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#FridayFive: Feeds to Follow

#FridayFive: Feeds to Follow

View the Friday Five from August 7th, 2009

#blogs #css #feeds #fridayfive #php #rss #web design #wordpress

WordPress Wednesday: Pithy Quotes Plugin

WordPress Wednesday: Pithy Quotes Plugin

If you look at the top of this page you’ll see that there is a short quip displayed in my header. Every time you visit any page, it changes. I have about fifteen little quotes in my database and they’re set to display randomly with each refresh of the page. I wrote a plugin which

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#plugins #quotations #web design #wordpress #wordpress themes #wordpresswednesday

  • General Stuff
    • I followed a link on Hidden Los Angeles and found a killer list of film locations in town. (I’m going to go out on a limb and assume LA has a lot more of these than most cities. Sometimes I forget that I am living in what has to be the coolest city in the world.)
    • If you post a classified ad, think twice before replying to Mike.
    • “I thought he wanted to kill us,” Heard said. “He was so angry and upset.” — Perhaps he wasn’t asked if he wanted to spend the rest of his life in captivity. I’m just sayin’.
    • Trash Compactor BookendsThey’re a bit expensive, but these trash compactor bookends are sweet.
    • Fun: Check out the size of these balls! [Ed. note: Local copy of image for posterity saved here.]
  • Techie Stuff
    • It’s great to hear that the first ever entirely volunteer-run open source conference was a huge success. My good friend Thomas had a big hand in that.
    • When you’re designing websites, it’s handy to have a test template to check what your stylesheets will look like.
    • WordPress 2.8 makes it even easier to code widgets.
    • If you want to target links to open in a new window while still having valid code, it can be done with jQuery.
    • Which iPhone 3.0 software features does my iPhone support?
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#css #dailydavid #iphone #los angeles #movies #sports #star wars #web design #wordpress #zoos

WordPress Wednesday: Amazon QuickTags Plugin

WordPress Wednesday: Amazon QuickTags Plugin

In which I add some buttons to the Wordpress Admin content editor

#amazon #css #html #javascript #php #plugins #web design #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: Displaying Huge Archives

WordPress Wednesday: Displaying Huge Archives

Once you’ve been blogging for a few years, you’re going to realize that your archives page is huge. For the casual one-post-each-week blogger, it might be okay to display the titles or even excerpts of posts on your archives page. But what about you and your twenty-posts-per-day blogging habit? It won’t be long before your

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#archives #blogging #web design #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: Create a Twitter Widget

The team at ProBlogDesign has posted an excellent tutorial explaining How to Create Your Own Twitter Widget. The instructions are very detailed and by following them you’ll learn quite a lot about how widgets work.

#tutorials #twitter #web design #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: How to Display the Age of Your Site

If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you’ll see that in my footer I display how long I’ve been publishing this site. It’s pretty simple to do this; all you really need is the DateDiff plugin and PHP’s default date() function.

#blogging #plugins #tips #web design #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: Current Plugins

Here’s a handy list of all the WordPress plugins I’m currently using to publish this site.

#plugins #web design #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: Scheduled Posts

There are dozens of awesome features in the WordPress CMS, but one of my favorites is the ability to schedule a post for future publication. You can write a birthday wish to someone months in advance so you don’t have to worry about forgetting. You can plan to have an anniversary note appear on your

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#blogging #cms #tips #web design #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: LaunchPad

LaunchPad is a killer WordPress “domain parking” theme. It’s the perfect way to let visitors know that something cool is “coming soon” when you’ve registered a domain name but haven’t yet had a chance to actually build anything. This high-impact, minimalist layout (example) comes pre-configured with two RSS subscription options — via email or feed

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#domain names #tips #urls #web design #wordpress #wordpress themes #wordpresswednesday

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