Thu Tu’s Blog

When I first learned of Linked Custom Search Engines from Google Co-op, I didn’t really get it. When I got the explanation, I then saw the potential.
Previously, to create a custom search engine, we needed to go into a control panel to give Google a list of sites we want it to show results from. [...]

For reasons I will explain in another post about Linked Custom Search Engines, I wanted to generate a page that would include all of my posts in their entirety. There didn’t seem to be a ready-made solution. I found a plugin but it didn’t show all posts the way I wanted. This is different from [...]

I haven’t been able to find clear instructions on how to add widgets to Wordpress. This widget tutorial for developers was as close as I could get, but it applies to the Widget Plugin before Wordpress included Widgets in v 2.2.
I’ve figured out a system that has worked for me. I can’t say that it [...]

I coded a widget to help Spread Firefox via a Wordpress widget. Here is the code:

function wp_widget_firefox($args) {
extract($args);
?>
<?php if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], ‘MSIE’) !== false) {?>
<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
<?php echo $before_title; ?>
<?php _e(’Try Firefox’); ?>
<?php echo $after_title; ?>
<ul><li>
<a href=”http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=YOUR_ID&t=210″><img border=”0″ alt=”Firefox 2″ title=”Firefox 2″ src=”http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/firefox2/firefox-spread-btn-1b.png”/></a>
</li></ul>

<?php echo $after_widget; ?>
<?php
}
?>
<?php

}
I honestly don’t know if this exact code will work [...]

After reading this post at Google’s Webmaster Group, I was inspired to find out how to stop displaying full content on pages where posts were listed in categories, archives, etc. I am not so concerned about duplicate content as much as I don’t like for people to find a result in a category page but [...]

I’m a dork. Anyone who knows me already knew that.
Anyway, some time back–I don’t know when–I broke the theme I mainly use, Ocadia. Thus, I (or my blog) switched to the Default theme. Apparently, when I switched back to Ocadia after fixing it, I used the theme switcher drop down box, instead of [...]

Finally… Google offers the ability to do group chat by way of the Google Talk Gadget. It’s not available with the client version of Google Talk, though.
To use it, start a conversation with a contact, click on Group Chat and select additional contacts.
To have concurrent group chats, even involving the same individuals, repeat the above [...]