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Find out moreSo we have it again. Another revision of “what the F*uck is Social Media”. A little tongue in cheek perhaps but definitely worth looking at in order to help describe and explain the major aspects of Social Media and what it means…so long that is as the viewer has a sense of humour and thick enough skin!
Yep, you can make your twitter sidebar transparent with this handy little bit of script. Its fast and simple to do and can look pretty cool.
No big deal really but a nice touch that allows the more creative types out there to make the sidebar much more interesting with a well placed graphic or indeed to simply let more of the background show through.
Best you follow these steps in Firefox or Internet Explorer as Chrome doesn’t like it much!
I tested this out and here is how you can do it to:
Step One – Login to twitter and select “edit your profile” then select the “Design” section on to this link http://twitter.com/settings/design
Step Two – Grab the code below:
javascript:d=document;c=d.createElement('script');d.body.appendChild(c);c.src='http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justinparks.com%2Ftwitter%2Ftwitter-sidebar.js';void(0);
**Big thanks to João Pedro Carvalho Motta for the original code.
Step Three – Go to the address bar on your browser (where it says http://twitter.com/settings/design) and select the URL. Copy over it with the code from above. Just like this.
Now you just need to hit Enter or line break or return (the big key that makes you take a new line) to make the change take effect.
Final Step – Hit the save button at the bottom of the Design page and your done!
And you can see that the sidebar is now transparent if you go and view your own page profile. For example check: http://twitter.com/#!/justinparks
**Please make sure you check this with a background that is obviously see through as many people dont then they think it doesnt work!
Now what if you want to change back to a normal sidebar with a coloured background. No probs. Just login into the design page again and select “Change Design Background” and hit save and your all sorted.
Nothing major, just thought you might like this little touch!
I have various WordPress sites, I run a few and maintain and admin many others with friends, clients and colleagues alike and once the main bulk of the work is complete I think all the users of WordPress will agree that the single most annoying this is the updating and upgrading of the wordpress plug-ins. The current method requires you to click on each single plug-in and wait for it to upgrade and if you happen to hit it unlucky (like after the WordPress Core has been upgraded) then you might be there for some time and that’s just one site.
I did some searching for a plugin and did see one called One Click Plug-in Updater and decided against it as it required permissions to be changed (my perception was that it would be to difficult for non tekkies to sort out) so I asked around on Twitter and Rob McGuire came back to me and recommend I try that plugin out, so I did. And it worked a treat!
Grab the One Click Plug-in Updater and try it yourself (hopefully you wont have to mess around with permissions on the server to make it work!).
This might be surprising to regular users of WordPress as it certinaly surprised me. Seems it slipped though the cracks at one point in all the new upgrade notes.
Have you noticed that when you upgrade WordPress Core to a new version that there was an option to select all plugins and upgrade them simultaneously but you never knew why that option wasn’t available on the plugins page? Well check this out.
Glenn Murray from Divine Write saw me asking on twitter about this one click upgrade and he referred my question to Paul Cunningham from Blogging Teacher who suggested I do this.
When you see a plugin or a series of plugins need to be upgraded try this
Well dont I feel like a right idiot now? It was there all along and I just never noticed it. Maybe you didnt notice it either but, hey! Now you know. A big thanks to all mentioned who helped me figure this small, but really rather precious nugget out.