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How to remove mysterious blank lines in Dreamweaver

Owen — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:01:42 +0000

I don’t understand why it happens, but after uploading and downloading files, via ftp, occasionally blank lines appear every other line in my code. I do however understand how to get rid of them with Dreamweaver.

Using the Find and Replace function (Ctrl+F)

Making sure that ‘use regular expression’ is checked

Find

[\r\n]{2,}

Replace

\n

Then select ‘replace all’.

Output Page Variables

Owen — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:53:46 +0000

Output the variables of a particular WordPress page or post

echo ""; print_r($wp_query->query_vars); echo "

“;

Poweron.co.uk is now mobile friendly!

Owen — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:59:31 +0000

As more and more people are using their mobile phones to browse the internet, we decided to make Poweron.co.uk mobile friendly. The issues with our regular site on a mobile browser were layout, load times, user experience and general compatibility. In order to rectify this we have created a new WordPress theme for mobiles that will be condensed, light on graphics and file size, and most importantly, user friendly.

Theme Switcher

First we have to redirect web traffic that arrives at our website via mobile devices to the new theme. As is generally the case, there is already a plug-in for this function. WordPress mobile pack lets us select the new theme and automatically loads it for mobile traffic. It also lets us view the site with the mobile theme in any browser, which is handy for testing and/or development.

The New Theme

We bought a theme template with a simple layout, and then customised it by changing the tabs for navigating through our three main categories. Features include: a drop-down menu to show our main-page links; a twitter feed for our latest updates; and social-networking links in the footer. We changed the colour of the tabs to tie-in with the ‘mother’ website. Other changes include: less images; no slide-show; more ‘chunky’ links for touch screen devices; and less scripts.

Testing

New mobile theme

Our goal was not to have the theme work for every mobile device out there. Instead, our focus was to have it working well on the currently popular smartphone devices which have the majority of mobile web browsing. We concentrated on the iphone, devices running Android OS, the BlackBerry smartphones, and some of the Nokia devices. We don’t know what this new theme will look like on every mobile phone, and probably never will, however we can test a large number of them via Adobe Device Central. This program emulates the different mobile devices available and enables us to see what works and what (ahem) doesn’t.

So now what we have is a mobile-friendly website, with all the same content controlled from the one WordPress install.

Got a mobile? Try it out and let us know what you think.

Have you got a website that would benefit from a mobile-specific theme? Feel free to contact us – we would be happy to help.

Remove Buddypress Admin bar

Ben — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:44:23 +0000

define( 'BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR', false );

Call jquery in wordpress

Ben — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:43:04 +0000

1	wp_enqueue_script("jquery"); ?>

WordPress blogroll or links import and export

Ben — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:42:19 +0000

wp-links-opml.php if you put that after the site URL you can then save the code and import in to new site (using blogroll import) and it will bring in the blogroll

WordPress 3 Multisite Network

Ben — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:40:35 +0000

/** Sets up WordPress Network for multisite. */

1	define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

Remove WordPress Generator Meta

Ben — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:38:58 +0000

Add to the functions

1	remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');

Remove a category from the RSS feed

Ben — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:37:30 +0000

Add this to the function.php file:

 function myFeedExcluder($query) {
if ($query->is_feed) {
$query->set('cat','-143');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','myFeedExcluder');
?>