Today’s handy WordPress code snippet is a simple way to retrieve user data based on the administrator email in WordPress. The email account I am referring to is the one listed under Settings > General and is the main admin email for your website. The above code example first loads the admin email from the […]
Have you ever needed to add the WordPress post thumbnail to an existing RSS feed? The below code will add a new element named <thumb> to your RSS feed. This element will contain a link to the post thumbnail as set in WordPress: Keep in mind using this technique will devalidate your RSS feed as […]
Have you ever wanted to create an easy backdoor way to auto-create an administrator account in WordPress? The below code snippet does just that! Simply place the code in your themes functions.php flie and upload to your web server: To activate this code simply visit http://example.com?backdoor=go When triggered the code will create a new administrator […]
By StrangeWork.com: Recently I created a new E-commerce website for a client of mine. I developed the new site as a subdomain under their existing domain (ex http://newsite.domain.com). Google ended up indexing around 4000 links from the subdomain I had created, so upon launching the new site I wanted to 301 redirect the subdomain links […]
By StrangeWork.com: This is the first article in a series of articles I plan to write on setting up a WAMP stack (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) on Windows Server 2003. I decided to install Apache HTTP Server on my dedicated Windows Server 2003 machine. I thought I would write a detailed article explaining the process […]
By StrangeWork.com: I’ve been receiving a lot of spam comments on my WordPress blog recently. I decided to increase my defenses and stop comment spam once and for all. Using the below three plugins you can virtually eliminate WordPress comment spam from your blog! All plugins work with WordPress 2.5.1 Akismet – Most blog owners […]
By StrangeWork.com: Last week the popular feed aggregator FriendFeed launched their new API. The new API makes it easy for anyone to create custom applications to interact with FriendFeed. Below is a script I wrote in ASP to post an image and link to your feed stream using XMLHTTP. I’ve included the complete script for […]
By StrangeWork.com: On February 28th, 2008 Pownce released version 2.0 of their API. The major update in this new version is the ability to post messages, links, files, events and even replies via the API directly to a Ponwce.com account. Below is an ASP script I wrote to update your Pownce profile automatically through the […]
By StrangeWork.com: Have you ever wanted to create a Wikipedia article, but weren’t entirely sure of the proper steps involved? Or maybe you’ve created an article in the past, but it keeps getting deleted by Wikipedia admins? In this article I am going to explain in detailed steps the correct way to create a Wikipedia […]
By StrangeWork.com: I was asked by a couple friends of mine, Brooke and Toni, about how to get more traffic to their blogs. I decided to write a quick tutorial to help everyone learn a couple techniques I use to help rank higher in search engines. Google Webmaster Tools Google Webmaster Tools have been around […]
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