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View ArticleFreedirectoryguide
My project Freedirectoryguide is now live. The website can be viewed at www.freedirectoryguide.com. This website is an example of how WordPress can be extended to integrate with other databases outside...
View ArticleCSS for WordPress – 4 sessions in May at Tech Liminal in Oakland
Learn how to update your WordPress site’s look and feel with Cascading Style Sheets in four evenings. Go here for more information and to sign up The class will be similar to last year’s class , with...
View ArticleMy Necessary Plugins
Working with WordPress is sometimes very frustrating, and if it weren’t for the plugins, it would be impossible without a lot of extra coding. I try to minimize the functionality that I access via the...
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Making a “No Code” Advanced Search Form
This is a good project because it teaches a lot about how WordPress works. It is an easy exercise of adding a simple HTML form to a page, then using the form fields to create a query string that will...
View ArticleSearch and the WordPress Query String
If you were reading the post about the no code search form, you have heard the term query string. The query string is how WordPress knows what to do next when you hop from one page to another. Often,...
View ArticleShopping Carts and WordPress: ECommerce at WPOS
Here is a link to the slides for my presentation at WordPress Open Studio in San Francisco. The slides present thinking points for people who are planning to sell on the web. Recommended plugins are...
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Demonstrating access to a remote WordPress database
This post demonstrates using a php program on a remote WordPress installation and retrieving the latest posts from that database. In this demonstration, I link to a site I use for experimentation....
View ArticleUse PHP to Get the Menu Items From a WordPress Menu
Here is PHP code that will get the menu items from a WordPress nav menu defined in your Appearance>Menus panel. This is tested in 3.6. In this example I extract the menu items from a menu named Main...
View ArticleNode.js Asynchronous JavaScript Demonstration
As an experienced programmer getting a first look at node.js, I wrote a little sampler of basic activities to see how to do them in node. Since node runs from the shell, I thought I would do some homey...
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