Modifying core is horrible… it’s extremely bad practice and causes trouble for you. That said, people still do it. Especially in contracted scenarios. There are also unfortunately issues with most methods of trying to manage a wiki with modifications that make it difficult to upgrade or restrict your ability to track the changes you make. […]
Just as with our previous Post-Backgrounds Plugin we had another feature we wanted users of the theme we’re building to have access to. In this case we want it to be easy for WordPress users to use css3 columns inside their posts. The plugin includes a [columns] short code that allows you to give a […]
For a theme we’re working on and intend to release when finished we wanted users to have the ability to set a background for the content area. This feature can be of use to magazine style sites or blogs where you want a visual background behind the textual content of the page. To make this […]
Ever looked at a list of direct messages in Facebook or gone into Google’s account settings and noticed how they handle scrolls? Both sites use a visual technique to cue the user showing them they are not at the top of the scrollable area. They do this using a shadow that disappears when you hit […]
While converting various designer mockups into html and css one trick I’ve used a few time is the abuse of box-shadow, defined by the css3-backgrounds. Remember that not every browser supports box-shadow. caniuse.com has a support table you can review. Remember that while I’m using box-shadow on it’s own here you also need -moz- and […]
In my last MediaWiki skinning tutorial I detailed how to create a brand new custom skin for MediaWiki. Since then I’ve found that there are also a number of people who want to create a new skin that only contains css tweaks of one of the built-in core skins. Many people try to do this […]
We’ve released a tool to help configure short URLs for MediaWiki: http://shorturls.redwerks.org/ The tool tries to auto-detect as much as possible (practically everything in fact). Everything from the type of server, the sapi (mod_php vs. ?), your scriptpath, etc… it even tries to jump ahead of you and guess what kind of article path you […]