Monthly Archives: November 2010

Enable IIS to serve .woff and .svg files

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Eli Thompson

I needed this functionality, too. Here’s how to do it. Amplify’d from sebduggan.com By default, the MIME types in IIS 6 are configured to deliver EOT (as used by IE) and TTF files. But WOFF (Firefox) and SVG (iPhone, iPad … Continue reading →

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Stop WordPress from outputting the canonical link tag

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Eli Thompson

I had a page whose content varied depending on the query string parameters you gave it, so I definitely needed to remove the canonical tag. Amplify’d from pixelpunk.co.uk You can do this quite simply by adding the following to your … Continue reading →

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Turn on WP_DEBUG to have WordPress kick out error messages

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Eli Thompson

I’m troubleshooting a White Screen of Death (WSOD) problem in my project’s plug-in right now, so this is especially relevant. Amplify’d from codex.wordpress.org Eliminate PHP errors in your plugin. Add define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); to your wp-config.php file, try all of your … Continue reading →

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By default, get_posts only returns posts of type ‘post’

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Eli Thompson

The WordPress project I work on uses a custom post type of ‘Product’ because we use WordPress as an ecommerce solution. I was trying to get a list of those products, but get_posts refused to display them. After consulting the … Continue reading →

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Keep the feedback loop velocity high

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Eli Thompson

After working at large companies for so long, it’s refreshing to be able to take ideas directly to the CEO. It’s important to remember that he’s still the CEO, though, so ideas need to be thought out. Amplify’d from lyndit.com … Continue reading →

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Firefox Plugins I Use

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Eli Thompson

Firebug Best. Web. Development. Tool. Ever. Just install it. Firecookie This add on to Firebug allows you to view, manipulate, and delete cookies. This really should just be in Firebug, anyway. Screen Capture Elite Very nice screen shot tool. It … Continue reading →

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WordPress Plugins I Use

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Eli Thompson

Google Analytics For WordPress SyntaxHighlighter Evolved – Handles syntax highlighting for code blocks Akismet – The definitive anti-comment-spam tool for WordPress

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Moq can’t mock internal methods

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Eli Thompson

Today I was trying to mock a concrete class that had an internal method that I wanted to set the return value for. After much frustration, I discovered that (Google’s) Moq 4.0.10827.0 won’t intercept internal methods. Consider the code below, … Continue reading →

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How to get WP-Super-Cache working on WordPress MU

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Eli Thompson

(I know it’s not called MU anymore, but lets just roll with it.) At the time of this article I was working with: WP-Super-Cache version: 0.9.9.6 WordPress version: 3.0.1 I fought for over an hour trying to get WP-Super-Cache working … Continue reading →

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Learning PHP: ISSET() vs. IS_NULL()

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Eli Thompson

I found this little gem while looking into how to determine is a variable is usable; in my case, if it’s been set: http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-null.php#90782 claude dot pache at gmail dot com 09-May-2009 04:38 A small but important difference between “is_null” … Continue reading →

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