Tagged ‘WordPress’
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
If you love Google Reader and regularly create "Shared Notes" as you skim through your daily dose of RSS feeds, then this quick tutorial will help put those notes on your website. Forget fiddling with plugins for this one—by using the DOMDocument class in PHP 5, you can scrape your Google Shared Notes feed to display your latest shared notes directly on a page within WordPress.
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
We're heard a lot about Flutter. The Flutter homepage has accumulated something like 1,592 comments since its release—a bewildering array of bug reports, praise, and feature requests—and the now defunct support forum was a mire of temporary solutions and fixes until it was abandoned by its developers and replaced with a Google Group. The only public place that exists for WP hacks like myself to confer about the plugin in its current state is this group, which has recently been beset by spammers. The Freshout guys occasionally post there, but we’ve heard little about progress on the next release of Flutter, even while bug fixes circulate among members of the community.
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
If you have a ring of web properties that are powered by WordPress, why not link them all together to drive traffic through a custom Google search? WordPress's search engine is notoriously unhelpful because it sorts search results by date instead of relevancy. If you use Google Custom Search, when you search using your souped-up Google Custom Search box, you'll land on the new search template, and Google will load the results (almost instantaneously) in a paginated iframe.
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
In this series, I'm going to show you how to display a paginated archive of all your WordPress users, as well as extend user profiles to include custom user meta on both the front end of your WordPress theme and in the Dashboard.
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
First of all, create about 6 users under Users --> Add Users in WordPress, so we have some faces to work with. Then go ahead an install Members List. Quickest instructions for setting it up.
