Tag Archives: URLs

Gmail’s Sweetest Feature, the URL

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Lloyd

Gmail’s sweetest feature is that each view has a unique URL. This provides simple integration with other applications. In other words, I copy and paste an email’s URL into my to do list, and at any time, with a single … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, Web | Tagged Email Clients, Email Readers, Google Gmail, Mail User Agents, MUA, Software Features, URIs, URLs, Web Applications, Web Apps | 1 Comment

wp-content in Code is a Tell for Common WordPress Coding Mistakes

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Lloyd

Regularly while reviewing themes and plugins, I’ll see URLs or paths that include ‘wp-content’. This is a often a hint of a WordPress coding mistake. Consider this simple example: <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://example.com/wp-content/themes/default/style-ie.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” /> If as part of a … Continue reading →

Posted in WordPress | Tagged Absolution Paths, ABSPATH, bloginfo(), Duane Storey, get_stylesheet_directory(), get_stylesheet_directory_uri(), get_stylesheet_uri(), Mark Jaquith, php, Plugin Development, Relative Paths, STYLESHEETPATH, TEMPLATEPATH, URLs, Will Norris, WordPress, WordPress Plugin Checker, WordPress Theme Development, WordPress.com, wp-content, WP_CONTENT_DIR | 1 Comment