The latest addition to my ever growing list of projects on Github is Blankit – a jQuery plugin for adding target=”_blank” to any matching elements. This was done to avoid the issue of creating a long, content heavy, page and having to go through and manually add target=”_blank” to each a element. This plugin was also contributed to by Seb Pollard, the technical ninja that he is.
Check it out: on github or try out the demo.
In Expression Engine, global variables can be used at template level for many uses. In one of my latest projects, I needed to pass through a specific global variable, but instead of placing the tag in the template I needed to put it directly into my channel entry. Unfortunately, EE2.0 does not natively support this feature.
When looking for a jQuery plugin, it can often get a bit tedious scrolling through page after page of scrollers, carousels and crop tools. At one point I ran into an article named “28 Useful JQuery Sliders You Need To Download”. Twenty-eight?! Blimey.
So, to prove to myself that there was more to jQuery than content scrollers, I did some Google’ing and found 6 really unique jQuery plugins/extensions that are worth taking a look at.
In the latest version of the WordPress blogging platform, the developers have (finally) introduced Custom Post Types, allowing it to become more of a CMS without extensive use of plugins. Unfortunately, after installing the latest version, you’ll probably have noticed that there doesn’t immediatly appear to be any way to create your own. That’s because there is no UI to do this with – doh. The way to do this is to use the recently introducded method register_post_type().
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