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Day: May 5, 2009

WordPress 2009/05/05 2 min read

Didn’t Know, But I’m Awe.sm (a Post About URL Shorteners, GPL and WordPress)

I've just read on TechCrunch the announcement about awe.sm, a service that sells custom URL shorteners (a la TinyURL) for your own domain. That's funny: I've been using my own private URL shortener for about a week now (notice the "shorter link" mention at the top of this post). The script I'm using is based on something created by Lester…

WordPress 2009/05/05 2 min read

Handling Plugins Options in WordPress 2.8 with register_setting()

In the upcoming WordPress 2.8 there's an interesting function set meant to help authors manage their plugin custom options. In a nutshell: whitelist your options, define how you want them to be validated, and just lean back and rely on the API to handle everything for you. Your new best friend is function register_setting(), and I'm going to recapitulate how…