NoFollow links in comments within WordPress
I’ve recently added comments back into my blog. I know that Askimet will do the majority of the work in protecting me from SPAM, but I wanted to make sure Read More »
Author Archives: Douglas Radburn
Only display add a comment if the post is recent in WordPress
I’ve always got quite a lot of comment spam on the blog, and this is mostly for older posts that I assume are already dead and wouldn’t be commented on. Read More »
How to get a Twitter feed into your WordPress theme
Since Twitter changed things, you’re probably better off looking at A WordPress Twitter stream, without the RSS… WordPress comes with a version of Magpie RSS as part of Read More »
Tags for custom post types
Custom post types can share tags with normal posts. To do this, add the following line into your custom post declaration. register_taxonomy_for_object_type(‘post_tag’, ‘portfolio’); Custom post types can actually also have Read More »
Accessing WordPress features outside of your WordPress template
This problem has come up once before, but I found another way of dealing with the issue. However, this time, it seems that I’m going to need to find a Read More »
How to get the children of a page (by slug)
Every now and then, I need to display a list of all the child pages of a top level page in WordPress. This might be for a sub menu, or Read More »
WordPress data import
I imported 900 odd articles from a website we’re migrating from another system into WordPress. The information was in CSV format, so I built a quick and dirty PHP script Read More »
Safari 5 “reader” mode
Interesting article over at theregister about Safari 5’s new “reader” function. And the page is also a living example of a page compatible with it too. Apparently, if Safari 5 Read More »
douglasradburn.co.uk – a redesign
It seems from time to time, I like to refresh the design of this blog and try to re-enter the “blogsphere”. Really, I should just name my blog something obvious, Read More »
BBFC lose game rating classification
Interesting article over at El Reg regarding Elspa taking over gaming classification from BBFC. Elspa’s PEGI system has been in place for a while, with recent updates to the rating Read More »
Facebook Zero – Who cares?
Facebook has released a new version of Facebook aimed specifically at mobile phones in what can only be an effort to save bandwidth for mobile networks. The new version is Read More »
Unicode
It’s been interesting to see the rise of Unicode (now version 5.2). Its’ usage is a boon to programming types, but also to the everyday public as Google have just Read More »