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Wordpress :: get author info outside the loop

By tom.altman ⋅ April 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Image via Wikipedia I’m working on a plugin to which will ftp posts each time they are published. It’s going pretty good – but the only information I have on the author is the ID. So I needed to get more about the author – I found the solution in a post by Shawn Gaffney [...]

WP Plugin: WP Server Detecter

By tom.altman ⋅ March 4, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

If you only ever use this once – I have a feeling it will be worth it. I’m guessing this works best as a debugging tool. This plugin is a really simple and quick plugin that puts the hostname of the server that the page was viewed from. This is useful if you are hosting [...]

Tricky page navigation solution

By tom.altman ⋅ February 26, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

WordPress is so good at so many things, but page navigation is not one of them. I think it is because WordPress is a platform and page navigation is a bridge between design and development. In steps this code from wphacks called “Page Sensitive Multi-Level Navigation” The mission was to display sub-pages of the current [...]

Familiar with WordPress, but don’t want the overhead?

By tom.altman ⋅ February 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Try BackPress. It’s a lot like WordPress – but less, or more? :) BackPress is a PHP library of core functionality for web applications. It grew out of the immensely popular WordPress project, and is also the core of the bbPress and GlotPress sister-projects.

WordPress coding tips and tricks – part 2

By tom.altman ⋅ February 25, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Yea – the last one 30 minutes ago was good too…but I found this too and it has some seriously good nuggets of code: 2. Showing Related Posts Without A Plugin Tom: We are currently using a plugin to do this on GazetteOnline. But I always wonder if it would be faster without it? 7. [...]

WordPress coding tips and tricks

By tom.altman ⋅ February 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Using WordPress on gazetteonline, we have learned some tips and tricks. This post from web design ledger shows some more – a couple are trumped by WordPress 2.9, but they are still hot, hot, hot. Customize the Logo of Your WordPress Login Page TIP: Great for that custom look to your install. Detecting Mobile Devices [...]

Funny post on ‘Superstar’ Developers

By tom.altman ⋅ February 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Image via Wikipedia This is a pretty good read…and by these standards, I must be a-w-e-s-o-m-e! So you’ve read Joel’s posts about how 1% of developers are 10x as productive as the rest; the superstar developers; the only ones worth hiring. You know you can program, that you’re reasonably talented, but that’s not enough. You [...]

Amazon CDN Grows Up, Adds Flash Streaming

By tom.altman ⋅ December 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

We’ve been looking at CDN’s, there are lot of good choices. But it is hard to bet against Amazon. When Amazon introduced its CloudFront CDN last year, one of the biggest knocks against the service was that it wasn’t primed for the delivery of video. That changed today, with the addition of video streaming capabilities [...]

iPhone webapps to kick the AppStore habit

By tom.altman ⋅ November 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Image via Wikipedia I love my iPhone. I hate the AppStore. I have not built my own iPhone app – partially because I haven’t found something I couldn;t already buy. But partly because it seems complicated. That’s probably why I don’t build desktop apps. I came across a post by John Gruber called “iPhone Web [...]

It's common sense, stupid: The Mistakes I Made in My Programming Career

By tom.altman ⋅ November 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I would have to agree with 3,4 & 5. 3. Code reuse – the sooner you learn this the better. I think it goes hand in hand with object oriented thinking. You’ll do it eventually…may as well be today. 4. Documentation – we’ve gotten better at doing this via wiki/website at my work. Seems to [...]

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