Posts tagged “PHP”
WordPress Wednesday: Safe Function Calls
If you’re editing a WordPress theme template file by adding a call to a plugin’s function, you need to be careful. In six months or a year you’re going to deactivate or delete that plugin, and you’re going to get a big ugly fatal PHP error on your blog. You can avoid it, though, by
WordPress Wednesday: Thesis Theme Tag Text
Today I’m going to explain how to make your WordPress blog display a special note based on a tag associated with a post. This tip is uniquely written for users of Chris Pearson’s awesome Thesis Theme, but if you are crafty enough with WordPress, you’ll be able to use it regardless of the theme you’re
WordPress Wednesday: Submit to Facebook
How to add a ‘Post to Facebook’ link to your Wordpress blog
WordPress Wednesday: Amazon QuickTags Plugin
In which I add some buttons to the Wordpress Admin content editor
2008 – 2009 iCal College Bowl Schedule
In which I explain how to create an iCal version of the college football bowl season schedule
Parsing PHP in CSS
Dynamically process your css scripts
WordPress Tags
In which I customize Wordpress to deal with my site prior to fully implementing tagging
How to Display RSS Feeds Using PHP
If you’re interested in displaying an RSS feed from an external source using PHP, you simply must grab RSS_Fetch by Drew Phillips. It is by far the easiest implementation that I have found. The readme file is very detailed and the code is well-documented. I highly recommend it.
Link Droppings
A collection of interesting links
Is There Anybody Out There?
What are the chances that after two+ years of little-to-no posting that anybody will be interested in visiting this site again? I’m guessing pretty slim. In my defense: I’ve been extraordinarily busy. Poor davidgagne.net here was also deluged with about 100 spam comments each day, which is one of the main reasons I finally switched