Comments for Eric Lightbody

Comment on Adding multiple sidebars (and other elements) to your wordpress theme by João

João — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 17:00:02 +0000

Hi Eric

Thanks for mentioning the Delicious Cached++ plugin. I have recently refactored, and it now allows multiple widgets in a native (and more natural way). The “Delicious Cached++” widget appears only once, and you can add it multiple times (with independent settings – e.g., show bookmarks from different tags in each widget).

Let me know if you have more curiosity on how to allow multiple widgets in a WordPress plugin!

Comment on Proper JSON encoding with PHP by elightbo

elightbo — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:54:50 +0000

In reply to David Lundgren. I had no idea that parse_ini_file() behaved like that. Will have to keep that in mind.

Comment on Proper JSON encoding with PHP by David Lundgren

David Lundgren — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:55:10 +0000

I always wondered why those api’s would occasionally return null instead of the data, and I never had enough time to figure it out. I’m glad you found it, and hopefully I’ll remember this for future JSON adventures.

One other function that needs this treatment is parse_ini_file(). When it can’t parse the file it issues warnings. I found it beneficial to call error_get_last() when it returns false, at least then you can throw more meaningful exceptions.

Comment on Proper JSON encoding with PHP by elightbo

elightbo — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:33:32 +0000

In reply to Chris Smith. One other thing I noticed in the comments of json_encode, but have yet to verify is that:

Although this is not documented on the version log here, non-UTF8 handling behaviour has changed in 5.5, in a way that can make debugging difficult. Passing a non UTF-8 string to json_encode() will make the function return false in PHP 5.5, while it will only nullify this string (and only this one) in previous versions.

Comment on Proper JSON encoding with PHP by Chris Smith

Chris Smith — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:09:44 +0000

This is interesting and I never knew about json_last_error_msg(). It is interesting because json_encode() claims to show false on error. I wonder what would happen if you set the option JSON_PARTIAL_OUTPUT_ON_ERROR if anything would come back.

Comment on Textmate to vim – Part one by MaerF0x0

MaerF0x0 — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:48:20 +0000

Check out my vim setup

https://github.com/MaerF0x0/VimSetup

Comment on Adding multiple sidebars (and other elements) to your wordpress theme by Prasad Padwal

Prasad Padwal — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:19:17 +0000

You Can also try this http://www.wordpressguide.in/want-different-sidebar-for-different-category.html

it is easy and simple !

Comment on TweetiePie for WordPress by Jim

Jim — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:31:31 +0000

I’ve had frustrations with other twitter plug-ins. Will try this one out. Thanks, Eric. Hope this will work on my blog nicely.

Comment on Using NextGEN gallery to bring an image gallery to your WordPress blog by 4nton

4nton — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:01:39 +0000

Hello,
what I am trying to do is instead of putting the shortcode [nggallery id=1] in my blog post content I would like it to copy it in a custome field so that I can place it anywhere in my theme. but it doesn’t work that way. any ideas?

Comment on Using NextGEN gallery to bring an image gallery to your WordPress blog by Wood Railing

Wood Railing — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:19:47 +0000

I just learned how to add a next gen gallery to a category archive page, like this one about my custom deck balusters http://awoodrailing.com/deck-balusters/

Here is the link to the help thread on wordpress forum:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-gallery-in-template?replies=12