Author: robst

Adding a link to a WordPress image caption

In many blog posts of mine, I am using images and sometimes I even publish posts whose only content is an image. I have been asked by other bloggers, how I add a link to another site within WordPress’ native image-caption. Especially using the WordPress.com network, there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to use a link in an image caption. Though, the riddle’s solution is fairly easy, though.

Sometimes,

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Giving side by side div same height

I believe that anybody that was involved in developing website at least once, was wondering how you could give two or more DIV containers the same height. Usually this problem occurs if you cannot or do not want to give those containers their height in absolute pixel values. Obviously, there are different approaches for a column layout to achieve this. One of them being the Faux-Column-Technique that uses a vertically repeated background image.

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Remove the category ID from page title using sh404SEF

Since this tip might come in handy for many others out there, I decided to write this little tutorial in English. Since I am not a native speaker, I apologize for my poor language. If you have any questions to this tutorial, feel free to add a comment. I’ll reply back!

So you are using VirtueMart on Joomla and you are using the SEF-extension sh404SEF?

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How to use iframes in Joomla!

I haven’t been working a lot with Joomla! yet, but it seems to be yet another content management system. It has its advantages (which I could not name yet), its disadvantages and its challenges. What would web-development be like without challenges?

I minor challenge that I recently faced was the inclusion of “foreign” website content at another place. I’m not talking about stealing content from another site. I wanted –

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Unglaublich: Der Gefrierfachtrick funktioniert beim iPhone!

Man muss schon Jegliche Art von Verschwörungstheorien ablehnen, um nicht daran zu glauben, dass etwas dahinter steckt wenn drei Tage vor dem neuen iPhone-Release das alte Gerät den Geist aufgibt. Bei mir war es die W-LAN-Funktion (-Antenne, oder was weiss ich), von anderen iPhones hörte ich selbiges Problem, wieder andere verfingen sich in einer Boot-Schleife. Merkwürdiger Zufall!

Seit etwa einer Woche nun bin ich ohne den Komfort von Wi-Fi unterwegs. Das schlimmste daran war,

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How to add your iTunes podcasts as bloggroll to WordPress

When I started my own blog, I wanted to have a list of my favourite podcasts that I had subscribed to with iTunes. Manually adding them as links to WordPress seemed to be too much work, so I had to find an easier way to add them all, since it’s been quite many podcasts. So here’s a little quick-and-dirty walk through how to semi-autmatically add a bunch of podcasts subscriptions from iTunes to your WordPress blog as a blogroll.

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