Recently I released a WordPress plug-in for Google Analytics that adds a tracking code and dozens of various pieces of meta data to Blogs. Since the release of version 4, I’ve updated it 6 times, to the point where it’s now at version 4.0.6. In this article I would like to share my experiences in maintaining this and other WordPress plug-ins and other common practices that I’ve distilled from this work. The updates that I released had a couple of reasons, ranging from bug fixes to new features and also fixes in documentation. Website and Account Configuration Almost as soon as I released the ...

Take the most popular CMS, Wordpress, and then take the easiest and most versatile of Javscript libraries, jQuery, and you have a match made in heaven. Implementing jQuery within Wordpress is a lot easier than you would think, all you need is a little support from the huge WP community and a little patience, and you are good to go. Below you will find 30 Tutorials Combining both Wordpress and jQuery. Including jQuery in WordPress (The Right Way) When you download jQuery, put it on your server and link to it from your header.php file ...

Calendars may be used on webpages for various reasons, such as allowing users to easily pick a date in a form, or just to provide monthly information. Here are a list of various css and javascript calendars for use on your site. Don't like the look? Customise them yourself with abit of CSS! Monket Calendar An Ajax enabled online calendar. Drag and drop events to change dates, drag the start/end of an event to create multi-day events, create and edit events without refreshing the page, all with an iCal style interface. Quick Calendar Using AJAX and PHP Online calendars are often used in many ...

Creating equal height columns with CSS is not as easy as it may first seem. This tutorial highlights the display problems that occur with multiple column layouts, and then shows a simple solution that works in all common web browsers. The method shown here is 100% CSS hack-free, image-free and JavaScript-free so it can even be used on the most strictly coded websites. http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/equal-height-columns-cross-browser-css-no-hacks ...

When an HTML page contains a small amount of content, the footer can sometimes sit halfway up the page leaving a blank space underneath. This can look bad, particularly on a large screen. Web designers are often asked to push footers down to the bottom of the viewport, but it’s not immediately obvious how this can be done. http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/keeping-footers-at-the-bottom-of-the-page ...