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WordPress $wpdb basics

Richard — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:39:04 +0000

Recently I've been adapting a plug-in to suit my needs and for the first time, trying to write something that interacts with the wordpress database, step up wpdb class! The WPDB Class - Make it Global To use the wpdb class we need to access a global variable $wpdb which is simple enough, but what you've got to remember ...

DNS wildcards on cpanel for wordpress mu

Richard — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:00:22 +0000

How to add a wildcard entry so your wordpress mu subdomains resolve correctly If you want to use sub domains for your wordpress mu blogs you are going to need to add a DNS wild card to get it to work. Thankfully if your host provides cpanle there's a really easy way to do this. Here's ...

Shopify : The current tag as a title

Richard — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:00:26 +0000

Using tags in Shopify to create nested navigation is a great way to help customers find products but once they've browsed to the tag page you need to let your customers know what they're looking at. A collection has the following property for this : - {{ product.title }} That works well for collections but tags are ...

Shopify Categories Within Collections

Richard — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:00:24 +0000

Shopify is one of the amazing pieces of software I use to build websites, specifically shopping carts. One thing that is essential when building online stores is good product navigation. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to create categorize product navigation with Shopify

Embed Videos in WordPress Mu

Richard — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:00:59 +0000

So, lately I've been getting into screencasting and thought the development of this WordPress mu blog would be a good subject to publish through the medium of screencast, the irony is wordpress mu doesn't support embedded video! Ok, so it wasn't all bad. I quickly found out why the embed tags are strip when you save ...

WordPress mu Domain Mapping on cPanel

Richard — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:00:53 +0000

A screencast of how to setup domain mapping for WordPress mu Here's a step by step screencast showing you how to setup domain mapping. It's pretty straight forward with the help of this domain mapping plugin, just remember you have to have already registered your domain so you can use it as and addon domain in ...

A Date Badge for Thematic Theme

Richard — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:00:04 +0000

Create a date badge for WordPress Thematic is a great theme and I've been using it for about a month now on this blog and I love it. I'm slowly designing a child theme for it and I thought I'd share the code for the date badge I've create for my posts. Because Thematic uses lots of ...

Get sIFR to work

Richard — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:00:50 +0000

I tend to only 'get things' when they are explained to me in the 'right way'. Too simple and I get bored, too complex and I switch off and try something else. The main reason I use WordPress is because a I 'got it' after 5 minutes. Something about the code, the documentation and the ...

Multiple RSS Feeds on your Facebook Profile

Richard — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:00:18 +0000

A quick and easy feed aggregator Quick Solution (Chimp feeder has stopped Working) :( Another Solution (Yahoo Pipes still Works well) Simple and Working Solution (Feed Stitch) I've been using facebook for a relatively short period of time but straight away I liked the the idea of being able to post articles from my blog on my facebook wall, automatically. ...