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Akismet Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Akismet is undoubtedly the holy grail to spam management. The Akistmet web service takes in data from every user that uses Akismet [...]

WordPress Theme Functions.php Using Classes

Since WordPress only loads one theme at a time, we don’t need a unique naming convention for our class – assuming no plugin developer names a class "Theme_Functions" – your functions.php file could look like the following:

Including PHP Files: One or Many?

It’s often discussed among PHP developers whether it’s better to include one file or many. After running performance tests I’m able to clarify that it’s sixty percent faster to include a single file of larger size over including multiple files of smaller sizes, this will be the case ~99% of the time. However if you [...]

Reset Select Fields with jQuery

Assume you have a form allowing users to filter content based on multiple fields, eg. category and author, and each field is displaying the possible values in a drop-down field along with a link attached to a javascript reset action.

WordPress and AJAX

Today I was working with the WordPress and AJAX combined for the first time. I was tasked with adding the ability to sort a specific categories posts by sub-category, author and post type (we had sub-types allowing us to separate these posts by the type of content inside, video and text).

Marketing the Needs of the Consumer

Saturday morning I was getting ready to go for a ride to Safety Harbor for breakfast a few miles from my home in Saint Petersburg. Before leaving I went on twitter and posted an update “morning ride to safety harbor for some breakfast.. off to a later start than i expected, it’s gonna be hot”. [...]

Offtopic Shortcode

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Using Trackbacks

Trackbacks are kind of new to me, I’ve known of their existence and used them for quite some time but never really paid any attention to them. Until recently when I was working on a WordPress blog cleaning comments of spam and preventing further spam. We already had Akismet for WordPress installed, which is a [...]

Writing a WordPress Plugin Using Classes

I often download plugins to look at the code hoping I’ll learn something from the developers methods and coding style. Often I find myself frustrated reading through poorly written plugins. It’s not that they’re bad developers, they just haven’t focused enough on alternative coding styles and refining how they go about programming their plugins. Here’s [...]

IP Ban

The IP Ban Plugin for WordPress can be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory I wrote this plugin to compliment the Back List plugin. This plugin can be used on it’s own but would be ideal with other anti-spam plugins.

Back List

The Back List Plugin for WordPress can be downloaded at the WordPress Plugin Directory I wrote this WordPress Plugin to help combat spam for open comment blogs who get hit with a lot of Trackback spam. Even with akismet installed, it didn’t always recognize some of these Trackbacks as spam and, Trackback spam becomes a [...]

Google Hosted AJAX Libraries

The Google Hosted AJAX Libraries Plugin for WordPress can be download at the WordPress Plugin Directory I often use third party libraries when I develop for front-end interfaces, this WordPress Plugin allows me to use Google’s hosted libraries instead of hosting them on my own installs.

Custom Field Authentication

The Custom Field Authentication Plugin can be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory A simple on/off switch for your posts and pages privacy.

Bloginfo Shortcode

The Bloginfo Shortcode Plugin can be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory This can be handy when your blog is hosted in a folder on a domain, so authors won’t have to write out the url every time.

Cotton Framework

The Cotton Framework Plugin for WordPress can be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory This WordPress Plugin came out of inspiration of the WordPress Core code. I wanted to develop something for myself to reduce the amount of time I spent on productions where I could use the framework. By creating a consistent HTML framework [...]