fotoslide wordpress plugin
Following from the work I done previously with the WPS3slider, I felt it necessary to re-look at the way the plug-in was structured. The result is a more robust and simpler plug-in that generates multiple galleries on a web page. This plugin now has the following features; Optionally provide a caption message and customise its [...]
Quick tip: Mounting CIFS volumes on Linux
I recently got myself a Netgear ReadyNAS duo. Amazing bit of kit, best purchase I’ve made in a while. OneI always run into is remembering how to mount a CIFS volume. Do do this, create a mount point (I choose /mnt/cifs but use whatever you want), then execute the following command; $ mount -t cifs [...]
WPS3Slider plugin for WordPress
This is my first contribution to the WordPress community. It is a plugin that will allow you to place s3slider galleries anywhere within your WordPress install. To render the images, the plugin uses the swiss army knife for dyamic thumbnail generators, timthumb. You can obtain the latest version of this plugin by visiting the plugin [...]
Using multiple database connections with Yii framework
There may be occasions where you will need to set up database connections to more than one database. This guide will show you the easy way to set up these resources. In your main.php config file, you may already have a db component set up by default. //.. main.php ‘db’=>array( ‘connectionString’ => ‘mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdrive’, ‘emulatePrepare’ => [...]
WordPress Skeleton Theme for Developers
If you are a frequent WP developer then you’ll know the time consuming job of setting up a completely new theme. Today I have created a basic theme that is free to use for anyone creating a new site. It features a developer options page in the Appearance Panel where you can configure such things [...]
SQL JOIN statements
When working with relational databases, you will often find that the data your require can reside on multiple tables. In simple terms, a join statement brings together these tables using a common identifier. Joins are the best way to query a database whilst improving transaction efficiency. An example We’ll create two tables, a users and [...]
Calculating the radius of a coordinate using PHP
Sometimes you’ll want to get the radius of a location. For this I have written a function that I’ll share with you. /* Copyright 2009 Kevin Bradwick (http://www.kevinbradwick.co.uk) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software [...]
Creating custom page layouts with WordPress
If you are using WordPress to create a website, and you want to avoid it looking like a blog, then you need to look at creating custom pages. The ‘page.php’ file displays your generic page content using this template. You could customise this page to make it look as you want and set it as [...]
Fixing the pagination error using custom permalink structure in WordPress
For a while this has been really annoying me. Whenever I use the permalink structure /%category%/%postname%/ I get 404 errors when using the next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link(). I a fix for this here. You can use this code in a themes functions.php file or use it as a plugin. /* Plugin Name: Fix Paging in Category [...]
Grant remote access to MySQL
If you’ve installed MySQL on a machine other than your work station (localhost) and you want to use the MYSQL GUI tools to administer the server then you’ll need to grant remote acccess on the root account (or another account that has useful privileges. This is how to do it. Connect via SSH and login [...]
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