I was working on a theme for the image gallery Plogger when an old problem cropped up again. I was adding links to thumbnail images, and had given the anchor a padding of 3 pixels and a 1 pixel border so that the link formed a sort of picture frame around the image. [...]

This post illustrates a method of centering the thumbnails in the album view of the PHP image gallery Plogger. The method automatically adjusts for thumbnails of varying widths and pages containing less than a full row of images.
This method is implemented in the Plogger 3 theme: Air, but it should work in any theme [...]

My clients and I have been receiving increasing amounts of spam sent through our own contact forms. Not being a spammer myself, I’m left to speculate on how one sends spam through a webmail form, but I’ve come up with two ways of preventing it from happening. Both of these methods involve editing [...]

Air is a full-featured Plogger 3 stand alone theme that takes visual cues from the Yahoo! TV beta of mid 2007. The theme files validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict (while Plogger itself is either Strict or Transitional, depending on some options). The theme looks nearly identical in Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7, [...]

The WordPress function wp_get_archives(’type=postbypost’) displays a lovely list of posts, but won’t show the date of each post. This plugin adds each post’s date to those ‘postbypost’ lists, like so:
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This plugin allows you to add information from your Halo 3 Service Record to your WordPress blog.
The plugin displays your emblem, rank and grade, but with a little editing it could also display total the total number of games played, the date and time of the last game played, and any other information on the [...]

Apricot is a text-heavy and graphic-light, widget- and tag-supporting minimalist WordPress theme built on a Kubrick foundation. Apricot validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and uses valid CSS. It natively supports the excellent Other Posts From Cat and the_excerpt Reloaded plugins, should you want to install them.
WordPress version 2.3 introduces native support for ‘tags’, [...]

This plugin allows you to add an XHTML and CSS Halo 2 Stats sig to your WordPress blog, which you can then style to fit your layout. The plugin displays your emblem, your level in each of the ranked game types, and your overall rank, which is equal to the highest ranked gametype. [...]

I’ve put together a WordPress plugin that will display a customizable XHTML and CSS Xbox 360 gamer card. There are plenty of sites out there that will make good looking gamer cards using image files, but this method will give you complete control over the appearance. It also acts like a gamer card, [...]

I’ve happened across an apparent bug in the way Internet Explorer renders the Mootools Accordion javascript when inside a table. Specifically, I’m trying to use the Accordion to show and hide a new table row. I’ve put the stretcher div inside a td cell, which opens and closes correctly in Firefox, but exhibits [...]