Seth Stevenson

Keeping myself creative

Seth Stevenson — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:50:02 +0000

This last week I started a challenge to myself that I’ve wanted to do for quite some time. The challenge...

Embed analytics using the Google Analtyics API and Google Charts API

Seth Stevenson — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:42:24 +0000

My first article published on Developer Drive shows how to use the Google Analytics API with the Google Charts API to display page-specific analytics right in each page.

Free font: Owl Scratches

Seth Stevenson — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:00:27 +0000

Owl Scratches is a free, handrawn font based off of my awesome wife’s handwritting. It is my first font so...

Create a clean URL for your custom post type’s category archives

Seth Stevenson — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:30:16 +0000

WordPress gained great functionality by adding custom post types and one great feature of custom post types is that it can share the same categories as regular posts. However while you can view an archive of posts by category you can’t do so with a custom post type without using an ugly URL.

How Google+ and +1 will affect your SEO

Seth Stevenson — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:00:10 +0000

Today Google announced Google+, their latest attempt to jump on the social bandwagon. Although Google was very careful not to use...

Add CSS or Javascript to WordPress head for specific pages

Seth Stevenson — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:00:23 +0000

Often I find myself needing to add a lot of extra styling to one or two pages in WordPress but I don't want to bloat my theme's style.css with lots of extra code. With a simple PHP switch I can add additional CSS, Javascript or other items to the page head.

Fade out surrounding content for attention

Seth Stevenson — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:00:20 +0000

Transparency can be a handy tool. Why not use it to fade out content that the user isn't focusing on?

Customize the WordPress admin menu based on user roles

Seth Stevenson — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:19:03 +0000

WordPress can be a powerful content management system but if you have multiple users often some can end up with permissions that you really wish they didn't have. There are plenty of plugins that will let you customize user permissions but it's not that hard to do ourselves by removing certain links from the admin menu for those specific user roles.

Recreating the HTC clock widget with CSS3

Seth Stevenson — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:18:50 +0000

One of the reason HTC's phones are so popular right now is their slick interface. The most iconic part of their interface is their clock and weather widget and with the help of some CSS3 we can recreate the whole thing.

YouTube show more button

Seth Stevenson — Thu, 12 May 2011 06:25:04 +0000

One of the challenges of being a web developer is that sometimes you need to cram handfuls of content on a page like a manatee into a tube top without cluttering things up. Of course Google is the king of simple and effective interfaces and they made a perfect way to show and hide long video descriptions under each YouTube video.