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Joost’s WordPress-Bundle for TextMate gets the fun back into theme-hacking

Erik — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:36:11 +0000

I told you about Joost’s great WordPress-Bundle for TextMate in the post A WordPress-Bundle for TextMate and I stand by the title of this post. It really brings back the fun in hacking WordPress-themes.

I found one deprecated call (in two incarnations): listcats expands to list_cats, but the beauty in using the Bundle is, I just exchanged it to expand to wp_list_categories and I was done. I don’t have to remember which calls are deprecated, I’ll just have to make sure to check the Bundle as soon as new lists with deprecated calls show up and exchange them. The only “clear and present danger” I see in this approach is: What do i do, while not using TextMate? But that holds true for almost anything handled by a Bundle in TextMate. (I just found out, that the editor in WordPress does not close HTML-Tags when ⌘ – ⌥ – . is pressed. )

Kudos to Joost for picking up the task. Thanks, really.

A WordPress-Bundle for TextMate

Erik — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:40:38 +0000

I just found a WordPress-Bundle for my favorite editor, TextMate. Download it from the Website of SEO-/Wordpress-wizzard extraordinaire Joost de Valk.

I’m going to test it later today.

Finding Redundant CSS-Code

Erik — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:31:05 +0000

So you are one hundred percent sure, that you are using all the CSS-classes you defined in your stylesheet(s)? Great. Move on. Nothing to see here. Or did the question made you uneasy?

If you could scrape some definitions from your stylesheet, then—depending on the traffic on your website—getting rid of some stuff might mean less traffic. Besides, knowing your code is clean makes you feel better, believe me. The idea is so obvious, I wonder why nobody came up with something like The CSS Redundancy Checker a long time ago. IMHO, the work of a genius.

The author hints, that the functionality might come as a TextMate-Plugin in the future, BTW.