A Simple Content Rotator for WordPress
Very often people want to have random content display on a page or post in their blog. This is especially true when it comes to content like advertisements and images. In this post I’ll show you how to create a simple random content rotator using the Kazoo plugin for WordPress. Continue reading
How to Add a Content Slider to a WordPress Page or Post.
Adding a content slider to a post or page doesn’t have to be difficult and there are a number of free plugins that will allow you to do this. In this post I will demonstrate how to create both a horizontal and a vertical slider within the same post using the WP-BxSlider plugin, some hand coded HTML and two short codes. Continue reading
WordBase Word Database Software Released
Hot off the press is the WordBase 1.0 library for .Net 4.0. WordBase is a C# library that allows you to compile word lists into compressed libraries and have them available for loading and searching. The code provides for compiling sorted lists of words into tightly compressed files. The results are highly compacted word libraries that can be loaded whenever large lists of common or proper nouns (or libraries containing both) are required. Continue reading
Secure your Facebook Fan Page for Free
Facebook announced that on October 1, 2011 all fan pages would be required to offer secure socket layer (SSL) to those who browsed securely. To hear some people talk it was as if their world was ending. The expense, the hassle, oh the pain!
The problem for many seemed to be the expense and labor involved in purchasing and setting up a Secure Certificate for their domain or domains. For people who want their domain name to be “the domain name” associated with their secure fan page that’s an issue I guess. Secure certificates cost anywhere from $35 and up per year. You have to buy, install and maintain them. It’s an added cost and an added effort year in and year out. It’s all that and more for a small (but growing) audience.
The good news is that supporting SSL doesn’t have to be painful and it doesn’t have to cost you anything. Continue reading
Affiliate htaccess
Some time ago I was trying out a new plug-in for WordPress on my test site. It turns out the plug-in was not only a waste of time but it created a security hole on my hosting account. Locating the problem and patching things up was not difficult and fortunately the hacker who found the security breach was more interested in posting affiliate links than being destructive.
Thankfully I did not have to restore my sites from the latest backup. The only problem wass that this left hundreds of links floating around cyberspace all pointing to various folders on my sites that would return 404 pages. Continue reading
MS Access Import/Export Specifications
Have you ever wondered where MS Access stores the Import/Export specifications that you create? Have you ever tried to figure out how to export, document, or change them? After inheriting an MS Access application I needed to locate, document and… Continue reading
Conditional content, users and bots.
I’m working on a new plugin: WP Bot Content. This plugin is designed to filter specific WordPress content based upon whether a search engine is reading your site versus a human person. Continue reading
Kazoo: A Template Engine for WordPress Content
I recently dusted off an ASP based template engine I ported to PHP named KudzuPHP. Other than porting and testing the code I hadn’t really done much with it but after writing a couple of small WordPress plugins to create jQuery sliders I figured I was ready. My idea was to embed this powerful template library into WordPress where page and post content would provide the template input and custom components for the template engine would supply data from and control of the WordPressAPI. Continue reading
Scripting in Ancient Java
When Java Applets where all the rage I had the opportunity to work in a startup shop in Coralville, Iowa where Java was THE official language. Other than the stock charting server DLL I wrote in C/C++ you didn’t use Microsoft for web development you used Java. Continue reading