Check out the overview of  The Complete Guide To The WordPress Settings API or use one of the links below.

• Part 1: What It Is, Why It Matters
• Part 2: Sections, Fields, and Settings
• Part 3: All About Menus
• Part 4: On Theme Options
• Part 5: Tabbed Navigation For Your Settings Page
• Part 6: Menu Pages
• Part 7: Validation, Sanitisation, and Input I
• Part 8: Validation, Sanitisation, and Input II

So, here are some handy tools for Google Chrome to check page load times:

Google Chrome

• View > Developer Tools > Network Tab
  Refresh (hard refresh) the page to view a waterfall timeline of page load.
• Google Page Speed extension
  https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights_extensions
• YSlow extension
  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ninejjcohidippngpapiilnmkgllmakh

Beautiful song, check it out!

To launch the high quality TV channel TNT in Belgium we placed a big red push button on an average Flemish square of an average Flemish town. A sign with the text “Push to add drama” invited people to use the button. And then we waited…

THREE | FIVE | SIX – brought to you by stephenbrooksfilms.com & Scene Media featuring Jason MacLean’s Porsche 356 and Charlotte Louisa Moran.

You can add multiple changes by copying this line and changing Dashboard and Home:
$menu = str_ireplace( ‘Dashboard’, ‘Home’, $menu );

Note: This will replace all references to Dashboard to Home so you could use this to rename other stuff. For instance, you can rebrand WooCommerce to DaanShop, which is way cooler

This guide is for Mac OS X Lion but will probably also work on Leopard and Snow Leopard (not tested).

So, here is what I did:

1. Install HandBrake

Download: http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

2. Install HandBrakeCLI

Download: http://handbrake.fr/downloads2.php
For extra information and options take a look at the wiki: https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CLIGuide

Move HandBrakeCLI to /Applications.

3. Configure a preset in HandBrake

Create a new preset named RPi (or whatever suits you) with command+n with the following settings.

On the video tab, set Format to MP4 file and Video Codec to H.264:

On the audio tab, set Codec to AAC (CoreAudio). I’ve set the Bitrate to 160 but you could set it to a higher value if your sources have higher quality bitrates.

All other values I have left untouched. Experiment with other settings if you like but these worked best for me.

4. AppleScript

Open AppleScript Editor (hint: it is in /Applications/Utilities) and copy and paste the code below.

Edit the location of Home:Movies to where you want your monitored folder. In my case Home is my second hard drive and Movies is a folder in the root of Home. Also edit the name of the preset if you named it something else then RPi.

After editing save the AppleScript to “~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts” with an easy identifiable name. I used “HandBrake – Transcode to RPi.scpt”. If the folders do not exist you can create them.

5. Folder Actions Setup

In Finder, right-click on the relevant folder. In the popup menu navigate to Services and in the flyout menu click on Folder Actions Setup.

You will be presented with Folder Actions Setup program and if all went well you will see your AppleScript in the list. Select the script and click on Attach. Make sure the checkboxes are ticked, also the “Enable Folder Actions”. The Folder Action is ready and you can quit the Folder Actions Setup program.

6. Add files

Now, drag some movie files in the folder and watch the magic happen.

Note: The original files will be deleted and will not be moved to Trash so if you want to keep your original files make sure you do not move them into the folder but copy them. You have been warned!

I have transcoded about 180 files in SD quality in about 10 hours on an early 2011 15″ MacBook Pro Core i7.

Image by ilovecolors.com.ar

See what I mean? The box on the right is what I want.

Ilovecolors.com.ar wrote about it and has a fix involving coding but scribu made a Category Checklist Tree plugin which, of course, is way easier.

Direct download from WordPress plugin repository: Category Checklist Tree plugin