Posts Tagged ‘css’

January 15th, 2010

This post written on the WeblogToolsCollection.com forums as a news submission has been well received by plugin developers that have taken notice. The article explains how to include CSS and JavaScript conditionally so that the code is not loaded on every page of the site.
If you think about it, there are many plugins that only do something once in a blue moon. Table of contents, text manipulators, galleries, sliders, etc, etc. If only they loaded their frontend code strictly when necessary, most page loads would suddenly become much lighter.
This technique if implemented by plugin authors sounds like it could have a significant impact on end users websites, especially when it comes to loading times. I’m always impressed with the speed of WordPress when I install a fresh copy without any plugins. WordPress loads very quickly both on the front and back ends. However, once I activate 30 or so [...]

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(10 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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Plugin Review: cSprites for WordPress

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Thaya Kareeson

March 29th, 2009

Weekly Plugin Review, WordPress, WordPress Plugins

What is cSprites for WordPress?
cSprites for WordPress plugin helps speed up your blog by reducing the number of requests made for images. When activated all images within a post will automatically be stitched up and displayed properly as compressed CSS sprites.
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Before activating, all images within a post are being retrieved using separate requests.

After activating, all images are stitched together into one compressed image and retrieved using only one request.

The plugin then uses CSS magic to display these image sprites properly within the post.

Features

Quality and style settings let you specify the compression level for the stitched up image sprite.

Ability to include/exclude certain types.

Cache expiration tuning.

SEO Options for SEO nerds.

What I Like About It
cSprites for WordPress was written to do one thing (convert all post images into compressed image sprites to speed up your blog) and it does it very well.
Installation was very easy. Just download it, activate it, and [...]

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(7 votes, average: 4.57 out of 5)

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Theme Designers And Print.CSS

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Jeff Chandler

May 11th, 2008

WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

Here at WeblogToolsCollection, we see quite a bit of WordPress theme releases coming through our inbox and I’ve noticed a trend. Hardly any of them include printing support. The question I’d like to have answered is why? Is adding printer support to WordPress themes too hard? Does adding this feature take up time? Or is it that this feature is barely any use to anyone?
For those wanting to add this type of support to your theme, you can install WP-Print. WP-Print picks up where most theme authors have left off by providing printing support in such a way that end users can print either articles or comments, depending on how you have configured the plugin.
In fact, doing a search on the plugin database for the keyword of “print” brought up two pages worth of search results. Another solution for you theme authors out there is called Bunny’s Print CSS. This [...]

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(7 votes, average: 4.86 out of 5)

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Create Your Own Admin Color Scheme

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Jeff Chandler

May 3rd, 2008

WordPress Plugins

Here at WeblogToolsCollection.com, we have already discussed how you can change the color scheme in the WordPress 2.5 administration panel from Classic to Fresh. We have also highlighted an awesome plugin that was written by Kaspars which gives users up to 8 different color schemes to choose from. However, what if you want to create your own color scheme? Thanks to a plugin written by James Dimick called Easy Admin Color Schemes, users can now create their own flavor of the WordPress 2.5 back end.

After downloading and installing the plugin, you can access it by browsing to SETTINGS-COLOR SCHEMES. There are three color schemes to start you off, Classic, Fresh and Washedout. The plugin does not allow you to delete nor edit the Classic and Fresh color schemes. This makes sense as you wouldn’t want to screw up a default skin only to have to reinstall WordPress to fix the [...]

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(5 votes, average: 3.80 out of 5)

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WP Plugin: ClassyBody

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Mark Ghosh

January 5th, 2007

LinkyLoo, WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

WP Plugin: ClassyBody Add a class to the body tag of your Wordpress blog depending on various parameters such as single page, page, post, category etc. In other words, it gives you the power to control the look and feel of your blog using CSS but dependent on the condition of your blog that your visitor is viewing. You could make your single pages look different or a single post have a festive theme with modification of the CSS.

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Readability and High Contrast Designs

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Mark Ghosh

August 29th, 2006

General, Web Design

Readability and High Contrast Designs Roger takes on the light text on dark background folks and opns up a can of worms. However, the reasoning is sounds and though the dislike and readability impairment might be limited, the bookmarklet and valuable discussion is worth the read. Do you like dark on light designs as much as light on dark?

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Hot Dates with CSS

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Mark Ghosh

July 4th, 2006

Cool Scripts, LinkyLoo

Hot Dates with CSS Use CSS to format the date of your posts into something that looks like a single page per day calendar. Interesting results.

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Wordpress Plugins for the Admin Side of your Blog

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Ozh

December 30th, 2005

General

For those who are not completely happy with the usability or the look and feel of the back office in their blog, there are a few plugins around, compatible with or made for Wordpress 2.0, that rework or enhance the admin area. I’ll name :

Paged Comment Editing
By default, “Manage Comments” only list the 20 last comments. What if you were on offline holidays for a month and have a blog that receives quite a few feedback ? This plugin allows browsing of older comments with paging through them.
Cat 2 Tag
If you create a lot of categories, this plugin makes selection easier when writing a post : a handy “tag cloud” avoids cumbersome scrolling through a long category list. There is also a fancy “suggest category” feature that proposes categories as you type them.
Wordpress Admin Drop Down Menu
The lazy and the productive will love it : you can go from any [...]

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