Simple Machines 1.1.4 and 1.0.12 Released

The SMF team announced that they have released both the 1.1.4 and 1.0.12 versions of their forum software. Primarily a bug fix release these two releases fix the following issues. From the SMF site: * Inline modification of a board which had moderators was not working correctly. * Stop CDATA blocks breaking preview/quick modify. * [...]

How to embed YouTube videos in SMF forum

There is a mod for SMF that allows you to embed YouTube videos fairly easily, but I didn’t find it until after I worked out a way that I think works as well and doesn’t take a separate modification, plus it’s pretty mindless to add Google or Yahoo videos as well. I had the Custom [...]

WordPress plugin to view user meta data

One of the really great, although probably overlooked by most users, features of WordPress is that you can store meta data on your users. You probably already know that you can do this for posts, but it’s possible to use the _usermeta table to keep track of custom user settings as well.

Retro Mac WordPress theme

Stuart Brown has released a WordPress theme called Retro MacOS. I’ll admit that I grew up in DOS so this one doesn’t have quite the nostalgic kick that it may for others, but it’s still pretty cool.

Using AJAX to get city and state from zip code

This is something that I wrote a few years ago when I first started using AJAX type calls in my programs. It will allow you to enter a zip code, either 5 or 9 digit, and will load the city into a text field and state into a dropdown. If the city field is blank [...]