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wp simple blocks plugin

Just saving this here for later testing: This is just AI generated crap that does not work, ignore it... ;)   Absolutely, let’s start fresh with a simple WordPress plugin that loads a si..

6:38 am, February 27, 2025
html
CSSnowflakes simple snowflakes non-JS snowflakes for your website

i like this one as its a nice and simple copy and paste effect that just covers the whole site and does not get in the way of other things like some other scripts i have come across. 

1:03 am, December 10, 2024
php simple html dom
find a custom data attribute in simple html dom

locate the div based on a custom data attribute, in this case the data-field="regularMarketChange" full docs

12:39 pm, March 13, 2024
simple_html_dom
Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: invalid range in character class at offset 4 in simple_html_dom.php on line 722

Initial thought on this error is that there is a version issue. This only happened on version 1.11 for me, will check what other version i have.  Yep not sure why but the older version of php ht..

5:02 am, April 18, 2023
php errors
error Warning: getimagesize(uploads/583517f49099a.jpg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in SimpleImage.php on line 1198

i think this error is just caused by a missing file. But there should be some kind of error checking here to not crash the whole site just due to a missing image file. this error is quite hard to fin..

7:07 am, April 11, 2023
charts
Simple Line chart with Chart.js

a nice simple line chart example with fill using chart.js

11:58 pm, April 3, 2023
simplepie php
return author title from simplepie rss atom feed

i was just returning the author from this, and for some reason it returns a number. $class->$target_item = $item->get_author(); where you also need to pass the get_name function to this to ext..

2:47 am, October 1, 2022
simplepie php
simple pie get link from enclosure item in simplepie rss feed

i had an item like this in a rss feed, and i wanted to grab the enclosure url, took me a while to figure this out for some reason even though the solution is quite simple.  PHP <item> &l..

4:33 am, September 29, 2022
php functions
simplepie error : XML or PCRE extensions not loaded!

using simplepie it does not load the target feed, and does not display any errors. Just nothing.  if your feed is init'd with $feed check for feed errors with:        $feed ..

4:01 am, September 29, 2022
php functions
simple file cache and check in php

just a quick cache bit of code, may need tweaking to actually work... i just added it here as i thought it was re-usable.  Also requires simple_html_dom library.

6:45 am, September 19, 2022
fonts
Quick Embed Import and Code Samples for Google Font Roboto

quick embed codes and code examples for the google font Roboto. Roboto Font Preview

5:30 am, July 20, 2022
sections
html and css hoizontal simple timeline section in foundation

a horizontal simple timeline section example done in foundation grid with some custom styles. This also uses the Lato Font quick install! So Quick!..  :P Also works on responsive and mobile dev..

3:33 am, March 29, 2022
php
fixing error Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string

usually the error "Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string" happens when the php xml library is missing from your server. You can install the xml php library with the following command, repl..

4:00 am, January 18, 2022
php simple html dom
extract meta attributes with simple html dom

pass in the url as import_url and it will search for the meta keywords tag and echo the result.

1:11 am, December 20, 2021
css
simple javascript no library accordion

a simple button and div based accordion with a toggled indicator

4:07 am, December 14, 2021
css grid
Using CSS Grid instead of Float's for a 3 column simple list

I have been in the habit of just using float:left and then width 31% with margin 1% for list items, and it seems to work fine usually.  But i thought i probably should update the defaults in by ..

12:37 am, December 7, 2021
react
Create a Simple JSX Element

The current code uses JSX to assign a div element to the constant JSX. Replace the div with an h1 element and add the text Hello JSX! inside it.

11:19 pm, October 11, 2021
fonts
open sans @import embed font quick

just a quick and nasty css import for the Open Sans google font. 

1:05 am, October 1, 2021
php
simple php ip blocker

just to quickly block annoying ip addresses using an array and $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] so i woke up this morning to find 200 comments from this spam ip, here is a simple script that will block that i..

11:26 pm, July 29, 2021
linux
simple backup to google drive fron linux

i added these scripts a while ago to backup mysql databases and web files to google drive a while ago, i just run them on a daily cron to copy the backups every day. the files so the bain backup_a..

1:04 am, June 27, 2021
python
python import and print url

here is an example script that imports html from a url and prints it add it to a .py file and then run it with python3 filename.py Python from urllib.request import urlopenurl = "http://olympus.rea..

1:11 am, April 4, 2021
css
@import and html link to Montserrat font family google font

includes the Montserrat font family as @import in your css or add as a link in html with preconnect. also has basic usage as the .montserrat class.

11:58 pm, January 19, 2021
css
simple table stripe striping

this uses the nth-child(even) element to add color striping to the following table test table x       x     x           &..

12:48 am, September 29, 2020
php
Fix for Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function file_get_dom() simplehtmldom simple_html_dom

This error is caused due to a function name change in the simple_html_dom.php library if you are using an older one and upgrading to the never version, you can see it in the change log here: https://s..

1:08 am, August 26, 2020
php
simple usage for php password_hash

password_hash is used to generate a hash for a password. using this in its simple form can be good for generating a hash from some text like the following code.

1:06 pm, August 25, 2020
gimp
stretching an image to fit in a banner image with gimp

sometimes i need to get a square image to fit in a rectangle box this is a way to do it with GIMP get a square image, or pick any image (pexels) fit it in this box.. For this one we will be using ..

1:16 am, June 30, 2020
css
simple linear gradient overlay for an image to make it darker or lighter

i use this one often if i have a background image and some text over the top, you can darken or lighten the linear gradient values to match the text content and make it readable.

11:07 pm, June 2, 2020
css
CSS Improve Compatibility with Browser Fallbacks

when using css variables to increase compatibility you should also include a normal color as a default.

2:04 am, July 9, 2019
php simple html dom
simple html dom extract attributes simplehtmldom

this is if you have an element as follows, and you want to extract attributes from it. <img class="an-image-wow" src="image.jpg" data-image="data-image.jpg" alt="my alt tag"> list all its attr..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
js
scrollbar replacement simplebar

a nice and simple scroll bar replacement code <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/simplebar@latest/dist/simplebar.css" /> <script src="https://unpkg.com/simplebar@latest/dist/..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
html
simple dropdown multi level navigation ul li css

updated to work standalone and not effect other list elements on the page

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
html
simple dropdown navigation ul li css

demo .dropdown { position: relative; display: inline-block; } .dropdown-content { display: none; position: absolute; background-color: #f9f9f9; min-width: 16..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
css
simple dropin wordpress dropdown navigation css

this is good if you just want to drop in some css and get a dropdown navigation back using the default wordpress nav example of the default styles code (css) /* Menu Dropdown */ .nav ul { l..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
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