add_filter('sanitize_file_name', 'sa_sanitize_spanish_chars', 10);
    function sa_sanitize_spanish_chars ($filename) {
    return remove_accents( $filename );
}

Source

1. First, go ahead and download and install “Upload to FTP”.
2. Then, fire up Automator, choose app, drag the “Upload to FTP” to the app.
3. Fill up your details like shown in this example photo:
4. Then, drag in “Copy to Clipboard” after the Upload to FTP.
5. Save it and drag the app icon to the Dock. When you want to upload a image to your server, simply drag an image to the app icon in your Dock. The path to your image is automatically coped to your clipboard for you to paste somewhere.

Login with SSH

ssh username@domainname.com

or

ssh username@12.12.12.123

The series of numbers being your IP address. If you got those right, you’ll be prompted your password, just type it in.

To zip a folder

zip -r archive.zip foldername

1. -r include all files and directories
2. archive.zip name of the zip file you want to do
3. foldername name of the folder you want to zip

Unzip

unzip archive.zip

Recourses:

• Using Zip Via SSH
• Common SSH Commands

Unzipping using a PHP script

I’ve been using this script PHP Unzipper. Just unzip it and throw to your server and navigate to yourdomain.com/index2.php

Or you can use some other script, like this. I haven’t tested it.

function disable_drag_metabox() {
    wp_deregister_script('postbox');
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'disable_drag_metabox' );

Not for the admin.

if (!current_user_can('author')) {
    function disable_drag_metabox() {
        wp_deregister_script('postbox');
    }
    add_action( 'admin_init', 'disable_drag_metabox' );
}

if (value is lagrer than other value)
    do stuff
else
    do something else

Different methods

To my knowledge there are few different ways to do this.

1. The normal way using shorthand
2. The normal way with curly brackets
3. The normal way with colon
4. The ternary method

Actually only two, the first three are exactly the same. Lets see.

The shorthand method

if ($a > $b)
    echo "a is larger than b";
else
    echo "a is smaller than b";

But, as they say “Explicit is always better than implicit”. More on that here.

The curly bracket method, the more explicit method

if ($a > $b) {
    echo "a is larger than b";
} else {
    echo "a is smaller than b";
}

It’s good to use { } to be more clear. I like this.

Colon method

This is more clear when you have a lot of html in between the if else statements.

<?php if ($a > $b) : ?>
    <!--Loads of html content here-->
<?php else : ?>
    <!--Loads of html content here-->
<?php enfif; ?>

The ternary method

This one is also referred as the shorthand method. It is probably the most confusing and it has its limitations compared to the normal statement, but also more handy in many cases.

$age_string = ($age < 18) ? 'Cannot buy booze' : 'Can buy booze';

That is equal to:

if ($age < 18) {
    $age_string = 'Cannot buy booze';
} else {
    $age_string = 'Can buy booze';
}

Much more compact!

The limitation in it being that you can’t echo out stuff in the statement. The following will not work.

($age < 18) ? echo 'Cannot buy booze' : echo 'Can buy booze';

The way you would make the echo work with it:

$age_string = ($age < 18) ? 'Cannot buy booze' : 'Can buy booze';
echo $age_string;

But there is more…

…than two “states” the if and the else. A value can have three “states” so to speak: smaller, larger and equal to. That’s when the elseif steps in, (of course there is ∞ amount of different outcomes, not only three, hope you get the point).

The upper mentioned statements all have a flaw. See comments below.

if ($a > $b) {
    echo "a is larger than b";
} else {
    echo "a is smaller than b"; //This is also true when the two values are equal, so it's not smaller
}

The following is straight from the PHP Manual elseif/if else article.

if ($a > $b) {
    echo $a . " is greater than " . $b;
} elseif ($a == $b) { // Note the combination of the words.
    echo $a . " equals " . $b;
} else {
    echo $a." is neither greater than or equal to ".$b;
}

Here’s the same with comments.

if ($a > $b) {
    echo $a . " is greater than " . $b; //First state:  if "a" is larger
} elseif ($a == $b) {
    echo $a." equals ".$b;              //Second state: if "a" and "b" are equal
} else {
    echo $a . " is smaller " . $b;      //Third state:  if "a" smaller
}

The elseif does not mean that something “is equal to”, it’s just a way to test it among millions of other things.

I quote the manual:

elseif, as its name suggests, is a combination of if and else. Like else, it extends an if statement to execute a different statement in case the original if expression evaluates to FALSE. However, unlike else, it will execute that alternative expression only if the elseif conditional expression evaluates to TRUE.

What what??? else and if combined… To me it always kind of said or. Does that make sense?

Hope this was helpful.

Problems in that approach:

• Margins are define in percentage so they vary depending on the width of the window, we don’t want that
• On low resolutions the sidebar gets too narrow and the list in it wraps, ugly.

What we want:

• Fluid width columns
• Static width sidebar
• Static width margins

See in the fiddle what I mean →

Elementary HTML and CSS

Here’s what we’re doing, check the comments in the code.

The HTML:

<!-- Wrapper in normal fashion -->
<div class="wrap">
    <!-- Normal header -->
    <header>
        <h1>Fixed width sidebar in a fluid layout</h1>
    </header>
    <!-- Apply the margin to this not the wrap -->
    <section>
        <!-- Give the columns a wrapper -->
        <div class="article-wrap">
            <article>
                <!-- Inner element to the columns -->
                <div class="inner-article">
                    <p>Some content here</p>
                </div>
            </article>
            <article>
                <div class="inner-article">
                    <p>Some content here</p>
                </div>
            </article>
            <article class="last">
                <div class="inner-article">
                    <p>Some content here</p>
                </div>
            </article>
        </div>
        <aside>
            <!-- Inner element here also -->
            <div class="inner-sidebar">
                <h2>Sidebar</h2>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        Some sort of a menu
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        List item 2
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        List item number three
                    </li>
                </ul>
            </div>
        </aside>
    </section>
</div>​

And the CSS:

.wrap{width:100%;}
    /* Margin in the inner wrapper */
    section{font:normal 13px/1.4 sans-serif; margin:20px;}
/* Right margin width of the sidebar */
.article-wrap{margin:0 193px 0 0;}
    /* Float the columns and give width depending on how many you have them */
    article{float:left; width:33%;}
        /* Apply margins and paddings to the inner element */
        .inner-article{background:LightGoldenRodYellow; margin:0 20px 0 0; padding:10px;}
/* Position the sidebar absolutely */
aside{background:Aquamarine; height:350px; position:absolute; top:74px; right:20px; width:200px;}
    /* Again paddings and margins in the inner element */
    .inner-sidebar{padding:15px}
/*Just to make is pretty*/
header{margin:20px; width:100%;}
h1{font:bold 25px/1.4 sans-serif;}
h2{font:bold 18px/1.4 sans-serif;}
p{margin:10px;}
ul{list-style:disc; margin:0 0 0 17px;}
​

The key here is to wrap elements. Check the full code in the fiddle.

1. The texts length in the tabs vary (multilingual site)
2. The layout needs to be fluid
3. No javascript can be used
4. The ul can’t have background color

The gist of the problem was to have the tabs (the a elements) blend into the semi transparent section element beneath it on hover and when current.

Cause of the transparency, the ul could not have a background color (it wouldn’t be transparent then), and we needed to use a filler element.

Half of glory to Martti.