Jason Ellis

How to centre absolutely positioned elements on screen

Jason Ellis — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:01:11 +0000

If you want to place absolutely positioned elements in the middle of the screen just do the following:

#some_div{
    width: 150px;
    height: 100px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    margin-top: -50px;/* half of the height */
    margin-left: -75px;/* half of the width */
}

That’s it!

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How to add even and odd classes to posts

Jason Ellis — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:39:59 +0000

Just paste this code within the class attribute of your element and voila!

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Super Easy Way to Display an RSS Feed with PHP

Jason Ellis — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:55:15 +0000

Easy as pie: http://bavotasan.com/2010/display-rss-feed-with-php/

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nth-child Fix for IE 8 and lower

Jason Ellis — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:22:28 +0000

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Reasons why every webmaster should use Google Webmasters Tools – Part 1

Jason Ellis — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:21:43 +0000

It has become common practice for web developers to install Google Analytics on their site to track traffic and visitor stats. However, another great tool that Google provides is Google Webmasters Tools and it is just as important, if not more, simply due to the comprehensive data it gathers. To begin with, once you submit your sitemap, you can see how many urls have been submitted vs. how many have been indexed (there are many reasons why not all url’s get indexed). You can also see all the Crawl errors, which are broken into 4 sections: server errors, soft 404, denied access and not found. From here you can view when each error was first detected, last crawled and even where the link is coming from. This is exceptionally useful when doing 301 redirects, especially when the errors are from an old/outdated source that you have no control over. Sites that have huge traffic and have been around for years end up having all sorts of links all over the web and without 301 redirects, a great deal of users would get the mostly unhelpful 404 page. By doing proper 301 redirects, you avoid loss of website traffic and user frustration.

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A Look At Responsive Web Design

Jason Ellis — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:38:19 +0000

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Creating Custom Single Post Templates for Specific Category

Jason Ellis — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:48:20 +0000

In your single.php just replace this line:

With this one:

Just replace “singlepress.php” with your actual template filename and the category ID with the actual category ID

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How to Create Shorcodes with Atttibutes

Jason Ellis — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:44:33 +0000

If you want to create a button shortcode then just paste this code in your themes functions.php file.

//
function button_func( $atts ) {
	extract( shortcode_atts( array(
		'title' => 'Button',
		'link' => '#',
		'width' => '50',
		'window' => 'self',
	), $atts ) );
		
	return "{$title}";
	
}
add_shortcode( 'button', 'button_func' );

This will return a link called Visit Site that goes to the location specified. The width attribute (in pixels) gives the user control of the width of the button. The rest is pretty straightforward. You can add as many attributes as you need.

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Sticky footer with push div

Jason Ellis — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 07:52:33 +0000

The HTML


    		
    
    
        
	    Your content goes here.
	    
       
       
           This is a sticky footer

The CSS

*{
	margin: 0;
}
	
html,
body{
	height: 100%;
}
			
div#wrapper{
	min-height: 100%;
	height: auto !important;
	height: 100%;
	margin: 0 auto -150px;
}
			
div#footer,
div.push{
	height: 150px;
}

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301 Redirect with PHP

Jason Ellis — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:52:42 +0000

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