The transient API is an extremely useful tool built into WordPress that allows you to store options, but with a twist.

I’ve been asked a lot recently for advice on how to create WordPress Widgets that use the new (WP 2.8+) WordPress Widget API. To save me repeating it, here is a quick tutorial.

With HTML 5 becoming increasingly popular out in the wild, I thought it was time we looked at some of the interesting API features that have been introduced as part of the HTML 5 specification. First let’s look at the File API.

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.

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.