It’s this the main query?

Posted on April 28, 2012   in  Web Development No comments

The main query in a WordPress site is the query based on the URL being accessed. When you access this post’s single page, the URL indicates the main query is the text you are reading right now. The “Recent Posts” …

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Displaying Custom Post Types by Term

Posted on March 14, 2012   in  Web Development No comments

It’s documented, it’s used, but it wasn’t obvious to me. After hunting around, I finally found what I needed in the first place I looked: the WordPress Codex. This is the wp_query argument needed to display posts assigned a particular …

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Conditional Display of Widgets in WordPress

Posted on March 14, 2012   in  Web Development No comments

Many times I’ve needed to display or hide a widget based on some condition. Usually that condition is which page is being served. That’s easy enough with my own widgets by wrapping the output in an if statement employing a …

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Slow Mail.app in Lion OS X 10.7

Posted on March 12, 2012   in  Mac OS X No comments

I recently helped a client with a terribly crippled Mail.app on their Mac. They had upgraded to 10.7 (Lion) from 10.6 (Snow Leopard) not long ago and are a heavy user of Mail.app. Unfortunately, as seamless as upgrading OS X often is, installing …

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Useful Terminal Commands for Remote Computing

Posted on January 19, 2012   in  Mac OS X No comments

These commands are especially useful in remote access situations, using ssh. See my post about SSH here. These commands all work in OS X 10.7 Lion. Many of them will not work in earlier versions of OS X. Screen Sharing …

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Remote Login (ssh)

Posted on January 18, 2012   in  Mac OS X No comments

I find “Remote Login” an incredibly useful tool. On a daily basis I employ it to transfer files, screen share, and directly access the shell. Turning this on (located in the Sharing pane of System Preferences) enables the local SSH …

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