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WordPress 2010/05/25 3 min read

Review: WordPress and Ajax Book

Weeks ago, Ronald Huereca sent me a complimentary copy of his ebook WordPress and Ajax and I finally took some time to read it. I knew Ronald can craft good things (you've read stuff from him on WLTC) so I was curious but, hey, a whole book just about Ajax? Six word review It did not waste my time! More…

WordPress 2010/05/18 3 min read

Overview of WordPress’ Transients API

There's a cool (and underused by plugins) API in WordPress: the Transients API. Transients are temporary options, ie options set with an expiration time. Anytime you're storing options and they have a short life span, you should use transients instead.

WordPress 2010/05/11 1 min read

Attention Coders: Twitter Soon To Support oAuth Only

Matt Harris, Developer Advocate at Twitter, posted in the wp-hackers mailing list some important information about the Twitter API. In substance, On the 30th June the Twitter REST API will stop supporting Basic Authentication and instead switch to OAuth. This means all user authenticated requests to the API must be OAuth signed, preferably using OAuth headers. If you're a WordPress…

WordPress 2010/05/07 7 min read

How to Embed a Tweet in WordPress: a Complete oEmbed Tutorial

A few days ago, Twitter published a new tool that lets you embed a tweet on your site, simplifying the old school way: take a screenshot, crop the picture, upload it, embed it. The problem is: this Twitter tool is way too lame. Basically you need to cut and paste a lengthy code snippet full of HTML and CSS. How…

WordPress 2010/04/06 1 min read

Remember When You Were a WordPress Noob

Justin Tadlock just sent out a funny and honorable tweet: This is honorable because, yes, everybody was a clueless noob at some point and that's something to be remembered when you're asked what looks like stupid questions. Even when it seems like a trivial waste of your time, your answers might help today's noob become tomorrow's leet. And this is…

YOURLS 2010/03/05 3 min read

YOURLS: Today, Tomorrow

Straight from the Shrink-Your-URLS-With-A-Custom-Branded-Self-Hosted-Solution Department: if you're following my tweets, you already know that I released YOURLS 1.4.1 yesterday. What's in there? Good stuff for sure, but even better stuff are on their way :)

My Life 2010/03/02 3 min read

My Gmail Label / Filter Strategy (cc @willnorris)

At first I tried to answer in less than 140 characters but Twitter has its limitations. Plus, for the record, posterity, or anybody new to Gmail (you mean there is still someone out there not using it?), I thought this might be of some interest. So here it is: my shuper shmart aweshome Gmail label and filter strategy. You've read…

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WordPress 2009/12/28 2 min read

How To: Per User Options in WordPress

The essence of plugins is giving to WordPress users more control over their blog, that is, most of the time, more options. Typically, a plugin adds a page under the Settings menu, where you can modify the options (see this article on register_setting() for best practices). But if you think about multi user blogs, it can make sense to implement…

WordPress 2009/12/19 2 min read

Christmas Giveaway: Win a Copy of The Smashing Book

Christmas is around the corner, so how about a little giveaway? I feel like offering one of my readers a copy of The Smashing Book (313 pages, paperback, full-color images on coated paper, seems like a pretty book indeed). Drooling yet? Enter the giveaway!