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Live Ajax PHP regex tester
Yesterday I was close to a nervous breakdown, because my beloved PHP regex tester, formerly to be found at http://nancywalshee03.freehostia.com/, doesn’t exist any more. So I shorthand created another gem of dirty programming work and wrote a new one quickly, to be found at http://www.ginchen.de/regextester/. It uses preg_match_all() to find the needle in the haystack…
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Large images in WordPress
Yet another small, but annoying problem solved: Since sometime ago (allegedly since version 2.5 – I haven’t noticed it until 2.6), WordPress has started to scale all larger images, which were added in the editor by clicking “add image”, down to a width of 500 pixels. This will also happen, if you even chose “full size” in…
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Session variables in WordPress
For three days I had nearly despaired when I tried to extend a WordPress site with a self-written login script. Everything worked properly on my local server, but as soon as I had uploaded it, the session variables didn’t seem to be passed any more: after the login, I stayed logged in for only one…
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Date formatting in WordPress
Note: This post is quite old. Especially the suggestions under items 2 and 3 are no longer appropriate. More recent tips for date formatting with qTranslate are available here. After updating to WordPress 2.5, I have – like many others, obviously – experienced the problem that post dates and times were not being localised anymore.…
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Expression search under Windows XP
I just wanted to use the Windows search function in order to find “a word or phrase in the file”. No chance! It has now happened to me several times that no files were listed at all, although I knew that my search expression was inside one of the files. Today I finally started searching…