Ever wanted to add text to your input fields and have it disappear when your visitor starts adding their info?

Better still, have it reappear if the visitor adds nothing?

Like this:

Here’s the code:

<input type="text" name="field-name-here" onclick="this.value='';" onfocus="this.select()" onblur="this.value=!this.value?'Enter Email To Get Updates':this.value;" value="Enter Email To Get Updates" />

Replace Enter Email To Get Updates with your own text.

Just a simple technique which works great.

It is amazing how many blogs do not do this. They have the messiest comments section with a zillion comments, trackbacks and pingbacks all jumbled up. And it is almost impossible to make some sense of out of the entire mess. Want to follow the conversation? Try evading the trackbacks and pingbacks along the way.

What’s the solution?

Separate the two, of course.

But How?

That’s a good question. You will find plugins that do this but if you can manage something in the theme design, it is best to do so rather than install plugin upon plugin. Plugins are best used where you cannot achieve your objective without touching the core Wordpress files.

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If you scroll down you will see a live preview option for comments. Just try it out by typing in a comment. Pretty cool, huh!?

A friend asked me why this was useful and why anyone will want to see their comment twice?

My answer: If your comment is pretty long, the textarea will start to scroll and you won’t be able to look at your entire comment in on go. The preview on the other hand shows the comment in its entirety. This way you can see how it looks and proof read with ease before you post.

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Cforms II is a Wordpress plugin which makes it easy for you to add a contact form to your website.

Once you install and activate the plugin, don’t get intimidated by the dozens of options available. It is pretty easy to set up. Click on CForms from your WP admin menu.

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This can either be a very useful or a very dangerous trick depending on how it is used or abused.

I found this little tip at: FiddyP (it’s a really cool blog btw).

It only works in Firefix and boy does it work!

If you have a stored password that you can’t remember and all you can see are asteriks, just add this line to the address bar:

javascript:var els = document.getElementsByTagName('input'); for(var x=0; x<els.length; x++){ if(els[x].type.toLowerCase() == 'password' ){ var test = els[x].type = 'text';}}

Press enter and wait to be pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised to see your password staring back at you.

Trying to add code to your wordpress post can be one of the most frustrating experiences. That is if you want the code to appear as code in your post.

Say, something like this:

<ul><li>This would have been a bullet</li></ul>

Had this been added to Wordpress normally, it would have appeared as a bullet. But since I’ve used a really cool plugin called ‘Code Auto Escape’, I can add code as code as long as I add pre and code tags around it.

Now you may never need to show html, xhtml, javacript, php, etc code in yuor posts but just in case you do, this is the plugin to get.

Get the Code Auto Escape Plugin