Reasons not to use flash

Why shouldn’t you use flash for your website? Can there be anything wrong with a website that “enhances” the user experience by flying/zooming/swirling/flipping in like a .PPS document? Well, besides the lack of SEO, low usability (for example: back button not working, “find on this page” not working, the “make text bigger/smaller” button not working … Read more

Exclude trackbacks from recent comments listing

To spare some time I tryed googleing for don’t show trackbacks in recent comments but wasn’t able to find anything relevant at first glance.

So, if you have the FreePress Recent Comments Widget and the long site titles from the trackbacks/pingbacks are breaking your design, here’s your quick tip from VileWorks:

  • go to Dasboard Plugins Recent Comments (edit)
  • find this line (line 234 in recentCommentsWidget.php):
    $request .= "AND comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY comment_ID DESC LIMIT $limit";
  • change it to:
    $request .= "AND comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type <> 'trackback' AND comment_type <> 'pingback' ORDER BY comment_ID DESC LIMIT $limit";

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