Category Archives: hacking

Spell check all text fields in Firefox

By sam | Published: November 30, 2011

Firefox has a built-in spell checker, but by default it only works on text fields of more than one line. However, you can make it spellcheck all fields with the following steps: Start up Firefox. Type “about:config” into the address bar in Firefox and hit enter. Click “I’ll be careful, I promise!” (if the warning [...]

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WordPress network on Dreamhost

By sam | Published: March 12, 2011

WordPress, as of version 3.0, allows you to set up more than one site within the same installation. Each site uses the same core software and users can use the same credentials in all the sites they have access to across the network. Essentially, it allows you to set up a mini WordPress.com. Since I [...]

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WP Plugin: Widget Context

By sam | Published: August 13, 2010

Last night I ran across a WordPress plugin called Widget Context by Kaspars Dambis. The plugin gives you the ability to control on what context any widget will show up in, allowing you to narrow down widget content to certain types of posts / pages, to certain categories and URL’s. It’s really useful and allowed [...]

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Single-sign-on with frames and javascript

By sam | Published: July 14, 2010

Warning: this is about finding workable solutions and some of the methods are used because they are a solution not because they promote the cleanest HTML. You might run across <frame> in this article. Apologies to the HTML5 community. Most web apps don’t give web developers many tools to integrate directly with their login system. [...]

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