Posts by Bryan Hoffman
The Double Opt In Email Introduction
Since I’ve been somewhat opinionated in the past regarding email etiquette, a recent post by Anand Sanwal at Quartz got me nodding my head. You’re probably doing email introductions wrong Anand describes the situation where one person is introducing two others by way of email – and the right and wrong way to do it.…
Read MoreWordPress Admin Bar Break Points
If you’re building a responsive site with a fixed header, you may have run into troubles with content below the header fitting correctly, depending on what screen size your viewing at here’s a quick rundown of the breakpoints that WordPress currently (4.1.2) uses: 1. 0 – 600px Position: Absolute, 46px height. This bar scrolls up…
Read MoreHide xScope floating toolbar
I’ve had this floating xScope toolbar on my desktop for a few weeks, getting in the way. I use the xScope from the OS X menu bar so it’s been pretty annoying having to move it. To remove it I checked the preferences, but there’s nothing there. Turns out it’s pretty easy once you find…
Read MoreSave notes to Evernote from Sublime Text
For a few years now I’ve used Snippets for keeping track of code snippets. It’s been a fine app, but recently has become slow, looks funny on Yosemite, and I get the feeling it’s become vaporware. Since I use Evernote for keeping track of lots of things, both business and personal, I thought I’d look…
Read MoreAdmitted WOT Fanantic
I don’t play as many games as I used to, for all the same reasons you don’t anymore either. But World of Tanks has caught my son and I and it’s been a blast. We started out with the iOS version (WOT Blitz), and have recently discovered that there’s a World of Tanks port to…
Read MoreUsing ‘admin’ as a username is not awesome
WordPress stopped auto filling in the ‘admin’ username on install a while ago in version 3.7, but that doesn’t mean someone can’t fill it in that way themselves. Here’s a screenshot that shows why this is a bad idea: I get these bruteforce notifications multiple times a day. Here’s a few other usernames they…
Read MoreUpdating SEO Yoast through MainWP breaks permalinks
April 10 Update: MainWP Support found the issue. Apparently there was conflict between the way MainWP handles updates and the way WordPress SEO by Yoast updates when custom post types were involved. The latest version of both the MainWP Dashboard (2.0.10) and MainWP Child (2.0.10) adds additional checks for these types of updates. April 1…
Read MoreGoodbye This is a Generic Brand Video
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtspm8j8M] Up until about a week ago the home page of Spigot contained the video above as a background to our main marquee window. I’d gotten permission from Dissolve to put it there when we pushed Spigot v 11.2 live in January of last year. We’d originally thought of producing our own video, complete…
Read MoreShow the year only if it’s not the current year in WordPress
A recent project required that the post date show the year only if it wasn’t written in the current year. Here’s how it’s done with WordPress: [php] <span class="date"> <?php if ( get_the_time(‘Y’) == date(‘Y’)) { ?> <?php the_time(‘M j’) ?> <?php } else { ?> <?php the_time(‘M j, Y’) ?> <?php } ?> </span>…
Read MoreFight for Space
I’m very glad to have chosen design as a career path. But if I had to do it all over, I’d be an astronaut. I’d be Chris Hadfield. I grew up watching Shuttle launches in class, and remember vividly the day the Challenger exploded. I keep this on my desk: When the last Shuttle touched…
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