How to set the WPML language locale of an AJAX call
Enable WordPress AJAX requests to set the language locale through WPML with this small patch.
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How I built a website in just one weekend
A guide to building a website from start to finish. Get your site out instead of your hair.
Multilingual WordPress themes with I18n and L10n
Having a fully translatable WordPress theme can save you a lot of work, and here's how.
HTTP 404 response causes forced downloads to fail
An interesting gotcha that I stumbled across recently, sending a 404 response code with a download forced by Content-Disposition: attachment will fail but inline content will still be displayed. This behaviour was tested in both Chrome and FireFox.
Of course the appropriate response code should always be sent; this 404 response code was being sneaked in by WordPress and led to hours of frustration.
A reason why Larry Ullman is awesome
So, if you’re interested in developing with PHP, you should really check out the Yii Framework. And if you like what you see, I strongly recommend Larry Ullman’s Yii Book. While still in the making, you can buy it now and receive the updates as Larry writes and revises the chapters.
wp_list_pages() not setting .current_page_item classes on custom post types
A rather frustrating bug that I became aware of when generating navigational menus for custom post types using wp_list_pages(). The list entries aren’t decorated with useful classes denoting the current item, the parent item, and ancestor(s).
Read about the issue here.