In working with a client on performance issues with their wordpress powered website on iPads they were using to beta test, one strange thing became apparent, there was some correlation to a user being logged into the site and the page being choppy and not smooth when the user was not logged in.  Keep reading …

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In working with Nginx webserver and a client who wanted to have customized apple touch icons display when an end user bookmarked their page or used the “send to desktop” button within Safari to show their customized icon, we discovered an issue that seemed to creep up out of the blue with apple touch icons. …

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Recently, in a WordPress project I have been working on, I had the need to mass set or remove the post password as it was set on various posts that were contained in a WordPress site.  The way this site was setup, all the posts were named a certainly prefix as it was essentially being …

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In working on a special project as of late, I ran into a situation where I needed to have the post password reset on posts upon an insert into a custom mysql table in the same database where wordpress was housed.  Each post in this environment acts like a “checkin” and “checkout” type setup where …

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With many wordpress projects going on recently, I have had quite a few different requests to accomplish things as cheaply as possible (aka free) without having to involve 3rd party services.  One client recently needed the ability to send text message alerts out to those from their company who wanted to subscribe to the service. …

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In working with a client recently I had the special case instance where the client had named the post titles based on a set numeric naming convention as they were using their wordpress instance as more of a CMS to serve special data.  The titles were being pulled dynamically from MySQL and had a leading …

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In working with a client who had a number of static posts that were named according to a set naming covention.  By default of course WordPress orders posts by the date of post so that you always see the most recent post even in the admin area.  However, the client wanted to set wordpress post …

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You may find yourself in need of creating a drop down box listing of all your posts on your blog or maybe a subset of posts based on category.  There are a couple of ways to do this both by builtin functions in WordPress as well as by using a plugin to achieve the same. …

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One of the great features of WordPress is the availability of add ins in the form of plugins.  There are so many available, that it can literally be said that if you can think of something you want your blog to do, there is probably a plugin out there that can make it possible.  One …

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Creating websites these days are easier than ever with so many places that offer free tools for building your website while taking care of much of the coding framework so you just have to worry about the content.  The problem with a lot of these tool driven sites is that you have to host a …

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