CSS Tips: Class or ID?
I work a lot with websites, and I’m having this fond for WordPress engine since the most thing that I should work with is how to re-design a theme. I’m not so good with image manipulation or graphic design, hence I work a lot with CSS and the template parts.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used for styling the site (HTML) elements. By declaring how an element should look (or behave), the work is becoming less. Name it fonts size, colors, how images looks, and event positioning certain elements, all is become much easier once the styling has been declared.
Styling the elements can be done either generally, or specifically. For instance when you declare a single CSS for <p> tag, then every time you use that instance it will styled as you declared. But when you need to create a different looks for another <p> tag somewhere on your page, then you can be more specific by using an ID or a Class.
The easiest way to tell the difference is by looking at the CSS part of your website. An ID is noted by using “#” (hastag symbol) while a Class is noted by using “.” (period symbol).
Solving Incoming Links Widget Problem in WordPress
If you are a WordPress user, then you’d probably notice the “Incoming Links” widget that reside in your Dashboard. Recently there’s been an issue with error message being displayed. Well, if you are looking for a solution, then read on.
The “Incoming Links” widget works by searching the web for any page that is linking to any page in your website (read my post about inbound link) And the way to do that is by taking advantage of the Google Blog Search.
By sending a GET request, one can get a search result in an RSS output. Then the WordPress engine (and its built-in function) will parse the RSS and show the result in widget that you can custom (how many records to show, etc.)
Well, if it’s a built-in functions, then why it’s not working?
Did WordPress made a flaw in the development phase?
Preview bit.ly Link from Twitter
Choosing Twitter as your media of promotion is nothing new these days, and believe me it sure does the job efficiently. But there are times when someone mention something in your timeline which could be vague enough, that it lure suspicions, and the only way to tell the truth is by clicking the bit.ly link that mentioned in the tweet.
Now I don’t have to tell you about the risk that can be exposed through a single click, but here I’m going to share you one FireFox Add-ons that will help you to “peek” the content of the shortened link in those tweets.
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With the bit.ly Preview Plugin for Firefox, whenever you hover over a bit.ly URL on any web page (not only Twitter, as a matter of fact), you will have a tooltip showing the Page Title, Long URL, and any Click Data available regarding the page that the URL links to.
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