_CONTENT_URL . '/your-theme-name/images/awesomeicon.png'; Image size should be around 20px x 20px.
Thanks to everyone who came out for my presentation on CheezCAP! It was great fun, even though I was incredibly nervous. I felt like it went pretty well for my first time speaking about WordPress.
I’ve uploaded my slides to SlideShare, since that seems like the cool thing to do. If you have any questions, you can ask on twitter ( @trademark ), comment on this post or send me an email at the address on the last slide.
CheezCAP is hosted on GitHub and can be downloaded here. Please download it and check it out, or even fork the code! We’d love to see your ideas!
So, I’m going to be making my public speaking (at least as far as WordPress goes) debut this weekend at WordCamp: Seattle! I’ll be talking about a portion of our theme that we released as a plugin, called CheezCap. It creates a custom control panel, that allows you to insert text, code, toggles and other stuff into your theme’s source code for easy control over features, dynamic content, etc. I’m pretty excited about WordCamp, and nervous about speaking, but I get to put LOLcats into my slides so it’s all good.
If you’re in the area, you should definitely check out the event, I think there are still some tickets left. Check out the other speakers too, because they are all awesome! Hope to see you there
This morning when I got to the office, my Twitter feed was buzzing about JetPack, a new service from Automattic. I installed it here and so far it is awesome. Every little part, even the step in which it asks you to authorize with a WordPress.com account. Excellent work and congratulations to everyone at Automattic who made this happen.
The plugin package is totally modular. Pick and choose what you want. If you deactivate a portion, the UI for the navigation is totally responsive (and sexy), and you can immediately tell at a glance what is active and what is inactive. I really wish this would have been around when I was running ~30 self-hosted WordPress sites. It would have made life much easier.
EDIT: Beau Lebens just provided some more information about JetPack here. So cool that it’s included in 1-Click installs!
Whether it’s for your start-up or fun, Sticker Mule is your one-stop site for sticky perfection. Their products boast supreme print quality, exact PMS color matching and precise design-cutting. Just send them your artwork, pick a design, and they’ll do the rest. It’s that easy.
Saw this on dribbble today. I have a thing for stickers, so of course I bought some. No idea what I’ll make yet.
Along with the announcement today of new MacBook Pro models, Apple also updated their feeature page for Mac OS X Lion and released a developer preview. I never really paid attention to the initial announcement of the nwe features, or at least none of them really stuck with me.
Looking over them again, there’s some exciting stuff going on. It makes sense that Apple is trying to unify their Mobile and desktop OSes, and bringing some of the UX experience from the iPad makes sense, especially when you consider how awesome Mac trackpads are. I think right now, he things that I’m most excited about are (in no particular order) :
I’m all for adding more gestures to the lineup, and resume seems like it will make updating less of a hassle. I barely ever restart my computer, and when I do it can be a pain to close everything. Mail 5 looks like it might get me back into the realm of using an e-mail client instead of a web client. Personally, I never have any issues with moving files around, but AirDrop brings zero-config to that world, and when they work, those types of systems are awesome.
Waypoints is a small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element.
Found a link to this awesome looking plugin from @noel on Twitter. Sounds incredibly useful.
Hi. My name is Toby McKes. I am currently a WordPress front-end developer for Cheezburger, Inc., the creators of FAIL Blog, I Can Has Cheezburger? and a few other sites you might have heard of.
My primary purpose for reviving this blog is to be able to talk about WordPress stuff and to… well, blog. I feel like I would be making a huge mistake if I continued to neglect having a WordPress blog I could call my own. I’ll probably test some themes and plugins I’m working on here as well. Who knows what could happen. I plan mostly to talk about things that come up in the course of my daily dealings with WordPress, LOLCats and the rest of the randomness that makes up a typical day.
That’s about all I have to say for now. Stay tuned.
