How to Enable Ubercart Product Image Zoom with Gallery Thumbnails
In my experience, ecommerce websites are their own beasts, with all sorts of specialized functionality that doesn’t get requested on other websites. One of the most frequent requests, and often times one of the most difficult to fulfill, is enabling product image zoom functionality along with gallery thumbnails that can seamlessly swap out the main [...]
How to Add Variations to a Drupal Theme
Recently, I did work for a few clients who needed several very similar websites launched in a single project, each of which using an almost identical (yet subtly different) theme. As I started configuring them on Drupal multi-site installations, it got me thinking: Is there a way to take advantage of the same sort of [...]
Code HTML Email Templates by Breaking the Rules
If you’re anything like me, the first time someone told you to make an email template, you thought, “Piece of cake!” After all, emails use HTML (or the types that needs templates do, at any rate), and HTML is a cinch, right? As it turns out, you’d be wrong. HTML is a cinch, but the [...]
Attach Files to Taxonomy Terms in Drupal
From what I can tell, there are plenty of ways to attach files to nodes in Drupal, and even a few ways to attach them to users, but none that I could find to attach them to taxonomy terms (images through the Taxonomy Image module, for sure, but not files in general). My guess is [...]
7 Signals of Comment Spam
Recently, I’ve found myself giving the same advice to several of my clients, many of whom are still getting into the swing of blogging. All too often, they’re uncertain about whether or not to mark a comment as spam. Caught between the desire to avoid spam but foster legitimate conversation, they come to me, and [...]
Selectable Items per Page Hack for Drupal 6 Views
I’m sure regular contributors to Drupal will cringe at what I’m about to show you, but I found it to be a handy trick. Let’s say you’re using the Views module in Drupal 6 and you want a way to dynamically control the number of items listed in a view. In my case, a client [...]
How to Manage External Pages within WordPress
Let’s say you install WordPress in a subdirectory of your site, but you want to use it to manage specific pages in the root directory, as well. The ideal solution would be to move the entire WordPress installation into the root directory, but that may not always be feasible. As it turns out, you can [...]
Elsewhere: Google Analytics Visitor Counts by Hour of Day and Day of Week
I just posted Google Analytics Visitor Counts by Hour of Day and Day of Week on BoldInteractive.com. Good news and bad news. I’m a pessimist realist, so we’ll start with the bad news. Bad news: Your web team says the site has to go down for maintenance. For several hours in the near future, your [...]
How to Hotwire WordPress in 7 Steps
First, let me go ahead and set the right expectation for this article. This is a brief guide to gaining legitimate access to a WordPress site for which you do not know the username or password. This is NOT a guide on hacking a WordPress site. It’s a fine line, but there are legitimate reasons [...]
CSS Menus Made Simple
CSS is wonderful stuff. Really. If you know what you’re doing, you can twist standard, boring HTML elements into almost any display state you like, all while maintaining the sort of semantic accessibility that’s so important for things like SEO and section 508 compliance. One of my favorite examples is turning a standard HTML list [...]