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by Dan Rice

 

Styling WordPress author comments

Ever wonder how to apply special styles to highlight WordPress comments written by the post author or another registered user? Good advice on this point is very rare. Most recommendations are to check against either an email address or a specific user ID. Both of these options are kludges, and both are fragile.

Here’s the right way to do it:

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Disabling the Pantech C150’s annoying web browser

I use a Pantech C150 mobile phone from AT&T. It’s a moderately well designed, sleek piece of hardware, but the UI is terribly clunky. I could rattle off a laundry list of gripes, but my biggest is that pressing the joystick button launches the web browser and requires furious pressing of the “End” button to avoid data charges and exit to some more useful function. The prominence of this button makes it very easy to suddenly find yourself in the browser:

  • during normal use, when using the joystick for navigation;
  • when you’ve finished using the phone and stuck it in your pocket, but it hasn’t automatically locked yet (starting a data session prevents automatic locking, of course); or
  • while on a call.

Unfortunately, Pantech and AT&T have decided that being able to change this button’s behavior is not a useful option to include on the phone. So much for the obvious answer.

I guess you get what you pay for.

Looks like we have to go to Plan B. Fortunately, there is a way to save the situation

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Hello world!

Trying to avoid being a perfectionist… this ought to be good enough for the time being.