Facebook Open Graph tags for WordPress

Maybe you heard about the Opengraph Tags used by Facebook ? Basically “including Open Graph tags on your Web page, makes your page equivalent to a Facebook Page”:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/

And yes, you’ll get a nice like Thumbnail of your web page using this stuff (knowing that the share function is now deprecated: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/ and has been replaced with like).

This is a quick code for WordPress (minimal tags), just adapt, then copy & paste to your wordpress theme header:

Find out the source code source :]

Wondering about the license, version, and the original project of that piece of code you’ve got ? Just use this new search engine to find out:

http://www.antepedia.com/

Get RSS feed of a Twitter account

There’s a very simple trick to get the RSS feed of any Twitter account, check it out:

Twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/w3c

RSS Feed: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/w3c.rss

Most of all, it works for any Twitter account !

 

MySQL Can’t create/write to file MYI Error

If you’re a McAfee Antivirus user and you get this kind of message in phpMyAdmin whenever you perform a query on your DB :

“Can’t create/write to file ‘xxx.MYI’ (Errcode: 13)”

Just exclude the MYI and MYD filetypes from your antivirus detection system (add them to Exceptions).

Joomla Language Variables Override

I you’re already using Joomla Overrides , you’ve probably wondered how to also override language variables and not only output, here’s the solution:

1. Create a language file for you template, ie:

/language/en-GB/en-GB.tpl_templatename.ini

2. Add the following line to your output overrides:

JPlugin::loadLanguage( ‘tpl_templatename’ )

That’s it !

Howto: Enable localhost mail function on XAMPP

You’ll find a lot of tips about how to do that, this is what worked for me ( SMTP only )

Open xampp\apache\bin\php.ini

Check the line :

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.

And enter your SMTP Server parameters :

SMTP = yoursmtpserver
smtp_port = 25

It should work.

Use Internet Explorer without Windows nor Emulation

Wonder how ? If you want to render a page or a website in all IE versions starting from 5.5, just try :

 

 

A Firefox extension can be found here.

To add the service to your website paste this code on the body :

<form method="post" id="form" name="form" action="http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php"
accept-charset="utf-8" target="_blank">

<select name="browser" style="width: 145px;">

<option value="ie8">Internet Explorer 8</option>

<option value="ie7">Internet Explorer 7</option>

<option value="ie6" selected="selected">Internet Explorer 6</option>

<option value="ie55">Internet Explorer 5.5</option>

<option value="ie-mix">IE7-IE6 Mixed</option>

<option value="ie-diff">IE7-IE6 Difference</option></select>&nbsp;

<input name="url" id="url" value="http://" size="61" maxlength="240" type="text">

<input name="go" value="Render" type="submit">

</form>

Another extension for all browsers rendering is available here but it’s still experimental and needs a trial registration to BrowserCam Capture Service.

 

 

You can also test your page in 23 browsers with litmus but you’ll have to pay (Only IE7 and FF2 rendering are free)

Best Smileys / Emoticons Pack

Are you looking for beautiful and classy emoticons pack for your website or forum ? Check this one :

Mac Themes 2 Smilies by the talentuous David Lanham

(click on the picture)

Best Open Source Resources for Web Developers

It’s all in the title, if you wanna stay connected check this website it’s full of excellent stuff and always updated.

Joomla: Best Free Hosting for Joomla 1.5

Yes it exists ! I’ve tried several free hosting solutions for Joomla 1.5.8, every time I had problems , with zymic there’s an unsolvable sessions problem (forget about admin panel) ,Freehostia works well but there’s a severe file size limit (no more flv videos) and the mail() function is disabled (no contact form),000webhost.com is a complete cr**p,