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Twitter Code for Text Widget in WordPress Sidebar

Tison — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:01:16 +0000

<div id="twitter_div"> <ul id="twitter_update_list"> <a href="http://twitter.com/YOURURLHERE" id="twitter-link" style="display:block;text-align:right;">follow me on Twitter</a> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/YOURURLHERE.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=5"></script> Change the YOURURLHERE to your actual twitter url and voila.

WP Ecommerce Plugin Caching Issue in IE Internet Explorer

Tison — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:44:57 +0000

In working with the WP Ecommerce Plugin, on WordPress, we’ve noticed that updates to products are not reflected within the front-end when testing with Internet Explorer. We found this to be strictly an Internet Explorer “feature” in our testing. The problem here is – if most are using IE – will we be guaranteed that [...]

Links Unclickable, Broken in WordPress Ecommerce Cart Widget (IE)

Tison — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:11:27 +0000

We have run into an odd issue of our own when implementing the WordPress Ecommerce Plugin. We noticed that as the WP Ecommerce plugin uses ajax to build the shopping cart items (which is great, allowing visitors to stay on the page and keep shopping), but the problem was that as soon as an item [...]

How to Add an Additional Outoing Mail, SMTP Port

Tison — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:42:17 +0000

Pertains to: Mediatemple (dv) Dedicated Virtual Accounts before v3.5, using Plesk After spending over 20 hours simply trying to simply setup a customer’s email client, we decided that this deserves some documentation we couldn’t find elsewhere. Using MediaTemple, I can’t seem to send email, my smtp server is failing? The problem: Apparently several ISP’s on [...]

Gap between images within link tags ie only (surprise)

Tison — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:48:46 +0000

Problem: You are building your navigation, or template design and for some crazy reason the images (with a font-size:0px) still continue to have a 1px gap between each other in ie (Internet Explorer 6 – 7 particularly). BIG SURPRISE – another ie bug. Wow. what a shocker. Solution/Workaround 1 – Remove line breaks In many [...]