WordPress uses the PHP function mail() as default for sending e-mails such as comment notifications. However sendmail isn’t configured on my server. So I used the WordPress plugin WP Mail SMTP till now. Unfortunately it won’t work with Google’s GMail—which is a problem for me, after I switched to GMail.
There’s another WordPress plugin out there: […]

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HTML5 gives us many advantages. You can use the basic HTML5 elements like header, nav and footer in all browser at the moment. But there are more cool things like canvas, SVG or client side JavaScript databases.
While surfing I’ve found four different great overviews about XHTML5 / HTML5 browser support of all features. I’ve tweeted some […]

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I’m a fan of TextMate and how easy it is to extend the functionality. You can write TextMate plugins in ruby or any other language. But today I want to show you two simple snipplets I use in my everyday life.
TextMate snipplets have a great feature: the repeater—each time you type, TextMate retypes the character […]

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As I started a new WordPress theme, the time was right to do this in XHTML5.
1. The XHTML5 header / head
The doctype is much easier now. And it’s the first time for me to write it by hand and not via copy ’n’ paste. The doctype is as simple as:

2. Structuring the content with “header”, “nav”, […]

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Seit Kurzem betreibe ich mehrere WordPress-Blogs mit unterschiedlichen Domains auf einem Server in einem Verzeichnis also einer WordPress-Instanz (Anleitung). Unter anderem:

das Berliner Stadtbahn-Blog unter www.stadtbahn-blog.de
das Susuh-Blog unter blog.susuh.de

sowie dieses Blog selbst unter www.hagenburger.net
Das Favicon wird normalerweise im Stammverzeichnis als / favicon.ico abgelegt. Dies führt natürlich bei mehreren WordPress-Blogs im gleichen Verzeichnis zu einem Problem. Über die .htaccess vom Apache Webserver […]

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