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My first guest post at buildinternet.com
I wrote the third part of the embeddable mp3 players series over at buildinternet.com. Those guys graciously allowed me to geek out on their blog. Since they get way more traffic than I do, I think more people will find it useful. You can see how they make me look good here: http://buildinternet.com/2…
Helpful WordPress Shortcode – showthumbs
I was working on my daughter’s blog, which might be the most robust blog I’ve built, because it is my testing grounds for new features to add to WordPress sites/blogs. Tonight I added a neat kind of functionality, something I’d like to share. Shortcode to show thumbnails. Here&#…
Updated Textmate WordPress Bundle
Well, I’ve finally updated the WordPress bundle from the previous release. In this bundle I’ve included some fairly neat snippets. Almost all of them are wrapped in the brackets. Below is a screenshot of what snippets the bundle contains. Why are these snippets helpful? Textmate sni…
Using embeddable mp3 players – Part 2
In this tutorial, I cover how to use custom fields to embed an mp3 into your website (without installing a plugin).
Plugin Released: “Category Expander”
Tim and I finished a plugin today. It is the first plugin that we are officially releasing to the public. The plugin title is “Category Expander”. You can see it in action on the sidebar. Through the settings menu in the WordPress dashboard, you can choose which categories you’d l…
Using embeddable mp3 players – Part 1
A few weeks ago I wanted to add an mp3 to my daughter’s baby book blog (built on WordPress). At first I thought to install a plugin, but it seemed a bit much for my needs. After trying a few things, I eventually settled on a nice theme-integrated method that uses a google flash-based mp3 player. I&#…
Multiple Widget Locations
Did you know you can register multiple Widget locations in WordPress (self hosted blogs of course)? Well, you can. All you have to do is go to your functions.php file (default usage in /wp-content/themes/default/functions.php), where you’ll see something that looks like this: register_…
WordPress Plugin: Slim Title
By default, if a post is set to visibility: Private, or Password Protected, the word “Private:” or “Protected:” is prepended to the title. With a simple google search I found a code snippet that worked in replacing those words with nothing, or if I so choose, anything I li…
WordPress and my ongoing love affair with it.
I am a HUGE WordPress fan. Considering I work with it every day, I understand a good deal more than most people about what it can do. I have built websites that don’t appear to be WordPress sites at all, I call this “WordPress Invisibility”. Doing this is fairly easy actually. Well,…
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