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Faking Two Column Text

One of the many exciting features of CSS 3 is the ability to create columnar text. In this article I will show you a way to fake two column text with a little Javascript.

First off we need to stipulate that this hack will only work with textual information contained in HTML paragraph tags (<p></p>).

To use the script all you need to do is download the script and include it in the head of your document.

Preview Drafts Plugin 1.1

Introducing the Preview Drafts Plugin version 1.1. This little plugin will allow you preview any Post or Draft in your current theme. The post/draft MUST be saved, as a post or a draft, before you can preview it. I had released this plugin earlier, but never mentioned it here, so I decided to update it a bit.

Auto Links Discovery Plugin 0.1

This plugin will try to automatically fill in the information (title, description, URI's) of new sites you add to the WordPress Link Manager. Simply enter in the URI, click go, and the plugin will try to find a RSS feed. From the RSS feed it will get the Site Name, Description, URI, and RSS URI. If it can't find the RSS feed, then it will just get the HTML title of the site.

WordPress is not PHP

There have many concerns and question about the template system used in WordPress. Mostly the concerns are with n00bs and the complications of PHP. “I want to change this and that, but don't know PHP”. I hear this a lot. But the thing is, you don't need to know PHP to change the Templates in WordPress.

The Template System

Lets' start with “the Loop” as we call it. Probably the most confusing part of the Template for a non-programmer. The Loop looks like this:

More Smilies Plugin 1.2

I wrote this plug-in because I didn't like the default WordPress smilies :-) , and thought it would be great if we could have "packages" of smilies that you could choose from. So here it is, a plug-in that allows you to choose between different sets of smilies. Hopefully there will be many people that do up some great smilies packages. 8-)