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Date formatting with qTranslate
Almost a year ago I described here how I had managed to set up two different date formats for German and English in my WordPress theme. That’s why especially users of the plugin “qTranslate” ended up here frequently, because I had found a – rather muddled, but working – solution to show each language in…
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April showers bring May flowers!
“Something’s different here… If only I knew what!” Did you feel the same when you entered this site today? If so: Congratulations, you got an extraordinarily good cognitive ability! As you can see, I have finally managed to create my very own WordPress theme after more than a year. The former variants were just modifications…
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Blemish in WordPress plugin “FireStats”
Actually I didn’t want to write about this at all, but now I see that some people googled for the very same error message that I recently got from FireStats as well: Wrong parameter count for debug_backtrace() Obviously Google combed through my site just at the time when it was littered with that unlovely error…
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JavaScript and CDATA sections in WordPress posts
In the context of the XHTML-conform embedding of Google Maps, I encountered two problems (again): When I tried to insert the JavaScript with the CDATA section, WordPress got under my feet with its usually so comfortable automatic formatting functions. The end marker /* ]]> */ suddenly became: /* ]]> */ A line in the file…
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Highlighting admin comments in WordPress
Many WordPress users wish to visually highlight their own responses between the comments on a post, so that you recognize at the first glance which comments come from the site operator and which ones from normal visitors. So do I. A Google search revealed that it is most often being recommended to simply compare the…
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Automatic updates in WordPress
With the release of WordPress 2.7 on 11th December, I was facing a problem: Manual plugin updates don’t seem to be provided for anymore. To date, I had always downloaded my plugins using the download link in the backend and then moved them to my server via FTP, because the automatic update had never worked for me…