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.
Read moreShowing 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.
Read moreSo 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.
Read moreTwitter 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.
Read moreAfter 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.
Read moreWith APIs such as Twitter’s becoming more & more popular connecting to a webservice or webpage in a script is now a common request. As such here is how to fetch a webpage via PHP using cURL.
Read moreSometimes you just don’t want certain pages, or posts to appear when a user searches your WordPress blog. Here is a quick & easy tip to rid your search results of those pesky posts/pages, plus an extra tip to remove pages completely.
Read moreWordPress is the staple blogging application across the internet, but sometimes on a shared, or low memory server it can use too much memory. Here are my tips for reducing the amount of memory WordPress uses.
Read moreDonate Plus is an excellent WordPress plugin used to accept donations on your website via PayPal. Using the additional information Donate Plus provides, you can easily create a meter to show how close you are to your goal.
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