Monthly Archives: July 2012

Specifying a Preferred Category Hierarchy

Posted by in WordPress > Plugins

As part of the best practises for organizing your WordPress site so that Breadcrumb NavXT’s output is what you expect, having a post be a member of multiple category hierarchies is something you should not do. While it still isn’t something you should do, there is a way to specify which category hierarchy is more important for a specific post.

The idea is that the order of the categories being returned by get_the_terms() can be modifed so that the more important category hierarchy is output first. This takes advantage of Breadcrumb NavXT’s behaviour of choosing the first category (term) hierarchy it finds for a post.

This is where Order Bender comes in. Order Bender gives you a nice post meta box to select the primary category for a post, and will modify the output order of get_the_terms() accordingly. Simple as that.

Installation is quite easy:

  1. Download the Master branch zip archive from GitHub
  2. In your WordPress Dashboard navigate to the plugin uploader (Plugins > Add New > Upload)
  3. Upload the zip archive
  4. Activate and enjoy!

You can keep up with day to day development via the Order Bender’s GitHub Repository.

-John Havlik

[end of transmission, stay tuned]

HP ProLiant MicroServer Screw Location

Posted by in Reviews > Hardware

After unpacking my ProLiant MicroServer (it will replace Atomtux as the Atom 330 just isn’t cutting it anymore speed wise), I was expecting to see a packet of screws for the hard drive bays (has a 4x cold swappable 3.5″ SATA HDD bays). Alas, there was no packet. After a little searching, I found the screws, along with a wrench for them. They are attached to the door covering the hard drive caddies.

There are 16 screws attached to the door for hard drives, and 4 for an optical drive (to be placed in the 5.25″ bay). Yes, there are 4 extra hard drive screws (one bay comes populated with a 250GB Seagate hard drive).

-John Havlik

[end of transmission, stay tuned]

Make Firefox Use Dolphin for “Open Containing Folder”

Posted by in Guides

In KDE 4, Konqueror has been replaced for the most part by Dolphin for all folder/directory viewing. However, by default Firefox will end up opening Konqueror if you right click on a downloaded item and select “Open Containing Folder”. It would be nice if Firefox would open the containing folder for downloads in Dolphin. There is a simple way of achieving this, and no command line work is required!

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