Monthly Archives: April 2011

One quick and common way to get debugging information about an application is to introduce some print tracing statements (print spam).  If you run a debug environment as well as a production environment, you can set up a print statement … Continue reading →

For WordPress theme developers, remember that when you need to reference the local theme template directory, the following call will reference the parent theme: get_template_directory_uri(); Intuitively, you might look at this and say that the child theme is of course … Continue reading →

If you want to identify your browser as an iPad when navigating the web, open up your Firefox client and visit about:config in the navigation bar.  Right-click and create a new String entry, then enter the following information: Preference name: … Continue reading →

I’m a Firebug user, and we’d been seeing some very strange errors in Firefox 4 on a site that was running without any obvious errors.  In the Console tab, the following error was showing up. Image corrupt or truncated: <unknown> … Continue reading →

If you’ve got the WordPress plugin WP-MEMBER installed on your site and you’re seeing Invalid Data Passed errors when expired users attempt to resubscribe, there is a fix available in the meantime until the developers patch the plugin.  You’ll need … Continue reading →

One of my clients ran into a problem with their Google Analytics logging system.  There was a Perl script set up by another developer to receive Paypal Payment Data Transfer (PDT) notifications each time a user was billed.  This script … Continue reading →