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How To Add A Home Link To A WordPress 3 Nav Menu

Version 3 of WordPress introduced proper menu functionality, taking the world’s most loved blogging software one step closer to full CMS status.

However there seems to be one thing missing, which is the ability to add a ‘Home’ link to a menu.

Fear not though, because thanks to the built-in hooks functionality it’s a simple matter to add your own, which is what I’m going to show you how to do today.

Jonathan
2nd Aug 2010
Tutorials, Wordpress

Beating Form Spam Redux

Yesterday I showed you a quick and easy way to beat form spam with little more than CSS.

However I also said that when it comes to beating spam there’s no such thing as overkill.

So here’s another method which only occurred to me recently, but should be even more effective at beating the spammers because there’s less reliance on the client-side.

Jonathan
30th Jul 2010
PHP, Security, Tutorials

Updated: How To Beat Form Spam With Just CSS

These days it seems like as soon as you launch a new site with a form on it, you’re getting spammed.

So I thought today that I would share with you a method for beating spam bots that I’ve been using for nearly 3 years and works consistently.

It’s been incredibly effective, doesn’t carry the usability issues and implementation hassles of something like CAPTCHA, and uses nothing more than a bit of CSS.

Jonathan
29th Jul 2010
CSS, Security

5 Tips For Prolonging The Operational Lifespan Of A Laptop Battery

It’s a sad fact of owning a laptop that after a while, sometimes less than a year, the battery just won’t hold as much charge any more, and you’re left with what is essentially an expensive, light-weight, low-spec desktop machine.

But fear not, there are some things you can do to help your laptop batteries live a little longer.

Jonathan
27th Jul 2010
Hardware

Beginning PHP: A Self-Updating Copyright Notice For Your Footer

We are starting a Beginner’s Guide to PHP here on Division by Zero, running alongside our usual posts. It will include tutorials, helpful snippets of code and pointers to help those who have just opened their first PHP tag.

Just to get us started down the road, let’s begin at the end… with a simple little snippet of PHP that you can use to add a self-updating copyright notice to your site.