Quite some years after the iPhone was introduced it still seems that everybody wants to have one to send email messages. But what if you just can’t afford it? In this short post I would like to show how to setup your email client so it looks like you were sending these messages from your shiny iPhone. It’s easy, quick and fun.
How to pretend having an iPhone
March 3rd, 2010 — Tech
WordPress: Adding a sidebar to your theme
January 5th, 2010 — Tech
In another post I discussed the idea of placing a sidebar into your theme and using it to manage the navigation menu of your site. I came to the conclusion – proposed by other people from the WordPress community as well – that you can use a sidebar for basically anything but not just a sidebar.
Although you can find this information in the Codex too, I would like to show you how easy it is to add a sidebar somewhere into your theme. You’ll see that it’s just about adding some function calls here and there – that’s it and you’ve got a new sidebar that can hold arbitrary widgets.
Paginated comments with WordPress 2.7 and the Copyblogger theme
December 26th, 2008 — Tech
The new WordPress release 2.7 has built-in support for both comment threading and paging. Especially the latter is a cool feature: it helps fighting the problem of ever growing pages just because there’re so many comments attached to a post or a page.
Since I’m using the Copyblogger theme that currently doesn’t come with comments on several pages I changed the comment.php to use this new feature. This post documents how this worked.
Removing the WordPress Generator meta tag completely
December 22nd, 2008 — Tech
WordPress adds a generator tag at various locations. Basically that’s a good idea because it provides a means to check out the different versions of WordPress that are actively being used in the blogosphere.
