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Add a class to the first and last items of a WordPress menu

If you’re using the WordPress dynamic menus, you can use the following code to add first-menu-item and last-menu-item to the appropriate menu items. Add the following to your theme’s functions.php: function add_first_and_last($output) { $output = preg_replace(‘/class=”menu-item/’, ‘class=”first-menu-item menu-item’, $output, 1); $output = substr_replace($output, ‘class=”last-menu-item menu-item’, strripos($output, ‘class=”menu-item’), strlen(‘class=”menu-item’)); return $output; } add_filter(‘wp_nav_menu’, ‘add_first_and_last’); Via Kuroi …

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Weekly link dump

OHNY: TWA Flight Center A beautiful Flickr gallery showing the Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center. A far cry from the largely functional and brutal terminals in most airports. Folding Text Another simple Markdown-aware text editor with a few neat tricks. It has a focus mode that lets you view only the section on which you’re …

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Validating Canadian Postal Codes with the JQuery Validation Plugin

If you’re using the JQuery Validation Plugin, you can use the following code snippet to validate a Canadian postal code: jQuery.validator.addMethod(“cdnPostal”, function(postal, element) { return this.optional(element) || postal.match(/[a-zA-Z][0-9][a-zA-Z](-| |)[0-9][a-zA-Z][0-9]/); }, “Please specify a valid postal code.”); Then use the following rule: $(“#form”).validate({ rules: { postal_code: { required: true, cdnPostal: true } } });