Evagoras Charalambous http://www.evagoras.com Independent IT Solutions Provider Fri, 17 May 2013 14:43:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 WordPress friendly URLs/404s with Lighttpd and things that can go wrong http://www.evagoras.com/2012/11/09/wordpress-friendly-urls404s-with-lighttpd-and-things-that-can-go-wrong/ http://www.evagoras.com/2012/11/09/wordpress-friendly-urls404s-with-lighttpd-and-things-that-can-go-wrong/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:55:59 +0000 Evagoras Charalambous http://www.evagoras.com/?p=970 While the Wordpress permalinks and friendly 404 page appeared to be working just fine on the public site after being added to the Lighttpd configuration, things were breaking in the Wordpress Admin section.

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]]> http://www.evagoras.com/2012/11/09/wordpress-friendly-urls404s-with-lighttpd-and-things-that-can-go-wrong/feed/ 0 How to handle and customize an empty search query in WordPress http://www.evagoras.com/2012/11/01/how-to-handle-and-customize-an-empty-search-query-in-wordpress/ http://www.evagoras.com/2012/11/01/how-to-handle-and-customize-an-empty-search-query-in-wordpress/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:01:41 +0000 Evagoras Charalambous http://www.evagoras.com/?p=931 There is a way to bypass the default Wordpress functionality which displays the home page's children when a user submits an empty search query, and instead display a "No search results found" in your normal search results theme template.

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]]> http://www.evagoras.com/2012/11/01/how-to-handle-and-customize-an-empty-search-query-in-wordpress/feed/ 3 WordPress and ColdFusion – The Best of Two Worlds? http://www.evagoras.com/2012/05/18/wordpress-and-coldfusion-the-best-of-two-worlds/ http://www.evagoras.com/2012/05/18/wordpress-and-coldfusion-the-best-of-two-worlds/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 18:22:09 +0000 Evagoras Charalambous http://www.evagoras.com/?p=873 A quick look into how the WordPress posts tables are set up and a custom view query that can be used within ColdFusion to loop through the posts or pages.

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]]> http://www.evagoras.com/2012/05/09/joining-images-diagonally/feed/ 1 Using jQuery and ColdFusion to collect emails http://www.evagoras.com/2011/07/15/using-jquery-and-coldfusion-to-collect-emails/ http://www.evagoras.com/2011/07/15/using-jquery-and-coldfusion-to-collect-emails/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:02:16 +0000 Evagoras Charalambous http://www.evagoras.com/?p=637 I’ve implemented similar functionality on numerous sites by now, and I thought I would write up a short post on how to do this using jQuery and ColdFusion. The goal is to create a simple form text input which will collect someone’s email and add it to a database table. Basic stuff, with just a ...

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]]> http://www.evagoras.com/2011/07/15/using-jquery-and-coldfusion-to-collect-emails/feed/ 1 The dangers of using cfquery maxRows http://www.evagoras.com/2011/03/02/the-dangers-of-using-cfquery-maxrows/ http://www.evagoras.com/2011/03/02/the-dangers-of-using-cfquery-maxrows/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:54:04 +0000 Evagoras Charalambous http://www.evagoras.com/?p=514 In a conversation that I was involved with yesterday, someone mentioned how useful cfquery maxRows is and how they like using it. I was pretty sure at the time that this cfquery cross-database attribute comes at a cost, but I thought I had better double check it. As it turns out, I was right and if ...

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]]> http://www.evagoras.com/2011/03/02/the-dangers-of-using-cfquery-maxrows/feed/ 3 jQuery custom namespace attribute selectors used for filtering HTML http://www.evagoras.com/2011/02/28/jquery-custom-namespace-attribute-selectors-used-for-filtering-html/ http://www.evagoras.com/2011/02/28/jquery-custom-namespace-attribute-selectors-used-for-filtering-html/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:58:54 +0000 Evagoras Charalambous http://www.evagoras.com/?p=491 I better blog about this before I forget how to do it. I recently worked on a project where I had to find a way to filter the results on a page using jQuery and custom HTML namespace selectors through a search box. There may be plenty of ways of doing this – probably a ...

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]]> http://www.evagoras.com/2011/02/28/jquery-custom-namespace-attribute-selectors-used-for-filtering-html/feed/ 2 A ColdFusion weather custom tag http://www.evagoras.com/2011/02/10/a-coldfusion-weather-custom-tag/ http://www.evagoras.com/2011/02/10/a-coldfusion-weather-custom-tag/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:07:37 +0000 Evagoras Charalambous http://www.evagoras.com/?p=419 This custom tag will allow you to easily add a weather control to your website. Using the XML data feeds from weather.com we can produce owesome looking weather controls, both for current conditions and for forecasts. This control has a multitude of attributes, is fully customizable, easy to use, comes with example templates, and full source code provided.

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]]> http://www.evagoras.com/2011/02/10/a-coldfusion-weather-custom-tag/feed/ 9 A ColdFusion color picker custom tag http://www.evagoras.com/2011/02/10/a-coldfusion-color-picker-custom-tag/ http://www.evagoras.com/2011/02/10/a-coldfusion-color-picker-custom-tag/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:33:10 +0000 Evagoras Charalambous http://www.evagoras.com/?p=411 We'll learn how to create and use a ColdFusion custom tag, that will add a color picker field to a form and make it easy to select a web safe color. No popups were harmed during the making of this article!

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