Articles Archive for May 2008
Posted in Display, Featured on 30 May 2008
This is a continuation of yesterday's post about Custom Admin Branding.
As you'll recall, I was trying to find a way to brand the Login screen without using the Custom Admin Branding plugin and I promised I would share the method with you when I figured it out.
You can see the final result at my [...]
Posted in Admin, Plugin on 29 May 2008
I will be writing in the near future about Wordpress plugins that I have been using at Metro-East.com. This morning, however, I want to write about a new plugin that I have just installed. (*Shocking/interesting note: I just counted and I have 57 plugins installed at Metro-East.com and 30 of those are [...]
Posted in Display, Featured, PHP, RSS on 28 May 2008
In this article I will show you how you can add RSS feeds from other websites to your Wordpress website using only a few simple lines of PHP code. No plugin is required.
This ability has got to be both one of the most sought-after Wordpress solutions and one of the least-documented. I will [...]
Posted in Display, Featured, PHP, Posts on 28 May 2008
If you look at the front page of Metro-East.com you will see three short blog excerpts on the right side. There may not seem to be anything special about these excerpts but there are actually a few interesting things going on here. I have seen questions about this technique on other blogs so [...]
Posted in API, Admin, Display, Headline, Oodle, PHP on 23 May 2008
There is very little documentation available on the Oodle API. The official Yahoo discussion group is useful to an extent but there isn't much going on over there. There is, however, some decent documentation at the Oodle developer center.
*Disclaimer: I am not an expert programmer. Far from it- everything I've learned [...]