When someone clicks outside of the lightbox area, it is closed by default, this can cause a lot of frustration to a visitor, if you are thinking of opening a series of pages inside a lightbox. The following short tutorial describes how you can disable the closing of the lightbox window when someone clicks outside the lightbox area.
Every time you save the changes on a post or a page WordPress keeps a revision of your content as a backup. But a long list of post revisions might slow your blog down and use more resources than normal, so here is how to delete, limit or disable the post revisions in WordPress.
The following guide describes the steps that need to be followed in order to trigger javascript code successfully when the Facebook like button is clicked. Using the following implementation you can also track all the clicks on the like button of your site by triggering the Google analytics tracking code.
Create a new MCC account for a google user that already has adwords. Follow the steps to upgrade to an Adwords MCC account.
Recover magento and wordpress password using phpMyAdmin
A quality website should always keep track of the its loading time. A slow loading landing page not only impacts your conversion rate, but can also impact AdWords landing page quality and ranking in Google search. To improve the performance of your site, you first have to diagnose and measure the speed of it. After measuring your site’s speed, it is critical to take the necessary actions to improve it, which can be a challenging task. This article presents some of the tools you can use to measure your website’s speed and also keep track of its performance. Google Analytics The new version...
When you develop a new website or apply design changes on an existing one, it is essential to test the crossbrowser compatibility of your design in more than one browsers. This process is called crossbrowser compatibility testing. In order to do all the necessary checks you either have to install all the browsers you wish to test on your own pc or use a 3rd party service that displays you website exactly like it would appear in each browser. There is a wide range of services for this purspose, the following 3 are the ones that from my point of view offer...
I recently encountered a strange bug using the Twitterizer API. I couldn’t call “GetAccessToken” without getting a 401 error. After searching about it, I found out that other people encountered the same bug by calling the “GetRequestToken” method (see more info here). The correct way to get an access token using the twitterizer API is using the following source code sequence: The source code above may crash on the last line. The bug is probably caused by wrong timestamps, Twitter is sensitive to server time inaccuracies. The rash of issues lately is apparently caused by the clocks on Twitter’s servers being...
The following source code came in handy for me, when I decided I wanted to show only the top level category in the top navigation menu of a magento store, and only show the child categories in a page whenever the top level category is clicked. This is very useful if one of your top categories contains a lot of subcategories, that will create a giant list in the drop-down menu when the visitor hovers over it. First you have to set the sub categories as active in the magento administrator panel, but the option “Include in navigation menu” should...
What is jailbreaking? Is it legal? Jailbreaking is the process of gaining root level control of an iDevice and accessing its command line in order to make modifications, remove limitations, and customize the device. This allows users to: Install applications not found/allowed in the App Store. Make modifications to the Springboard, as well as the OS. Customize the device with themes. Under the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) of 2010, jailbreaking is legal. Apple claims that it voids your warranty, but the process is easily reversible. What is pirating? Is it legal? Pirating is the copying, distributing, or downloading of unauthorized...
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