Browsing articles for: February, 2010

Permalink to jQuery Snippet: Slideout Tab

jQuery Snippet: Slideout Tab

On 02.26.2010 by Paul Robinson | 11 comments

A fairly common sight in these modern times of social networking is the famous Twitter tab. This is a tab that floats on the left or right hand side of your browser window & follows you. Here is how to go slightly further than that by making it slide out.

Permalink to Coding Tip: jQuery Animation Queuing

Coding Tip: jQuery Animation Queuing

On 02.25.2010 by Paul Robinson | no comments

In this first coding tip we are going to look at a small, but very helpful tip for those starting out with jQuery animation. Who knows maybe even some of those who are familiar with jQuery have missed it.

Permalink to jQuery Snippet: Fancy Resolution Detector

jQuery Snippet: Fancy Resolution Detector

On 02.24.2010 by Paul Robinson | 5 comments

Not so much a tutorial, but a little jQuery snippet that might help someone. This snippet detects a users desktop resolution and then does something fancy with it.

Permalink to Adding File Caching To Your Twitter API Script

Adding File Caching To Your Twitter API Script

On 02.24.2010 by Paul Robinson | 6 comments

In our last tutorial we created a script to connect to the Twitter API, collect our tweets & display them in some simple paragraphs. In this part we are going to add a very important part, file caching. This will stop our script from running out of API requests.

Permalink to Connecting To Twitter API Using PHP

Connecting To Twitter API Using PHP

On 02.23.2010 by Paul Robinson | 6 comments

Showing your Twitter timeline, or even just your most recent status update, is becoming increasingly popular. Doing it on a WordPress blog is simple with plugins, but what if you want to do it on a non-WordPress website? Here’s how.

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Display All Images Attached To A Post Without A Plugin

On 02.21.2010 by Paul Robinson | 14 comments

At first glance this looks pointless, just use the [gallery] shortcode, but there are times when you want more customization than the gallery shortcode allows for. In this tutorial we will look at how to get all the images attached to a post without a plugin.

Permalink to Creating A Wikipedia Style Search

Creating A Wikipedia Style Search

On 02.18.2010 by Paul Robinson | 1 comment

So you want to create an intelligent search for your website? By intelligent you are, of course, talking about the way Wikipedia sends you to the correct page should an exact match be found. Well you’re in luck, here is an easy way to do it using PHP & MySQLi.

Permalink to Adding A Twitter Social Bookmark To Your Blog

Adding A Twitter Social Bookmark To Your Blog

On 02.17.2010 by Paul Robinson | no comments

Twitter is exceptionally popular for promoting your blog, or business. Having a Twitter social bookmark icon on your blog enables visitors, or even yourself to tweet the current blog article you are reading very quickly & easily. Here is how to create one.

Permalink to Twitter Stream 1.9 Due & Tutorials You’d Like To See?

Twitter Stream 1.9 Due & Tutorials You’d Like To See?

On 02.13.2010 by Paul Robinson | 3 comments

Update: I am looking for people willing to test version 1.9 of Twitter Stream. It includes ReTweet support & a overhaul of the argument system. I haven’t been able to test it enough myself, that is why I am looking for testers.

Permalink to Using wp_list_comments To Create Customised Comments

Using wp_list_comments To Create Customised Comments

On 02.09.2010 by Paul Robinson | 2 comments

After the release of WordPress 2.7 and the advent of threaded comments the classic comment loop vanished, and wp_list_comments appeared. This tutorial will show you how to use wp_list_comments and create customised comments.

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