Category Archives: Code

WP 2.3 Plugin - Per Post Creative Commons License

This plugin will add the ability to choose different Creative Commons licensing structures for different posts that you publish to your WordPress blog.
As far as i could tell, there are currently 2 other CC plugins for WordPress - wpLicense and cc-configurator - however both of them only let you set your license on a global […]

Using Subversion with WordPress - Part 2: Maintaining Vendor Branches and Upgrading WP Core Files

This article assumes you have already read, “Using Subversion with WordPress - Part 1: Creating Vendor Branches and Integrating your Existing Code“. In short, you want to use Subversion to track/maintain local versions of both WordPress code and your own internal project code, side-by-side, all in the same svn repository.
In the previously mentioned article we […]

Using Subversion with WordPress - Part 1: Creating Vendor Branches and Integrating your Existing Code

This article assumes that you’ve read the basic svn howto and the more specific one provided on the WP Codex but would like to try or need a setup similar to that described here on a page called: Vendor branches. In short, you want to use Subversion to track/maintain local versions of both WordPress code […]

WordPress 2.3 Plugin - ezmlm mailing list subscribe form

ezmlm is a qmail-based mailing list manager written by Dan J. Bernstein.
From their site: “It has all the basic functionality of a mailing list manager, such as subscriber address management including automated bounce handling as well as message distribution and archiving. Its purpose is to efficiently send a message to a large number of […]

WP 2.3 Plugin - Limit Visibility by Capability

This plugin is pretty simple (yet effective) - so i’ll try and keep things short.
You can use this plugin to limit the visibility of your WordPress 2.3 site to only logged in users that have a specific (pre-defined) WP Capability. Any of the standard WP Capabilities can be used, like: read, edit_posts, publish_posts, edit_users, manage_options, […]

How to get the WPG2 plugin to work with Thickbox

If you have a Gallery2 installation intergrated with Wordpress 2.3 - using the WPG2 plugin - then you are probably aware that the G2Image chooser includes a choice for inserting images into posts using the LightBox effect and pointing to a full-sized image.
Well, i needed a choice/option that worked in a similar way but for […]

WP 2.3.1 Plugin - Notify Admin Only of Wordpress Updates

Well, Wordpress 2.3.1 is out and if you’re anything like me, you still haven’t upgraded..
I know it was just released yesterday but for those of you who had already upgraded to WP2.3 within the last few weeks, you may have noticed the AWESOME NEW UPDATE NAG that appears in the back-end of your site !
WP2.3 […]

Live Category-based OPML template for WordPress 2.0

ok, here’s a little something i’ve been messing with..
i wanted to generate an OPML file based on all the different types of feeds offered with the default WordPress installation. that is, every WP site has a “main” site feed (in rdf, rss, and atom), but there are also category (and subcategory) feeds, as well as […]

Styling XML using CSS and XSLT

In order to begin styling XML documents, a basic understanding of CSS and HTML (or XHTML) is recommended, but not required. In fact, today many sites that run on blogging software like Wordpress can generate XML feeds (commonly used with RSS and ATOM readers) automatically, and there are certainly enough tutorials online to get anyone with even a basic understanding of the web started on the path to becoming a designer.

Web 2.0 - Where are you?

As a follow up to the earlier post entitled AJAX: A Closer Look, i decided to dig deeper into this new technique and the trends in web design / programming that appear to be emerging. The term Web 2.0 is commonly used to refer to a new generation of web applications and systems.

AJAX: A Closer look

AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a term describing a web development technique for creating interactive web applications..

HTML Sandbox Tool

I came across an excellent web programmers’ site called tizag.com.
It has tutorials for several popular coding languages including: