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Yourls Google Analytics Link Tagging
In my last post, I wrote about the benefits of using YOURLS, a self-hosted link-shortening service. I’m finding that YOURLS is great, but it’s not perfect. Some of the issues I have experience are part of what you get using most URL shortener services.
Some of the downsides of using link shorteners are:
- Google Analytics doesn’t always capture the original referrer (and I have no clue how they do the rest of the time!).
- When generating links using the bookmarklet (or in this case, also the Yourls installation), there’s no easy way to add campaign, source, medium, content, and term tags for Google Analytics to track.
- Yourls doesn’t allow query strings on URLs by default, making overriding existing campaign tags difficult/impossible. For example:
http://katz.si/t?utm_source=2300
I’m not the only one who wanted these things, so I’ve created a plugin that adds Google Analytics tracking to Yourls. It’s very cool.
Posted in Plugins, Web Development
Tagged Plugin, Plugin Development, Plugins, URL, URL Shortener, YOURLS, Yourls Plugin
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Show Content Only Plugin – A Perfect Keyword Research Companion
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Another WordPress SEO Plugin by Katz Web Services
The Show Content Only Plugin enables you to show only a post or page’s content, without sidebars, footers, and other content.
There are many different reasons for wanting to show just the content, but there’s never been such an easy way to do it. This plugin adds a box in the post and page editor that provides you with four links:
- Content Only
- Content with Tags
- Content with Categories
- Content with Categories & Tags
How to Prevent Loading WP-DownloadManager’s CSS File
If you want to disable the WordPress plugin WP-DownloadManager‘s download-css.css file from being loaded, add the following code to your functions.php file:
remove_action('wp_print_styles', 'downloads_stylesheets');
Alternatively, if you would just like to use your own stylesheet, you can add a file named download-css.css to your theme’s directory, and the plugin will automatically load your stylesheet instead.
Posted in Code, QuickTip, WordPress
Tagged CSS, load time, Plugin, Plugins, WordPress Plugins, WP Plugins, WP-DownloadManager
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Strip Extra ImageScaler Attribute from Plugin-Generated Code
I am using the ImageScaler plugin for WordPress on a project, and I like what it does, but it adds a non-standards-compliant attribute to images, such as:
<img class="" src="http://www.example.com/imagescaler/generated-image.jpg" alt="Example" width="258" height="234" imagescaler="http://www.example.com/imagescaler/original-image.jpg" />
To strip imagescaler’s imagescaler attribute, add the following into your functions.php file:
add_filter('the_content', 'strip_imagescaler');
function strip_imagescaler($content) {
$content = preg_replace('/imagescaler="(.*?)".?/s','', $content);
return $content;
}
Posted in WordPress
Tagged add_filter, Code, images, ImageScaler, Plugin, preg_replace, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins
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Simple Taxonomies Formatting — Improve the Plugin’s Code Output
I’ve been using Joost de Valk’s Simple Taxonomies plugin for a couple of projects, and I’ve been very disappointed by the formatting of the terms output code.
When configuring the plugin, you have the option of choosing “Add terms to the end of posts” or “Add terms to the end of excerpts.” If you do, you get a <div> and a couple of spans. Not very semantic. Also, the code uses an #id, instead of a .class, meaning that if you have more than one post on a page with taxonomies, it no longer validates.
Simple Taxonomies uses terms, so let’s make a list of them!
Here’s a way to reformat the code and prevent overwriting in future plugin updates. We’re going to strip the code and use a definition list instead (<dl>). Definition lists in HTML have a term and description; just as a custom taxonomies creates a taxonomy and its terms.
Posted in Code, WordPress
Tagged custom taxonomies, custom taxonomy, Joost, Plugin, Simple Taxonomies, Taxonomies, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, Yoast
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Simple Vertical Align Plugin for jQuery
Sometimes you may want to vertically align a block item, but the CSS-only vertical aligning methods don’t make you feel clean. Personally, I hate having to style items as a table/table cell to get them to vertically align in Internet Explorer.
jQuery to the rescue. Using a jQuery vertical align snippet as my base code, I modified it to be a jQuery plugin that will allow you to use the function in the jQuery chain.
Posted in Code, jQuery
Tagged CSS, Javascript, jQuery, jQuery Plugin, Plugin, Vertical, Vertical Align
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MomJobSeeker.com launched!
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Mom Job Seeker prepares mothers re-entering the workplace after their kids have grown up a bit. April Stensgard, owner, contacted Katz Web Design with the goal of having a business blog that would facilitate online event registration.
Faced with this task, I took WordPress, added the eShop plugin, and Event Calendar and Event Manager (now defunct) and rolled it into a custom event management solution.
Posted in Web Design Portfolio, WordPress
Tagged Event, Event Registration, Events, Management, Plugin, registration, WP Plugins
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How I fixed WP-DownloadManager 404 errors
I use LesterChan‘s Download Manager plugin, and it’s great. Good interface, simple purpose.
I recently found out that after upgrading a client’s site to WP 2.5, WP-DownloadManager was no longer working. I followed the documentation on the plugin website, including resetting the permalink structure, but nothing worked.
For some reason the re-write wasn’t working properly: all the downloads were giving 404 errors. I couldn’t figure it out, so I dove into the code. I found the part of the plugin that rewrites the download links, and found the problem.
Admin Drop Down Menu plugin does not break WordPress 2.5 Image Uploader [updated]
The plugin has been updated. The multitudes may celebrate fewer clicks!
As sad as it is to admit (since the plugin has saved me thousands of clicks), Admin Drop Down Menu by Ozh breaks the WordPress image uploader. If you’ve tried everything WordPress tells you to do in order to fix that Image Gallery feature and multiple image upload capability in WordPress 2.5, and disable this plugin.
WordPress 2.5 help pages
- Image/Media Uploader Problems
- Internet Explorer 7 problems with 2.5 Gallery
- WordPress 2.5 Plugin Compatibility List – Warning: it was wrong about the Admin Drop Down Menu, so who knows what else it’s wrong about!
Posted in WordPress
Tagged admin, compatibility, errors, gallery, help, image uploader, Plugin, WordPress, wordpress 2.5
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