15th September 2009

Using WP-Syntax and the visual editor

Many of the blog posts I write tend to be about web development related topics and will often include a number of code snippets. My current choice of syntax highlighter is WP-Syntax, which supports a wide range of popular languages and has the ability to also include line numbers.

The problem with using this plug-in is that the WordPress WYSIWYG Editor (TinyMCE), will remove any tags and attributes that it believes to be invalid according to it’s configuration. As two of the attributes used by this plug-in are custom attributes (escaped/line) they are removed, causing some unexpected output. Read More

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6th September 2009

SMTP server settings for outgoing email using WAMP

If you’re running WAMP and need the ability to use the PHP mail function to send outgoing e-mails, then you will need to modify the php.ini settings.

As WAMP itself does not have an SMTP server, the easiest option is to replace the SMTP address with the name of the SMTP server or IP Address with one that you can use. Read More

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22nd August 2009

WP – Enable read more links for pages

When listing pages using the_loop(), the latest version of WordPress (2.8.4) does not allow for a “Read more…” link to be appended to a list of pages using the_content() along with the <!–more–> quicktag.

Although it wasn’t immediately obvious to me, read more links can be enabled by over-riding the global $more variable and setting it to false, before looping through the result set, for example: Read More

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Hi, my name is Steve and this is my blog. I am a web developer based in the United Kingdom. I like (X)HTML, CSS, Flash, ActionScript3, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, [paste trendy words here] and Mapping APIs.

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