Twitter Cards and WordPress

In our “Twitter Cards” Information Resource (February 2013), we shared with you a step-by-step guide for setting up your meta-tags, testing, and applying to Twitter to implement Twitter Cards into your WordPress site. Over the last two years, we’ve updated our process to best suit our clients who want to refine Twitter Card content for their WordPress sites, and overcome the limitations of sites with AJAX-loaded content, which was previously impossible with Twitter.

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Tags | .htaccess, ajax, ajax-loaded, dynamic content, lazy load, php, tips, tutorial, twitter, twitter cards, wordpress

Apache Mod_Rewrite for Vanity URLs

Ever wondered how web services like Twitter (twitter.com/era404), Facebook (facebook.com/era404), and LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/era404) are able to serve vanity URLs for their numerous users? The answer is in the rewrite.Read More

Tags | .htaccess, apache, engine, mod, request_filename, REST, rewrite, rewritecond, rewriteengine, rewriterule, script_filename, uniform resource locator, url, xml

Disabling Caching with .htaccess

For our friends and fellow designers who would rather not have to perpetually clear browser cache while fine-tuning CSS, Actionscript, ads or procedural images, you might want to have a look at the following apache/.htaccess directive:Read More

Tags | .htaccess, apache, browser, caching, clear, conf, disable, httpd, perpetual, persistent