Jul 12 2009

Accessibility Theme for WordPress

I had a look through the WordPress theme directory and was surprised to see no themes designed with accessibiliy for low vision readers in mind. So using the Sandbox theme and the BBC’s own Betsie Low Vision Parser (a great Perl script to make your website low vision freidnly) I quickly made my own, here is a screenshot:

Screenshot

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Download

Download theme


Jul 8 2009

How to remove the links from tags in WordPress

You may have noticed on this blog that the tags don’t have hyper links associated with them (go on, hover over one and have a look for yourself).

The reason I’ve done this is two fold:

The page rank of a blog can dissapear into all those tag pages, meaning google can’t work out if the most important pages are your posts of your tags

I don’t want people coming to my ugly tag pages, I want them coming straight to the posts.

In some circumstances you may feel a simliar way, and if you want to remove the links from your tags here is how to do it:

  • Open up wp-includes/category-template.php
  • Around line 890 change the following code (old code is commented out)
  • //    $term_links[] = ‘<a href=”‘ . $link . ‘” rel=”tag”>’ . $term->name . ‘</a>’;
    $term_links[] = $term->name;
  • Around line 670 make the following code change
  • $a[] = “$tag_name”;
    //        $a[] = “<a href=’$tag_link’ class=’tag-link-$tag_id’ title=’” . esc_attr( $topic_count_text_callback( $count ) ) . “‘$rel style=’font-size: ” .
    //            ( $smallest + ( ( $count – $min_count ) * $font_step ) )
    //            . “$unit;’>$tag_name</a>”;

And there you go. If you upgrade your Worpress install make sure you back the category file up, as it may overwrite it.


Jul 5 2009

Add to Digg WordPress plugin

This is a very simple plugin that adds an add to digg button (as you can see on this site). It adds a link and image of the form http://digg.com/submit/?url=$permalink.

Download

Download zip (3kb)

Installation instructions

1. Add a directory called ‘addtofacebook’ (without the quotes) to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
1. Upload addtofacebook.php and facebook_share_icon.gif to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/add-to-facebook-plugin/’ directory.
1. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
1. Go to ‘Options->Add to Facebook’ in your admin interface to select you options.

1.  Add a directory called ‘addtodigg ‘/wp-content/plugins/ and unzip the files there.

1. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress, click settings to change options.

License

Released under the GNU GPL.


Jul 5 2009

.net FFMPEG GUI

.net FFMPEG UI is a GUI for the excellent video and audio converter, FFMPEG. It features a drag and drop batching interface, presets (mostly taken from Win FF) and is open source.
Presets include:
MP3 Audio (lame conversion)
WMA (Windows media audio)
Wave (for CD’s etc)
OGG (Open source audio)
Apple iPod Video
DVD NTSC + PAL
VCD
Mpeg 4
Xvid
Quicktime
Flash FLV H264 for web
Blackberry Curve
Toshiba Gigabeat
iRiver
Neuros HQ
Palm
Cowon iAudio
Xbox 360
PS3
PSP

.net FFMPEG UI is a Windows graphical interface for the excellent video and audio converter, FFMPEG. It features a drag and drop batching interface, presets (mostly taken from Win FF) and is open source.

Downloads:

Download ZIP file

Download MSI Install file

Support:

Click here to visit the support forum

Screenshots:

netffmpeggui

Source:

Click here to download the source code (Zip, .net Visual C# 2005)

Released under the GPL, much source thanks to Win FF and ExplorerDragAndDrop.

Presets include:

MP3 Audio (lame conversion)

WMA (Windows media audio)

Wave (for CD’s etc)

OGG (Open source audio)

Apple iPod Video

DVD NTSC + PAL

VCD

Mpeg 4

Xvid

Quicktime

Flash FLV H264 for web

Blackberry Curve

Toshiba Gigabeat

iRiver

Neuros HQ

Palm

Cowon iAudio

Xbox 360

PS3

PSP

FFMPEG User Interfaces:

WinFF

Super

AutoFF

Avanti

AutoFF

XpegT GuiForFFmpeg

GVC ffmpeg gui

SmartFFmpeg

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