Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • rel=”canonical”-URL for WordPress Theme

    Duplicate content is always an issue in search engines, especially in the context of content management systems and blogging applications. Therefore, they decided together (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) for a notice using the link tag. In essence, provides the tag with the rel attribute canonical only a reference to the preferred URL. Once again a…

  • Secure Your Mail With WordPress Antispambot Function

    A little-known feature in WordPress is antispambot() from the wp-includes/formatting.php. It is a kind obfuscator of the email address. It doesn’t create a clickable mailto link. Our e-mail with antispambot in the source code looks like this:

  • WordCamp in Germany and WordCamp in Dallas – What’s different?

    Last weekend I had the pleasure to be at the WordCamp Germany in Jena. It was great to meet many people there for the first time, even my team mates Frank and Micha. We never met in person before. So that was exciting but also other online friends and people I work with, like Sergej,…

  • Plugin Review: Codestyling Localization

    Heiko Rabe, a very talented Plugin-Developer created a plugin, which comes just in time: Codestyling Localisation. Since I am currently developing a premium WordPress theme, which I like to have multilingual, this plugin is an excellent alternative to PoEdit. Compare to PoEdit this Plugin has the decisive advantage that you can translate a theme or…

  • WordPress 2.8 body_class, automatic_feed_links

    Template Tag body_class The coming WordPress 2.8 provides a new Template Tag, body_class. This function gives the body element different classes, which gives you the possibility to use it effectively with CSS.

  • Change your WordPress Theme on Dependency

    WordPress is sometimes not only in use as a blog platform, also as CMS application or for a presentation of photos or other purposes. Many times you like to have a different design depending on the purpose of your WordPress blog within your website. Thus, most of the photo blogs having a different design than…