Sometimes, you need to upload a large file to your site, and the default 8mb limit in WordPress isn’t enough. I attempted to change my limit directly on my server, then in the .htaccess file and then in wp-config.php but neither change worked for me. Then I came across this little snippet by Word Impressed [...]

I have had a lot of requests to revisit and update my Add Logo to Admin WordPress plugin so today I sat down and went over the code. There have been quite a few changes in WordPress 3.3 so I had to make things a little different but the plugin is now compatible with the [...]

I have had a lot of requests to revisit and update my Add Logo to Admin WordPress plugin so today I sat down and went over the code. There have been quite a few changes in WordPress 3.3 so I had to make things a little different but the plugin is now compatible with the [...]

A while back I wrote a short tutorial entitled “A Clever and Safe Way to Display your Email Address” which explained how you could use CSS to safely display your email on a web page. That way still works well but if you’re using WordPress, you can take advantage of a function called antispambot() to [...]

I needed to figure out how to allow a user to use either their username or email address to log into WordPress. It took a bit of rooting around but the final piece of code ended up being pretty simple. function login_with_email_address($username) { $user = get_user_by_email($username); if(!empty($user->user_login)) $username = $user->user_login; return $username; } add_action('wp_authenticate','login_with_email_address'); Place [...]

Things have been pretty crazy over the last little while and I thought it would be a good idea to explain why I haven’t been updating the site as much as I should. My wife was pregnant and the home stretch ended up being a bit more demanding than we had hoped for so I [...]

The year is almost over and the holidays are coming closer, so I thought it would be a good time to package together some WordPress themes and offer people a great deal. For the month of December, you can now get Magazine Premium, Magazine Flow and Arturo all for only $99.99. That’s a savings of [...]

I was working with placeholder text for the input fields on a recent project and I needed to make sure that the text would appear in all browsers. I had to use a old technique that many of you might be familiar with:

I published a tutorial quite a while back called Simple Voting for WordPress with PHP and jQuery. It was not without its problems, and recently I needed to improve on it for a client, so I thought it would be a good idea to finally release an updated version. The original tutorial relied on an [...]

I know there are a few textarea word counter jQuery plugins out there already, but I felt like building my own since I wasn’t a fan of the ones that are available. Nothing new here but I did my best at making it as simple to use and efficient as possible. /** * jQuery.textareaCounter * [...]

I am working on a website for a horror film festival and created this image by splicing a few things together. Sadly, we won’t be using on the site but I thought it was cool enough that I should put it here so people can check it out. Feel free to download it and use [...]

I already wrote about this a while back in “How to Display an Author List with Avatars in WordPress” but I recently realized that it needed updating. There’s a better way of collecting and displaying all the information and you can also add a few variables to give you more control over the output. Let’s [...]

Yesterday PressWork launched a new theme in conjunction with Empire Avenue. The original design had a really nice shadow effect on the images and I wanted to make sure that I could code it using CSS3. The problem was, CSS3 inset shadows don’t work at all on images. The only way to get the effect [...]

A while back I worked on a site that required a hover effect where a black and white image faded into a color image. I wrote a tutorial called Creating a Mouseover Fade Effect with jQuery on the jQuery technique I used for the hover. That effect no longer requires jQuery since we can now [...]

There was a time when the only way to fade an element or image was by using JavaScript/jQuery (see Creating a Mouseover Fade Effect with jQuery). With CSS3, you can easily create a fade effect with nothing more than a little CSS. Let’s start with a text element: This is my text element that [...]