centerToParent is my personal solution to this never ending battle of proper alignment.

I hate typing ‘wp-admin’ after a WordPress url to get to the Dashboard. It throws me off of my game. It always has. By the time I’ve typed that painful phrase and stretched my pinky all the way up to the hyphen key and the Dashboard appears before me, I’ve often forgotten what I’d went there for. So I made Teleport, a WordPress plugin.

Download, Install, & Documentation

• WordPress users can install from the Plugin Repo.
• Githubbers can download or fork the plugin on the Github Repo.
• All documentation about the plugin, including how to use it, is also on the Plugin Repo.

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Side Notes

After creating a shortcut that redirects to the Dashboard, the next logical step was to add a keyboard shortcut to edit the current post or page. Soon after that, I realized the full potential Teleport. So, I went crazy for four days, and made the damn thing.

I’d like to keep working on this project, and make it extremely useful for WordPress navigation. In the development stages, Teleport saved me a ton of time. It’s very easy to train to muscle memory. At least, easier than having to alter a url and find a specific link on a page that has nothing but other links on it.

Although the buttons are clickable to their respective redirects, I made Teleport so you can keep your hands on your keyboard. Every time your hand fumbles to the mouse is a second or two you’ve lost. It doesn’t sound like much, but over time it adds up.

Some of you might be thinking, “Well, what about the admin bar?” I hate the admin bar.

Pagination

WordPress pagination is really easy. Especially if you don’t want to show page numbers. WordPress provides two methods: next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link(). I won’t go into details because this isn’t a tutorial, but here’s the code.

<div>
    <div><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older posts'); ?></div>
    <div><?php previous_posts_link('Newer posts &raquo;'); ?></div>
</div>

#main div.left {
    width: 426px;
    float: left;
    margin: 0 22px 0;
}

#main div.right {
    width: 426px;
    float: right;
    margin: 0 22px 0 0;
}

<div class="left">
    <p>Some content.</p>
</div>
<div class="right">
    <p>Some more content.</p>
</div>

Conclusion

This was a great patch. I’m completely satisfied, and I hope I can push this much work, if not more, every week. I’d really like to tackle the Projects section soon. It needs some love.

To set up:

• Copy the gist below.
• In Alfred’s extensions tab, click the plus sign at the bottom left, and click “Shell Script”.
• After you name your extension, paste the gist into the command box.
• Change everything inside of the [...] to match your server, file paths, and Github account.
• Make sure “Silent” is checked.
• Save.

If you don’t have the power pack, save the file as an Application, and Alfred should pick it up in the search.

Ps. I call this BatSignal.

Do you not hate that moment when you think to yourself, “I should add an alias to my .bashrc file, so I will not have to cd to this long-ass path a few hundred more times over the next two weeks,” but then you just keep coding. However, that’s hardly the only issue with aliases. After a few years, you’ll start to accumulate 10′s and 20′s of aliases across multiple machines. Your only option is to peek into your dotfile to see what goodies you might have stashed away weeks, maybe months ago.

Metis – Goddess of Wisdom

I wrote Metis to solve this problem. Metis saves aliases that will cd to the current working directory. If you’ve forgotten your saved aliases, type ‘metis’ and press return. Aliases for everyone.

Coley’s Hacker News is a Google Chrome extension that tweaks the Hacker News experience. Although there are only two tweaks(for now), the efficiency increase is two-fold: Hacker News refreshes every minute; Outgoing links now open in background tabs.

No more manually refreshing after switching back to your Hacker News tab. No more holding down Ctrl/Cmd while clicking an outgoing link to open an article in a new tab.

Download

Download from the Chrome Web Store.

Future

In the near future, we’ll be adding more tweaks and perhaps a settings component for toggling individual tweaks off and on.

Got an idea? Contribute! You can fork Coley’s Hacker News on GitHub.

If you use WordPress as much as I do, you’ll notice that you can’t use this method with WordPress’ body_class function. Even though body_class accepts a string parameter that it will embed into the class attribute, we cannot pass any data detailing the browser version to this parameter. The PHP runs on the server before the conditional comments run in the browser, making it impossible to add the respective classes dynamically.

Fortunately there is an easy way to do this with jQuery:

var b = $.browser;
if(b.msie) {
     var v = b.version.split('.')[0];
     $('body').addClass("ie ie" + v);
}

This snippet must be placed within jQuery’s document ready callback to work properly. Keep in mind that this snippet does not require WordPress to work, but it was written with WordPress in mind.

Random Quotes 1.3 brings you ‘longtext’, which is what the ‘quotation’ and ‘quotation2′ fields are set to now. The great thing about ‘longtext’ is that it can store a sh’load of characters(bits). How many you might ask? Over 4 billion. Yeah, I said it.

If you’re using Random Quotes to display testimonials or very long quotations, I would update right away. Get it while it’s hot!

Download Random Quotes 1.3

I’d like to express many thanks to Erik for pointing out this major inadequacy. I would have never spotted it on my own.

The solution was really quite simple. It turns out there wasn’t a bug within Random Quotes at all, but within WordPress. WordPress has a method called add_options_page(); This method creates the admin page to change the plugin’s preferences. Normally I would write the method like this:

add_options_page("Random Quotes", "Random Quotes", 1, "Random Quotes", "rq_admin");

When used like this, WordPress changes the spaces to hyphens on the third parameter, but the admin page will still be hosted at /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=Random%20Quotes. The “%20″ is a space character. This creates a problem, because WordPress has the third parameter saved as “Random-Quotes” and “/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=Random-Quotes” will only link to the “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” page.

Here’s the update I’ve made in Random Quotes 1.2

add_options_page("Random Quotes", "Random Quotes", 1, "Random-Quotes", "rq_admin");

So if you have ran into this bug upon using Random Quotes 1.0, you can download the new version, and update the plugin. Remember this bug when developing your own WordPress plugins as well.

Download the latest version.

I plan on releasing the next version of this plugin very soon.
Here’s the hit list:

• Widget support
• Ajax options page
• Ability to list the quotation author
• Better options interface