How we got Think2Loud to be so fast.
We followed the advice of Yoast.com and moved to VPS.net.
Read more about it in our WordPress hosting article.
Backblaze Icon Missing from Menu Bar in Snow Leopard
Long story short, Backblaze is awesome! Up until I lost my Backblaze icon from the menu bar in Mac OSX Snow Leopard. I researched online a little and couldn’t find an easy method of fixing the issue. With that nifty … ( more )
$.extend and $.data, more than just internal jQuery methods>>
A great post about 2 of the more useful methods in jQuery.
First Impressions: Genesis Theme Framework
Lately I’ve been doing a lot more work with WordPress, and it’s given me the opportunity to work on lots of different themes and theme frameworks. Given the choice I would much rather start a new theme from scratch. Of … ( more )
Displaying custom post types on your WordPress blog homepage
So you have created a great new custom post type in WordPress 3.0 but it doesn’t show on your homepage. To add your new post type to the homepage you could use the following code in your functions.php. As you … ( more )
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WordPress Hosting
Think2Loud had been on shared hosting for just under two years, before I finally decided to take the leap and set up my own server. A few months ago I was reading a blog post by WooThemes about their new … ( more )
Sencha Touch: The HTML5 Mobile App Framework>>
Mobile application development certainly is not easy but the right framework can make a huge difference. Mobiletuts+ covers the basics of Sencha Touch to help you decide if it is right for you.
How to see if a Post in WordPress has an Excerpt
On the single post page for our posts, we wanted to display the excerpt only if one had been entered. Since the built-in WordPress function to get the excerpt for a post will automatically generate one for you, we couldn’t … ( more )
CSS3 Rounded Image With jQuery>>
This a great little jQuery snippet that allows you to add rounded corners to images with ease.
JSON vs. XML: What Should You Use?
Lots of people have asked me this question: which is better when loading data via an ajax request? JSON is my favorite. I’m going to try and explain the benefits of JSON over XML. ( more )
Where to Start with jQuery Selectors
With jQuery there are many ways to select elements. We are going to cover two of the most popular selectors id and class. ( more )
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