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How To Extract Latest Posts From An External WordPress Blog

by Ciprian on December 6, 2009 (895 days ago) | No comments
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First of all you need the Simplepie library. You only need the simplepie.inc file included in the archive. My example extracts 5 items from a recipe blog: I have also included a substr() function to show only the first 23 characters in the title. It fitted my web site better. Don’t forget to have the simplepie library included at the...

First WordPress Plugin: Portable phpMyAdmin

by Ciprian on December 2, 2009 (898 days ago) | No comments
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I just launched my first WordPress plugin. I needed an easy way to access the MySQL database without going to cPanel for each of my clients’ blogs. So I developed a wrapper for phpMyAdmin, and you can now access it straight from your WordPress Dashboard. Read more and download Portable phpMyAdmin plugin here. Stay tuned for more portable plugins!

WordPress 2.7 Compatible Themes

by Ciprian on November 27, 2009 (903 days ago) | 2 comments
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I have updated 3 of my current themes to work with WordPress 2.7 at full potential. This includes threaded comments, pagination and sticky features. The updated themes are: Whiskey Air [download 2.7 compatible only] Whiskey Earth [download 2.7 compatible only] Light Constellations [download 2.7 compatible only] Visit my themes repository for older versions.

WordPress Most Commented Articles During The Year

by Ciprian on November 23, 2009 (907 days ago) | 2 comments
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As the end of the year is getting closer and closer, you might want to show a top ten most commented articles. By modifying the code you could display a top 3, top 15, top 100, or whatever number you like. Here’s how:

WordPress Quick Tips

by Ciprian on November 23, 2009 (907 days ago) | No comments
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