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September 2010

WordPress Shortcodes, Actions, Events Manager, TweetBlender

I’m working on a WordPress project which uses David Benini’s “Events Manager” plugin. The events manager plugin does not use WordPress’ posts for Events. Instead it creates an page with the title “Events”, whose URL would be http://yourdomain.com/events. The content rendered on this page varies. The plugin uses the query string to fetch a single event [...]

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WordPress’ Built-in Category and Single post Navigation

For navigating to older and newer posts from a single post page, WordPress gives us some useful functions like previous_post_link() and next_post_link(). Those are easily confused with the similar looking functions, previous_posts_link() and next_posts_link(), used for navigating between pages listing multiple posts, in a category for example. WordPress gives us the category structure. We can use categories and permalinks [...]

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Mapstraction

Reading about Mapstraction, a wrapper for the mapping APIs of Google, Yahoo and ten other JavaScript mapping APIs. Looking forward to diving into some example code and posting more soon.

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Gravity Forms

For a WordPress project I’ve been getting my time sucked up by messing with the CForms plugin. Being one of several people who have worked on the project, I did not set up CForms. The Admin UI for CForms on this particular WordPress project is pretty messy. I’ve heard great things about the Gravity Forms [...]

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create a file from content on your clipboard

You’re on github or something, reading code. You need to add some code to your project. You could: curl or wget the file URL clone the repo, extract single file, move it on file system create the file, open an editor, and paste in the content save as Here’s a terminal command I like. From [...]

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