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• How to hide custom post types from the “link to existing content” list in WordPress

  5th April, 2013 by Simon Hampel in WordPress » 1 Comment

  

  When developing a custom WordPress theme for a client we came across an annoying quirk in the WordPress editor user interface. I had added a custom post type to their theme to allow the client to create a database of service providers. However, once their database was populated, we discovered that the “link to existing content” list in the “Insert/edit …

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• To _blank or not to _blank

  25th March, 2013 by Simon Hampel in Web Development » No Comments

  

  Browsing through old posts on my personal blog, I came across an entry about using target="_blank" in href tags in HTML to make links open in a new window when clicked. I had convinced myself that _blank was evil and swore never again would I force the user’s browser to open a new window when clicking a link. However, nearly …

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• Error Code 19 from CD/DVD drive in Windows

  20th March, 2013 by Simon Hampel in Windows » No Comments

  

  My sister-in-law was having some difficulty with her laptop where it was not recognising the DVD drive. She even purchased an external DVD drive on the assumption that the internal drive was broken, however, she also found that it did not worth either. She eventually gave up and asked me to have a look at it. My first approach (after making …

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• Variable scope in WordPress template parts

  15th March, 2013 by Simon Hampel in WordPress » No Comments

  

  I was building a custom WordPress theme for a client site when I came across a frustrating problem with variable scope. I was modularising the theme using template parts, which get loaded using the get_template_part function. This particular template was displaying a list of posts of a custom post_type from a call to the get_posts function and I wanted to be able …

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• “Unable to open URL. Cannot download the information you requested” error in Word/Excel

  13th March, 2013 by Simon Hampel in Software » 1 Comment

  

  A client called me asking for help with a problem on one of their Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. They were creating content for their new website that I was in the process of building and wanted to include bookmarks to content they had already created on the site. Whenever they clicked on a link in their spreadsheet, they received an error …

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