Turn email ( SMTP ) back on in OS X Mountain Lion

November 8, 2012

I upgraded to Mountain Lion a few days ago and I have to say that I have had several major disappointments. Overall it is great. Still pretty, faster than Lion, and I have not experienced the battery drain issues that have plagued some users. What I have noticed is that most of my standard, every

WordPress: Customizing the toolbar on your wp_editor()

October 29, 2012

Have you ever wanted to customize what toolbar buttons are shown on your TinyMCE wp_editor() instance? I was digging around the WordPress core and found a neat filter called teeny_mce_buttons. This filter passes in an array of button names that you can alter by adding and removing buttons you need. There is a pretty large

WordPress: Remove image from content on post save

October 28, 2012

If you have a post type where you want to allow the user to utilize the built in content box, but you do not want the user to be able to save images there is a quick trick you can use to strip image tags away before the content is saved to the database. This

WordPress: How to display admin notices

October 15, 2012

You have probably seen the yellow and red notices on the top of the wp-admin area, either when updating a page, catching an error on a form, or a plugin poking at you to configure it after activation. These notices are very powerful ways to get a user’s attention and you may be wondering how

WordPress: How to easily change the name of any top level menu in wp-admin

October 14, 2012

Quite often I run into instances where I need to change the display name of a top level menu item in the WordPress wp-admin backend. Sometimes this is to change Posts to something more relevant to the client, such as Skydive Log, or I simply do not like how a plugin named its menu and