How To Create A Website

How to reset post IDs

Admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:51:56 +0000

I have a news site that grabs and posts things automatically, so I want to periodically reset the post ID number, just because I want to be able to keep the ID short and because I only keep posts that are about 3-day old. So, if you’re like me and for whatever reason you want to reset the post ID, this is how you’d do it:

Go into your PHPMyAdmin and export the Post table, everything, then Drop it (delete it).
Search for this line “ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=this_number“; where “this_number” is the ID number for your next post.
Change “this_number” to whatever number you want, just make sure you’re not gonna have duplicate post IDs when you let it loose.
Import your corrected Post table into your database.

Good luck.

JavaScript tabifier

Admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:03:11 +0000

Converts your HTML into a dynamic tabbed interface.
Does not require you to set up a list of links, or anchors for the tabs.
Plug and play: no need to know JavaScript, just make a few simple changes to your HTML.
Use CSS to customize the appearance of the tabs.
Gracefully degrades if JavaScript is not present and allows a different set of styles to be applied when JavaScript is not present.
Gracefully supports printing (try a print preview on the example.html page) and allows a different set of styles to be applied when printing.
Multiple tab sets on a page – you can even nest one tab set within another.
Set the initial tab to be displayed.
Use javascript to control which tab is displayed.
Define onLoad and onClick callback functions to perform more advanced functions, such as loading the tab content dynamically using AJAX.
Use a cookie to remember which tab was selected so it remains selected when you return to the page.
Object-oriented, extensively-commented code.
MIT license so you can modify and use in commercial projects.

See the script at work on our Most Popular WordPress Plugins by Categories page.

Detailed documentation and download link can be found at Barely Fitz Designs.

Browser Detection and Redirection Script

Admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:56:59 +0000

Use this script to redirect Internet Explorer users to a different location on your site or to a another site all together.

Simply replace “URL of the redirection page” with a URL of your choice.

Redirect using .htaccess 301

Admin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:31:30 +0000

One of the better and easier ways to redirect is using .htaccess 301 redirect. What is “.htaccess”?

“.htaccess is a configuration file for use on web servers running the Apache Web Server software. When a .htaccess file is placed in a directory which is in turn ‘loaded via the Apache Web Server’, then the .htaccess file is detected and executed by the Apache Web Server software. These .htaccess files can be used to alter the configuration of the Apache Web Server software to enable/disable additional functionality and features that the Apache Web Server software has to offer. These facilities include basic redirect functionality, for instance if a 404 file not found error occurs, or for more advanced functions such as content password protection or image hot link prevention.” htaccess-guide.com

Always be sure to upload .htaccess files in ascii mode.

To redirect a single page:

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.yourdomain.com/newpage.html

To redirect an entire site:

Redirect 301 / http://www.yourdomain.com/

To redirect /index.php to yourdomain.com/

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# index.php to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3, 9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

To redirect /index.html to yourdomain.com/

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# index.html to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3, 9}\ /.*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

To redirect non-www to www — It’s a good idea not to confuse search engines. More information on “canonical url errors“.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

To redirect www to non www — the opposite of the above.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Script, Show or Hide

Admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:55:15 +0000

Either embed the following code or save to a file and link to it in your HTML.

/* */ function showLogos() { var showbox = document.getElementsByTagName("DIV"); for(var i=0;i<showbox.length;i++) { if(showbox[i].className == 'show') showbox[i].style.display = 'block'; } saveCookie("showbanners",1); } function hideLogos() { var showbox = document.getElementsByTagName("DIV"); for(var i=0;i<showbox.length;i++) { if(showbox[i].className == 'show') showbox[i].style.display = 'none'; } saveCookie("showbanners",0); }

Configure your ON button with this.

Configure your OFF button with this.

Wrap your object around a DIV like this.

Follow this link below to see script in action.

Turn-your-cookies-on Script

Admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:08:41 +0000

When loaded, this script informs your site visitors to turn on their cookies.

Clear Text Box When Clicking on It

Admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:03:20 +0000

If you have a text box on your webpage (eg – a search form) with text in it (eg – “Search…”), it adds an extra level of convenience for your user if the text box clears when the user clicks inside the box. This is achieved with some simple javascript:

The crucial part is onclick=”this.value=”;” – whenever the text box is clicked on, it sets the text box’s value to empty.

If you want, you could have the box automatically refilled with the same text or different text with this simple addition to the above code.

onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'your email';

You may have already noticed the Search form and Email Subscription form are configured this way. Try it out.