Jul
12
2009
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

Download
Download theme
66 comments | tags: lynx friendly wordpress theme, wordpress accessibility guide, wordpress theme for low vision readers
Jul
8
2009
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;’>$tag_name</a>”;
And there you go. If you upgrade your Worpress install make sure you back the category file up, as it may overwrite it.
130 comments | tags: remove wordpress tag links, wordpress rel=tag, wordpress tag pages
Jul
5
2009
This is a very simple plugin that adds an add to digg button (as you can see on this site). It adds a link and image of the form http://digg.com/submit/?url=$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.
155 comments | tags: add to digg, digg wordpress
Jul
5
2009
.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:

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
Convendro
64 comments | tags: .net ffmpeg gui, Apple iPod Video, Blackberry Curve, convert xvid to ipod, Cowon iAudio, DVD NTSC + PAL, Flash FLV H264 for web, iRiver, MP3 Audio (lame conversion), Mpeg 4, mpencoder, Neuros HQ, OGG (Open source audio), Palm, PS3, PSP, Quicktime, Toshiba Gigabeat, VCD, Wave (for CD's etc), WMA (Windows media audio), Xbox 360, xvid