Leave out those boring grid-style photo galleries. Create beautiful mosaic-style mobile-friendly photo galleries for your custom ILN blog. Impress your visitors.
The Crazy Ones – Steve Jobs
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Be Inspired. Achieve Your Dream.
Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something. You’ve got a dream. You’ve got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.
JWPlayer Create Playlist from Directory with PHP
Use JWPlayer to play an mp3 playlist. This file will pull an mp3 files within the music/ directory and build the RSS playlist.
Google Chrome’s Spell Checker
Over the past several years, I’ve been using Mozilla Firefox as my browser of choice. A few months ago, I made a fulltime switch over to Chrome. (Sorry Internet Explorer, you are just a disappointment) Now, I’m not going to blab about why I left Firefox (Flash was constantly crashing the browser) or talk about [...]
Creating an Image with ImageMagick
Recently, I wanted to create an image that contained the post title and I wanted to create that on-the-fly when the post was saved. I used ImageMagick and some PHP. Here is the code I wrote to create the image. This is before I implemented it into WordPress. You will need ImageMagick installed. You can check if [...]
If You’re Blogging to Sell Products Then You Will Fail, I Promise
Internet Lifestyle Network – I promise you will fail if you are trying to sell your products or service on your blog. Why are some blogs highly profitable and others crash and burn? The successful blogs sell without selling through relationship building.
Amazon S3 CDN URL Mask
Each Amazon S3 Bucket has a long url that can be difficult to remember . Here is how I used the Amazon S3 account as a CDN to distribute my plugins. First, login into your hosting account’s cPanel and click on Simple DNS Zone Editor.
Resize Video Function ‘on the fly’ with PHP
I just wrote this function to resize video elements for my WordPress Lightbox Plugin. This specific script is designed to be used with an ajax call within the WordPress Dashboard. Edit to fit your needs.
Add Shortcodes to Text Widgets
Are you thinking of using a plugin that uses shortcodes? (Shortcodes are tags in square brackets like [bubbles id="10"] that some plugins use to embed content into posts and pages.) But what if you want to be able to use a shortcode in your blog’s sidebar instead of your post or page?
