Problems with multibyte characters

Byemino Tuesday December 10th, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

There are mb_strlen() and mb_substr() for multibyte characters however there is no mb_str_word_count. Hence my previous post.

Coding | Web

Better bootstrap accordion
Byemino Saturday June 6th, 2015Saturday June 6th, 2015

There are a few issues (things I dont like) about the bootstrap accordion: 1- The title is inline, so you have to click the text part to activate it 2- There is no indication if the item is collapsed or open 3- :hover underlining is obnoxious. To solve all these; simply add the below css:…

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Coding | Note to self

Local timestamp problem
Byemino Tuesday December 10th, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

Always check for local time Despite the fact that my server timezone was set correctly, somehow time() was giving wrong ( UTC) hour. So i ended up using wp’s functions to make sure. $now = current_time( ‘timestamp’, 0 ) ;$local_ts = get_the_time(‘U’,$post->ID);

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Note to self | wordpress

Page template pagination fix
Byemino Friday February 7th, 2014Saturday June 6th, 2015

If you are using “page-template”s you’ll have problems with pagination since pages are not meant to display posts and some people frown upon using page-templates for custom archive display, but it’s sometimes the simplest way. Anyway the solution is 1.) to nullify the global $wpquery 2.) adding ‘paged’ => $paged arg. before displaying your posts…

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Detecting the ‘crazy’ letters
Byemino Thursday January 16th, 2014Saturday June 6th, 2015

It’s always a pain to work with multibyte characters; most fonts only support ISO-8859-1 English letters. I was working with Imagemagick but some of the strings contained Arabic, Chinese, Russian letters, even some Chinese / Korean, and i did not want to end up with ???’s instead of non-supported characters all over the place. The…

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Empty string passed to getElementById() bootstrap dropdown menu
Byemino Wednesday September 6th, 2017Wednesday September 6th, 2017

Just use javascript:void(0) instead of # for href You might encounter this error most likely in Firefox Console

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Making postcode / zipcode not required on woocommerce and changing its name
Byemino Thursday March 31st, 2016Thursday March 31st, 2016

View the code on Gist.

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