In Firefox you can pick keywords for your bookmarks. I find this very useful for quickly loading websites.
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Missing WordPress 3.1 Admin Bar
After upgrading my sites to WordPress 3.1, I found that some of my older custom themes were not displaying the new Admin Bar. I realized that these themes did not have the wp_footer() function in footer.php.
<?php wp_footer(); ?>
After adding this in (just before the closing body and html tags), the admin bar shows up fine. This function is used by some plugins as well, so it’s good to make sure you always add this into your themes.
nth-child for Internet Explorer
The nth-child pseudo-class allows you to match elements on the basis of their positions within a parent element. A good use case for nth-child, is for menu navigation separators that are in-between each item like this:
If you were to just apply a border-left to each list item, you would have a line before the first item on the left. To remove the border-left on the first item, we use nth-child:
RSS Feed for Facebook Pages
I noticed that Facebook Pages no longer (or did they ever?) have the RSS feed readily available in the browser. Sometimes I’ll need the feed to pop into a WordPress plugin like Better RSS Widget to display recent Facebook posts. To get this feed, just follow these steps: