Blake Imeson

A recent WordPress project required having a recent posts widget that each link was styled differently with CSS based on what category the post came from. A bit of a jargon loaded sentence I admit. Basically, if a “recent post” link in this widget was from the “Tools” category (for instance) then it could be [...]

This is a wicked quick way to add the necessary MX records to your site so that you can use Google Apps for Domains. This is probably only useful and worth the effort if you are like me and create dozens of these setups for clients. Here is where you can download Texter. Here are [...]

I recently got the idea to have all my external links to Wikipedia have a little “W” icon next to them in order to indicate that the links went to Wikipedia. The solution I came up with is to use some CSS and Regular Expressions to automatically add the image to any URLs that have http://en.wikipedia.org/ [...]

A client needed to import her RSS feed into a MailChimp campaign but the image wasn’t showing up. Here is how I finally got it to work. MediaRSS You first need to make sure the feed (yoursite.com/feed usually) is correctly bringing in the first image. I used a plugin called wpRichFeeds (view plugin author site) which [...]

Ever wanted to see how prices for an item on Amazon have changed over time? Eh, maybe not but a new Chrome Extension does just that. It is called theTracktor and here is a screenshot to show what it does: I installed it because I am going to be buying my second Canon Powershot (Great [...]

If you have accidentally changed the WordPress Site address in General Settings and now cannot access your site, this post is for you. Inspired by this Smashing post, What Is The Worst Design or Programming Mistake You’ve Ever Made?, I decided to share mine and hope that this post can be my “Iceberg, dead ahead!” cry. [...]

I recently had a client who needed to send me a lot of pictures and misc. files for a website build. It would have been cumbersome to email them all and thankfully I came across this marvelous solution from this post:  Allow Anyone To Upload Files To a Folder in Your Dropbox Account. Major props [...]

I just got the newest Firefox flavor, 4.0b2. If you want to enable using incompatible extensions, plugins, addons, etc… then you can just download this plugin for checking/reporting compatibility which will let you run addons that have yet to be updated. Enjoy!

Since we started our web development and web strategy company, LimeCuda, we have been trying out different ways of invoicing clients and doing accounting online. I have tried at least a dozen and am getting close to finding the perfect solution. I decided to throw them out to you all and see if there are [...]

I came across a bug in WordPress 3.0 with the wonderful Redirection plugin. When you create a new post/page it will somehow add a redirect that makes the home page redirect to the new post/page. What happens is that it creates a redirect automatically in the Modified posts group. Tools>>Redirection>>Groups>>Modified posts Just delete the redirect [...]