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While table cells in HTML may look like block elements, they’re not, and thus you can’t absolutely position things inside them. I’ve been using a script that I’ve had for ages to get around this. The script would add a helper div around the contents of every cell that was relatively positioned. The benefit of …
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MacLife has an article on the scriptable images processing systems, or sips. sips is very powerful, but it also has a really simple syntax. To duplicate my one-liner for imageworsener, all you would need is: sips –resampleHeight 33 *.png
I’m often asked how add share links without using javascript (for example, in an HTML email or in a PDF). Here are the URLs for the most common ones: Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url={articleUrl}&description={articleTitle} LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url={articleUrl}&title={articleTitle}&summary={articleSummary}&source={articleSource} Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100&p[title]={articleTitle}&p[summary]={articleSummary}&p[url]={articleUrl} Twitter: http://twitter.com/share?text={articleSummary}&url={articleUrl} Google+: https://plus.google.com/share?url={articleUrl} Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u={articleUrl}&t={articleTitle} Mail to: mailto:?subject={articleTitle}&body={articleSummary}%20(full%20article%20at%20{articleUrl}) Replace {articleUrl}, {articleTitle}, and {articleSummary} with the appropriate content for your …
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I used to use imagemagick for resizing in the command line, but imageworsener has a much cleaner syntax. Use this to resize the height all pngs to 33 pixels: for i in $( ls *.png); do imagew -height 33 $i re_$i; done If you’re on Mac OS X, you can install imageworsener through Homebrew.
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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