WP Planets
HV is Obsessed with WordPress. Are you? Then schedule regular visits to WP’s “Planets”*: WordPress Planet (At WordPress.org) An aggregation of blogs talking about WordPress from around the world....
View ArticleWP Page Excerpt
Hand-crafting Excerpts for Pages got a lot easier in in WordPress 3+. Put this in your functions.php: And voilà, an Excerpt textarea should now show on your Edit Page screen (make sure “Excerpt” is...
View ArticleHTML5 Audio Player
Hearing Voices uses the WPAudioPlayer plug, which, since it’s Flash, the iPhone can’t see. But iPhone Safari is HTML 5 aware, and supports mp3 play. So here’s our quick&filthy fix. In the file:...
View ArticleI learned to program…
Coders, complete this sentence: I learned to program… Some responses: …when I was 11 so that I could beat my dad at Robot Battle. …on the back side of punched cards on a UNIVAC 1100 as an intern at the...
View ArticleWordPress Becomes Self-Aware
Technologists have identified the moment of conception, the instant life begins… for WordPress, that is. Mike Little pinpoints this 2003-01-24 Matt Mullenweg blog-post as WP’s birth — Matt later...
View ArticleWP Password Prose
Password-protecting a WordPress Post/Page hides its Content and Excerpt, but not its Custom Fields: those can still show. Below are ways to hide ‘em, and functions for customizing the default WP...
View ArticlePlaytagger- Mod
The Delicious Playtagger seems to be gone, for now, maybe forever– possibly due to Yahoo! revisions to the Delicious service. Here’s a quick fix (version 0.1; check back: will write a better one...
View ArticleMake Some Noise
Want sound in your site? Here's a few ways to inject audio into your posts. A lavishly linked survey of web-audio players, with some how-tos and lots of where-to finds. The post Make Some Noise...
View ArticleWordPress Unplugged
WordPress plugins can do so much, so quickly, so easily -- from adding image galleries to keeping your site more secure. But how do you know if the plugin is safe or buggy? Here are some questions...
View ArticleSafe and Secure
Running a website is an inherently insecure operation. The good news is, you can radically reduce your risks by taking your web security responsibilities seriously, and by following some simple...
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