A quick how-to guide to setting up XAMPP on a Windows computer: set alternate folders/domains/subdirectories, enable “missing” extensions, and let it play nicely with VisualStudio’s local IIS.
Archive for the ‘Web Programming’ Category
WordPress – Custom Registration Page
19 Jan , 2012
Wordpress plugin to customize the user registration page with additional validated fields. Hooks right into existing parts of the registration process, so it should work with other plugins like BuddyPress and Prospress.
WordPress Debugging – “Doing It Wrong” warnings
16 Jan , 2012
Wordpress 3.3 introduced some not-so-helpful warnings for when you’re not “doing it right”. But they gave us a hook (`doing_it_wrong_run`) to make things more helpful – here we discuss a simple trick to tell us exactly where we went wrong.
WordPress 3.3 Shortcode Issue
19 Dec , 2011
If you find yourself scratching your head over why your shortcodes have stopped working in WordPress 3.3, we’ve discovered a funny quirk. Granted, this fix may actually be the right way to call all shortcodes, but previously we’ve been able to lazily call it directly from our functions.php file and no one cared. But, now [...]