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Wordpress Pages in jQuery Accordion

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

As usual I googled immensely to find someone doing it the way I thought it should be done, and didn’t find quite the right thing. I did find a good starting point from Wes Ray, jQuery Accordion for Wordpress. There were a few features that weren’t working, and then some that I found necessary to add.

Integrating Galleria with Wordpress

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

This is a simple way to get this working, but in all my googling I didn’t come across a write-up. Here is how I got the beautiful jQuery Galleria to replace the default WordPress gallery. This is my ideal solution, and I am actively using it as a Photography CMS for a client’s portfolio.

Wordpress Plugins we Often Use

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

On every Wordpress site we draft up, we’ll need to extend the basic functionality. It’s a great system, but it isn’t intended to provide a full website out of the box. We use these free plugins to kick it up a notch, hopefully you’ll find one of our magic bullets useful.

Programs that make Working Remotely Easy

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Drew and I live 2 1/2 hours apart as the plane flies, or 20 hours as the car drives. This means we need smooth communication, and the surrounding technology we’ve come to use is key to that.

Fixing the Twitpic Badge

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

A modified version of this trick to get badges to run after the page loads. A bit hacky, but it works wonders.

We need to specify a place for the code to be injected. This div is what twitpic’s java looks for, and will be where your badge is written.

Mootools smooth scrolling gallery

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Update: Mootools is now on 1.2, with changes that break this script. What really needs updating is the scroller.js, you can download it from mootools, or here from us. Just update to the current version of mootools, and replace your existing scroller.js with the new one.