Free CSS Formatter and Organizer

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Web designers, coders of the world!

Are you tired of spending hours sifting through your CSS documents to find the right piece of code to edit?

Tired of organizing, again and again, your CSS for easier editing, only to have to re-organize and re-organize future versions?

Tired of wondering what organizational standard CSS code should have?

Tired of wasting time?

Then you might want to try the FREE and simple CSS Formatter at cssformatter.com. With this easy to use web application, you can organize your CSS code with the click of a button.

• Organize alphabetically.
• Organize in the order that the CSS is referenced in the HTML.
• Organize neatly, indenting sub-selectors and removing comments.
• And more!

All free at cssformatter.com!

Just copy and paste your code, hit “sort CSS,” and presto! Neatly organized, deliciously clean and well-formatted code.

The tool will ALWAYS remain free. No gimmicks. No strings attached. Just a little something by coders, for coders. Enjoy!

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Display More Than 15 Posts with WordPress Recent Posts Widget

Monday, December 13th, 2010

The recent posts widget that comes default with every installation of WordPress allows you to display the hyper-linked titles of the most recent posts from a widget. Although (in widget configuration), you can set any number of posts to display, only a maximum of 15 posts can be displayed.

This can be a real pain for WordPress users who want to use the recent posts widget to display links to all of their posts in a widgetized area.

To eliminate the cap on posts to display, you’ll need to remove two lines of code in default-widgets.php, contained in the wp-includes folder.

At lines 542 and 543, simply remove:

else >if ( $number > 15 )
$number = 15;

If you don’t have code editing software that displays line numbers, simply search for ’15′ in default-widgets.php to find the above lines of code.

Once that’s done, you’ll be able to set the recent posts widget to display any number of posts.

Tags: php, wordpress hack, wordpress help
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Moving WordPress to a New Server

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Moving your WordPress installation to another server is just as easy as installing it the first time. There are at least three ways you can do it:

1. Install a new version of WordPress (a fresh install) along with your custom themes and plugins on the new server.  Then import the old database from an XML file using the internal build-in import / export tool.
2. Download your old WordPress directory (which includes core files, themes, plugins, etc) and then upload it to your new directory via FTP. Then, on your old server, make a backup of your MySQL database with phpMyAdmin. On your new server, import the MySQL database with phpMyAdmin. You will need to edit your config.php file (in the root) to reflect any changes in database name and login info.
3. Any combination of the previous two methods.

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Tags: wordpress help, wordpress tutorials
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WordPress Custom Post Taxonomies

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Custom post taxonomies in WordPress are little different from post tags and categories. To borrow the words found in a reply to an inquiry email I sent to WordPress lead developer Mark Jaquith, “taxonomies are used to tie groups of posts (or any content type) together, and come with a URL structure to access them.”

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Tags: blog tags, wordpress custom taxonomies, wordpress customization, wordpress help, wordpress themes
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Kidblog.org: a free blogging platform for the elementary and middle school classroom

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Blogging is a means of self-expression that extends to nearly every social sphere — moms, entrepreneurs, soldiers, athletes – bloggers can be found in every walk of life, every niche, profession and people group. Everyone has something to learn or share in a blog community. It is that idea that makes blogging such an ideal method of learning for children.

Surely Matt Hardy, an elementary school teacher, had this in mind when he created Kidblog.org, a blogging platform exclusively for elementary and middle school students and teachers. The platform creates a safe and simple environment for students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community.

Below Hardy answers some general questions about his free blogging platform, which has seen explosive growth in the past few months.

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Tags: blog security, blogging platforms, security
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New study suggest blog post quantity trumps quality for online popularity

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Still believe all that hogwash about quality over quantity? According to a study presented at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference last Wednesday, bloggers who post frequently are much more “attractive” than infrequent posters, regardless of post quality.

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Tags: blogging psychology, blogging studies, content
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Yahoo to release a new style guide for web writing

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

If it’s one thing serious bloggers need, it’s an objective style book like what print publications have in The Associated Press Stylebook or The Chicago Manual of Style.

Is website one word or two? Is internet capitalized? Is it re-tweet or retweet?

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Tags: blog seo, content, styles, writing
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The Best Blogging Sites and Platforms | Top Blog Sites

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Starting a blog can be very easy considering all of the free blogging sites out there. However, choosing between all of the best blogging sites can seem a bit confusing, especially if you are a first time blogger. That is why I have taken the time, after much research and digging, to compile a list of the top 10 best blogging sites.

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Tags: blogging platforms
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