Jackson Whelan

I got this question at the Happiness Bar at WordCamp (in front of Andrew Ozz to boot!) also, so I’m committing it to bits here.

function custom_mce_styles( $init ) {
    $init['theme_advanced_buttons2_add_before'] = 'styleselect';
    $init['theme_advanced_styles'] = 'Style Name=styleclass,Style Name2=styleclass2';
    return $init;
}

add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'custom_mce_styles'  );

function my_mce_css() {
    return get_bloginfo( 'template_url' ) . '/editor-style.css';
}

add_filter( 'mce_css', 'my_mce_css' );

Add this to your theme’s functions.php file. Obviously (or not) you’ll replace Style Name=styleclass,Style Name2=styleclass2 with your own comma sep. list of names and classes.

To style the appearance of the display within the visual editor, you need to create an editor stylesheet in your theme folder – ex: editor-style.css

To add the dropdown to the first row, revise line 2:

$init['theme_advanced_buttons1_add_before'] = 'styleselect';

WordPress.org Support Forum Post

This was my first pilgrimage to the annual WordCamp San Francisco. 3 days of WordPress heaven. Sunday I enjoyed volunteering at the ‘Happiness Bar’, helping people with their WordPress problems. Saw some interesting stuff. Great speakers, great venue and crowd.

This painfully simple plugin provides a shortcode for inserting simple contact forms, with JustHumans powered spam protection. JustHumans is one of the most reliable ways of stopping contact form spam in my experience, I highly recommend it and use it frequently.

Download JustHumans Contact Form Plugin

Update: Anders Brownworth has blogged it.

Update: Cloud Sites WP Scanner is now available via the plugins repository:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jw-cloud-sites-wp-scanner/

Use at your own risk. Upload, activate, and visit new menu item. Can remove all world and group permissions. Search options table for backdoors, and posts table for spam links. Also looks for *.bak.php, *.old.php, and *.cache.php files.

Download Cloud Sites WP Scanner

Recently, a client wanted just 1 jumbo mailbox for their domain, larger than what I can provide on my hosting platform. Google Apps Enterprise seemed like the perfect fit. 25 Gigs for a reasonable price on the familiar and popular Gmail platform. Perfect right… yes, until you have a question or need support.

Google’s monolith provides no phone number for support, just online forms where you fire your query off and hope for a timely response or resolution.

It has taken Google Enterprise support – 3 weeks to address my issue. That’s right 3 weeks to troubleshoot an email delivery issue. This is the poorest of poor support/service. For a paid service this is unacceptable.

Bottom line, don’t host anything other than personal email with Google Apps. They are not up to the task when it comes to supporting users who depend on reliable email. There are a ton of reputable hosting companies that do excellent email hosting and -gasp- actually have a phone number you can call for support when things go wrong.

Oh and the best part is the issue still isn’t solved and I must continue waiting for replies to emails.

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The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out. This isn’t about being anti-Microsoft, it’s about making sure that we encourage people to move to modern browsers such as IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. IE6 accounts for up to 20% of web usage, primarily via business users. Clients pressure designers to ’force’ sites to work in IE6, and designers, not wanting to lose business, comply, using hacks and workarounds. This wastes time and money. While Microsoft is encouraging companies and developers to move on from IE6, designers need to unite, and we all need to move on.

Visit: http://www.bringdownie6.com/