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how-to tar.gz a directory

By: jez

18-10-2007

6 comments

Do you know the following situation- You are downloading thousands of (small) files from your ftp (server) and it is annoyingly slow and time consuming… If you have shell access to your server, e.g. you can use Putty, logon and cd to your file directory (often httpdocs or www) and execute the following code:

tar -pczf fatfile.tar.gz *

This will create a tar.hz archive with the name of fatfile.tar.gz
It will include all files of the current directory and all sub-directories.

Now you can easily download this file instead of many small files (as experienced before).
If you don’t have shell access (look- even Dreamhost offers this feature for $6,95/month),
you might consider getting your own Virtual Private Server as I did.

Time spent designing a theme

By: jez

15-10-2007

Wordpress

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Click the image to view the full-version

Source: i-marco.nl
Found: weebee.ro

WordPress Themeviewer FIXED!

By: jez

02-09-2007

Wordpress

2 comments

Hooray for the WordPress Themeviewer at themes.wordpress.net , ~~it has been fixed and now I can finally upload all my fixed themes. More to come tomorrow evening! Got some themes stashed~~ Only bugs are fixed, uploading and updating is still scheduled to a later date. Sigh..

Technorati Authority [1111]

By: jez

31-08-2007

Wordpress

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Just by cheer coincedence I found out that h4x3d.com’s Technorati Authority is currently 1,111.

Crazy number… So why not favorite my blog to stay in touch with me and updates to my site?

So in case Technorati is not broken again, you can check it out yourself (only one click away)

SEO: WordPress Search with Permalink structure

By: jez

31-08-2007

code, Wordpress

2 comments

Ever wondered how you could transfer any searches from ?s=TERM to /search/TERM , then read below or visit Alex King’s approach.

This is too good to not report on, so for personal archiving reasons, I have put Alex’ Code below:

WordPress Themeviewer dead-alive?

By: jez

30-08-2007

Wordpress

0 comments

You surely all know the WordPress Themeviewer over at themes.wordpress.net. It is a great resource (personally I think the best) for free WordPress Themes on the Internet to date.

To many peoples dismiss the WordPress Themeviewer is in a frozen state. For months designers could not update their themes or upload new ones – but as every coin has two sides, this has also been a great chance for designers to re-think their work and stash themes, updates and more for day X when the WordPress Themeviewer will once again be open to the public.

But why is the WordPress Themeviewer actually locked?
- Spam in form of Sponsored Themes had taken over the WordPress Themeviewer, so people decided it was time to clean out the Themeviewer’s database and add some nifty cool features to it. Matt, the WordPress Matt, posted some interesting figures about Sponsored Themes and spam-infected themes that had already been removed: in the past weeks over 100′s of themes have been reported and removed. (2000 themes roughly)

That was two and a half months ago. What’s up now? A quickÂ update on the situation would be really cool, since not even people on the WordPress Support forums have a clue.

Not completely related, but interestingly observed: The amount of theme submissions to Weblogtoolscollection per day has gone down from 14 to 17 per day to three to four. Now guess how many themes were sponsored and spammy.. ~~(just calculate the difference)Â~~

Localized buttons for Rainbow Feather (v2)

By: jez

29-08-2007

Wordpress

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Many dutch and belgium people asked me to customize their rainbow feather installs.
Most wanted buttons in their native tongue,
so here is a start with readon.png and readon2.png.

For the other graphics (like recently, monthly archives, login etc)
I can only encourage you to do it either your own or stick to my english ones till I can free up some more time to create them.

Quick guide to wetfloor graphics as used in my Rainbow Feather (v2) theme:

Font: Georgia
Fontsize: 20pt SHARP

duplicate the layer,
press ctrl+t,
set height to -100% (flips it upside down),
select layer mask,
do gradient
save.

enjoy :)

Show code on wordpress css

By: jez

22-08-2007

code

1 comment

Hi, one of the people commenting here asked for a way of displaying code in one of my themes.
For ages I have been using the following code and it worked flawless in connection with the code markup plugin for wordpress:


.primary pre#hack {
		white-space: pre-wrap;		/* css-3 */
		white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important;		/* Mozilla, since 1999 */
		white-space: -pre-wrap;		/* Opera 4-6 */
		white-space: -o-pre-wrap;	/* Opera 7 */
		word-wrap: break-word;		/* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
}

.primary pre {
  overflow: auto;
  cursor:pointer;
  position:relative;
}

.primary pre code {
  display: block;
  margin:10px;
  padding:4px;
  border:1px solid #ddd;
  background:#F5F5F5;
  font:10px Lucida Sans Typewriter, Courier, monospace;
}

.primary can be changed to what you need, e.g. .post or .entry

Usage within WordPress
Simply go to the “code” editor of WordPress and paste your code.
Surround it by a

 and  tag and add the id of "hack" to the
.
(
 stuff here  
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                Rainbow Feather theme version 2
                
                    By: jez
                    21-08-2007
                    Noteworthy, Wordpress
		 11 comments
            	
                
            
            
                Hello everyone, since my vacations are coming to an end soon, I thought it would be a good idea to release a bugfixed version of my Rainbow Feather theme. The old version had some nasty bugs in Internet Explorer 6. Until yesterday I wasn’t really able to test it, but when traveling north to one of my mates via train I had ten hours of time to fix things up. If the themeviewer will ever be open to updates (again) I will be posting the update there too of course, but for now the bugfixed version is available on the original Rainbow Feather theme page.
A live demo is available at wordpress.h4x3d.com 

Valid CSS

Now featuring categories!

Valid xhtml (just be sure to keep it that way by adding alt tags to your images)

Cropped title of WordPress recent items list (cut off after 30 chars)

I did not know that the w3c site got a facelift – it looks great!
Thanks: 
Massive thanks to Burkhard â€œcypherâ€ Mudrick of Spielraumdesign.com for helping me to fix up things. He worked on a beautiful mod of my Rainbow Feather theme, which is soon to be released to the English audiance (currently it is all in German). Take a peek at his version of Rainbow Feather on my preview page.

Thanks to teknobites for including me on their ten most unique themes 
Thanks to clazh for featuring me on his favourite theme list
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                Want no border around input hidden field with css?
                
                    By: jez
                    15-08-2007
                    code
		 2 comments
            	
                
            
            
                Today I worked on a template for another client and run into some strange bug. Well not really a bug, but more of an annoyance that took ten minutes to fix. In the lower part of a site near the commenting box two rectangle border showed up. Obviously this was caused by the input field and its CSS.
Here is the old css (excerpt)

input { border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px 6px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); }

and here a quick screencap of what the problem looked like:


I applied this quick CSS hack to my code to make the border disappear:

input[type="hidden"] { border: 0; padding: 0; margin: 0; background: white; }

(marked green in screencap)


Voila, the rectangles are gone. No more annoying borders around hidden input fields with CSS.


I hope this helped anyone. You can do a similar trick with the input property “submit” if you want to apply different CSS attributes to your input submit form only.
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