Archive for May 2011
Choosing What to Add to a Premium Theme
Building WordPress themes for Pro Theme Design I have to tread a fine line, between what people ask for, and what people want.
I get loads of feature requests, and generally my approach is to suggest a plugin, or to dig a bit deeper and work out why the request has been made. The requests normally end up filtered into one of three piles.
Will it benefit me or my own ...TimThumb Quality Settings
Recently I have had a couple of emails about changing the amount of compression on TimThumb cropped images. The change itself is really easy, however I thought I would write it up as a reference for those who aren't aware of it's existence.
To change the level of compression all you have to do is edit the 'q' (which stands for quality) parameter in the query string.
If you don't set the value then ...
How To Fix WordPress and Mod Security 2
Recently my website was moved to a new web server, and in the process the server software was upgraded, and it broke some parts of my site. It took a bit of digging but in the end I worked out that the problem lie with Mod Security - a server plugin that improves security but can sometimes inadvertently break features.
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