Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Category: Web Development

  • Create an ePub out of a Category on your Site

    Still under development. It doesn’t handle images yet. Hence not publishing to the WordPress plugin repository. However. It WILL create an ePub of all the posts in a category when you save a post. If you have images in your posts then the ePub will open fine, it just won’t validate at http://validator.idpf.org The code…

  • How to Debug WordPress

    I recently stumbled across this nifty gem in the WordPress Codex: Debugging in WordPress. Basically, php has ways to suppressing errors, and by default WordPress will do this for you as well. Why? Well, you don’t want everyone who stumbles onto your site to see all the errors your code is making. The problem is…

  • Responsive Web Design – Solving the Pitfalls of `Display: None`

    One of the biggest complaints I’ve heard about Responsive Web Design is that sites built to be responsive take too long to load. We may have reached the age of broadband with our desktops but with bandwidth throttling and pay-per-byte mobile plans we really need to consider every pixel and every bit of code we…

  • A Small Thought About Adaptive Web Design vs Responsive Web Design

    Responsive Web Design, which is built on the principals of Graceful Degradation. Whereas… Adaptive Web Design is built on the principals of Progressive Enhancement. Whhahaatt? Graceful Degradation is when you build your site for modern browsers, then find solutions to make the experience passable for people using Internet Explorer or Mobile Browsers. Progressive Enhancement starts…

  • Why I tried Twitter’s Bootstrap and What I Didn’t Get from It

    **Edit: **Now that Bootstrap has been around a while I’ve updated my thoughts. ~=~=~=~=~ The inspiration for Twitter’s Bootstrap is pretty awesome – a predefined reusable modules for building beautiful, elegant sites. Who wouldn’t want that? There are so many common design patterns we front-end developers use throughout our work, why not put them all…

  • Form Input “Placeholder” Attribute Polyfill

    This is a jQuery-dependent polyfill for the placeholder input attribute. If you’re relying on “placeholder” pop this code in your page and you don’t have to let IE users hanging in the breeze.

  • No More Passwords* – Log into WordPress using a QR Code

    A short while ago I stumbled upon an interesting Hacker News conversation… Intrigued by the challenge, I decided to implement the theory as a WordPress plugin for all to use. So here’s the gory details… The Flow User visits Login page Login page Generates unique hash, saves hash to the database Login page Creates QR…

  • How to Add META Tags – ROBOTS NOFOLLOW,NOINDEX – to Your MediaWiki Site Head

    I spent too much time today hunting down how to do this, so I thought I’d spell it out clearly. Add the following snippet to your LocalSettings.php OR includes/OutputPage.php file and it will insert the META tag ROBOTS NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW into the header. As you know, the ROBOTS NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW tag will tell search engines…

  • Beautiful WordPress 3.3 Site in Under 30 Minutes

    Edit Now it has a custom theme… Ilana C. Myer My wife needed a professional site. What were we to do? WordPress! arom conception to reality it took 30 minutes. I didn’t design the site from scratch. There are thousands of beautiful free themes out there. WordPress.org has a great way to filter through themes…

  • Announcing: The Redesign – Part One

    Edit: So, since this went up I got a full-time job… My plans are now to clean up the blog design and focus on side project that will benefit the community. At some point I may return to the long-sideways scroll page… But for now it won’t be my focus. I’ve been working on a…