Articles tagged with php

1. If Your Post Doesn't Start With An Image, Display an Ad Instead

   Posted on March 08, 2011 in Programming

   I usually start my posts off with an image that is relevant to the post. I think it adds a bit of drama to what I'm writing about, and it also gives me a nice place to anchor a link to a WordPress tag about the subject. I had this …

2. Listing WordPress Database Queries

   Posted on August 12, 2010 in Programming

   If you need to debug what queries your WordPress site is making, try adding the following PHP to your theme:

   <?php
     foreach ( $wpdb->queries as $query ) {
       echo "$query[0]<br />";
     }
   ?>
   

   For this code to work, you need to add the following line to wp-config.php:

   define('SAVEQUERIES', true);
   

   After that …

3. Suggest Tags WordPress Plugin

   Posted on August 18, 2009 in Programming

   For the last couple of years, I've used the Tag Suggest Thing WordPress plugin to recommend tags for my posts based on the post content. Beginning with WordPress 2.5, that plugin started to have problems interacting with the WordPress administration pages. In August 2009, Yahoo! announced that they would …

4. Inserting META Tags in WordPress Themes Without Plugins

   Posted on August 05, 2009 in Programming

   In his excellent series on WordPress Theme SEO, Nathan Rice describes a method to include META tags in WordPress themes rather than relying on plugins. Since I recently updated the Slaptijack theme to include META descriptions and keywords, I thought I would detail the process. If you are interested in …

5. PHP Time Comparison in WordPress Themes

   Posted on July 21, 2008 in Programming

   ProBlogger Darren Rowse recently posted a question about putting dates on blog posts. A lot of folks were interested in the idea of removing dates from older blog posts, but don't know where to start. This is a useful PHP excercise, so I decided to implement it on my personal …

6. Let's Install JSON for PHP 5

   Posted on January 25, 2008 in System Administration

   I recently started messing around with building my own Facebook application. I figured the best way to start learning was to download the demo application and get it working on the Slaptijack web server. I quickly ran into a problem:

   PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function json_encode()
   

   The problem …

7. SlaptiGooglePR Plugin for WordPress Now in Beta

   Posted on May 10, 2007 in Programming

   The SlaptiGooglePR Plugin for WordPress adds a Google PageRank column to your Manage Posts subpanel. Unlike other Google PageRank plugins which add a PageRank badge to every post, this plugin gives the blog administrator a snapshot of how every post is ranked without announcing it to the world. Additionally, it …