Arconix Shortcodes

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At Long Last – Arconix Shortcodes v1.1

It’s been a while since I’ve updated my shortcodes plugin, and I spent this latest release primarily adding user-requested features. One of the most requested enhancements for this round was adding a compatibility mode to the plugin. With all the other plugins and themes in the WordPress universe that happen to use the same shortcode [...]

Quick Update v1.0.1

I just released v1.0.1 last night… fixed a couple small CSS issues (tabs with longer titles should look much better now) and a goofy problem dealing with which accordion is loaded when a page renders. You can get the update from your WordPress dashboard as it should already be alerting you by now.

Shortcodes v1.0 Released

I happy to say I finished up and released version 1.0 of my shortcodes plugin a couple days ago. I completely re-wrote the codebase, improving and cleaning up where possible. I also added a couple requested items — ability to hyperlink to a specific tab and image indicators for the accordions. You can read about [...]

Progress Report – Tab Linking

One of the requested features for Arconix-shortcodes v1.0 was to add the ability to link to a specific tab of a tab group. While it seemed easy enough, there were a couple things to keep in mind, and I thought it’d represent a good opportunity share the though process behind choosing the default behavior I [...]

Rolling Your Own CSS and Javascript

Normally if you want to modify the css or javascript of a plugin to better integrate with your site or add your own specific functionality, you only had a couple options. Edit the plugin files directly Try to override the css with your own through specificity and !important declarations Add your own javascript files None [...]