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 January 7, 2010

Latest Tweet without a Plugin

***UPDATE***
As of June 2013, this no longer works because of a change in the Twitter API. Sorry…

I earlier this week, one of our clients wanted a better solution to getting his latest tweet from Twitter than simply using an RSS widget it WordPress to grab the feed. We could have simply used a plugin, but this site is HUGE, and we didn’t want to depend on Joe Pluginmaker to keep his code clean and up to date, so we went about doing it the old fashioned way: PHP. Read More →

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Categories : WordPress
Tags : matt danner, php, twitter, WordPress, wordpress development
 December 21, 2009

5 Useful WordPress Template Tags

Even if you work with the absolute best in premium WordPress themes, you will undoubtedly find that you need some additional/different functions than the theme has build it.  A great resource that is built in to WordPress is template tags.  A template tag is basically just a way to display information.  Below, I have compiled a few of the many tags that I find particularly useful. Read More →

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Categories : WordPress
Tags : matt danner, php, template tags, WordPress
 December 16, 2009

WordPress 101

Everyone has to start somewhere. It really wasn’t all that long ago that I was starting out on WordPress, and didn’t know a thing.  Even worse was a few months in to it, when I knew just enough to be dangerous.  Read More →

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Categories : WordPress
Tags : basics of wordpress, Community, matt danner, WordPress, wordpress 101
 November 13, 2009

Excluding Pages from WordPress Navigation

I have been fortunate to work with an awesome programmer who makes our WordPress themes incredibly easy to use. But recently, as I have been working with themes from other comanies, and one of the major problems I have run into is not having a Nav Builder. On almost every major site I have built for a client, there are pages that need to be linked internally, but not appear in the main navigation bar. Luckily, WordPress has made this really easy, and I just want to share the method I have been using. Read More →

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Categories : WordPress
Tags : Community, exclude, matt danner, navigation, night photography, php, WordPress
 October 14, 2009

Customer Service from Best Buy

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Here is the story:

I, like the brilliant guy that I am, dropped my iPhone headphones on the ground and rolled over one of the earbuds with my rolly-chair.  This happened a few weeks ago, but I decided last week I wanted to replace them before I went to Atlanta.  So the night before my flight, I went to Best Buy and bought myself a set of $40 Apple headphones for the iPhone.  I get home and open the box, and out falls a GROSS pair of USED IPOD headphones.  I checked the box again, and not only did it not say iPod, it didn’t say used either.  According to the box, I should have received a NEW pair of IPHONE headphones.  You can imagine my frustration. Read More →

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Categories : Community
Tags : best buy, Community, customer service, matt danner, night photography, review, WordPress
 October 1, 2009

Two Column Lists Using HTML

I know there are a million methods of breaking a list into two columns, but many of them involve additions to the CSS or new tables to be created.  But I like a different way.  The markup is all html, and it can easily be used in WordPress posts (using the view HTML tag at the top of the post editor).  Read More →

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Categories : WordPress
Tags : Community, html, html columns, matt danner, night photography, two column li, WordPress
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