Turn a standard WordPress Gallery into an isotope Gallery

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Update: 30/09/2019 Isotope is a nice jQuery plugin to build galleries with. With just a little coding you can turn a standard WordPress gallery into a nice responsive isotope-gallery. No WordPress-plugins needed. Start by adding a Gallery: when editing a Page (or Post), add a Gallery block, pick your images, press the button ‘Create a … Continue reading Turn a standard WordPress Gallery into an isotope Gallery →

Solution for failed FTP connection in WordPress

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This page has a solution: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/update-wordpress-without-ftp/ You have to edit the wp-config.php file, and add this line to it: define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’); Also, do not forget to make the folders for themes and plugins writable with FileZilla (as you can learn also from the WorPress install guide). It is still possible that you get the FTP-login problem … Continue reading Solution for failed FTP connection in WordPress →

WordPress: Photo-Gallery plugin work-around to customize theme

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This Photo-Gallery is a nice basic starting point to build a gallery. But just like a lot of plugins these days, the ‘lite’ or ‘free’ version you can use without payment has some limitations. For me, the mayor limitation was the lack of options to customize its looks: the theme. Luckily, after studying the plugin in more … Continue reading WordPress: Photo-Gallery plugin work-around to customize theme →

Gogbot hosts ‘Creative Technologists’ in UT Innovation pavillion

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The Gogbot festival challenges first years’s students of the University of Twente and its bachelor programme Creative Technlogy with pitches and special assignments for presentations at Gogbot: 60 international talents from the academic programme CreaTE combining user interaction with cutting-edge technology and creative design. For Gogbot these talents have developed 14 installations and prototypes – … Continue reading Gogbot hosts ‘Creative Technologists’ in UT Innovation pavillion →

How to run SolidWorks 2015 SP4 on Windows 10

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[16-NOV-2015 update: SP5 is still not available…] SolidWorks 2015 SP4 has compatibility issues with Windows 10. SolidWorks announced they will fix this in the next release of their Service Pack, which will be SP5. Since SP5 will be released no earlier than October, here is a work-a-round: run SolidWorks in compatibility mode. To do this, … Continue reading How to run SolidWorks 2015 SP4 on Windows 10 →

Customizing the WordPress Search Results Page

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If you ever encountered the limits of the build-in search of WordPress, you might consider to customize the output of the search results. If a search produces no results, you could suggest the visitor to go to Google to do a search on your site with the same query. To implement this, add (or modify) the content-none.php … Continue reading Customizing the WordPress Search Results Page →