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Archive for January, 2010

Jan
25

Let Your Database Do The Work For You

in Blog, PHP, SQL | Post Comment

In the below examples I’ll use data from a fictional database table named “users”. We’re looking to return the 10 most recently added users with a date of birth later than January 1st 1970.
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Jan
18

Auto-Post Your Blog to Twitter and Facebook

in Blog, The Web with 7 Comments

Okay, so you’ve gone through those guides on setting up your new weblog, and followed all the advice on using social media to leverage your site into becoming Ă¼ber-successful overnight. The problem now is that those two elements are still detached. You’re posting all that relevant content on your website but nobody is around to click those links that direct to all that beautiful material.

This is not an article on improving your follower count or the “top 10 ways to drive traffic with SEO“, but it will definitely help in a different way. Today, I’ll show you how to automatically post your blog articles straight to your Twitter and Facebook accounts using your RSS feed as a stream.

For those of you writing #daily365 articles, or have signed up for Project52, this will be ideal. Let the computers do the work for you.

The service I use for this is called TwitterFeed, which you’ll need an account for. It’s all super easy and I’ll explain it after the jump. So anyway, here we go. Read More »

Jan
11

The New Improved Tweet Cloud And Why You Should Use It

in My Work, Plugins with 1 Comment

Actually, this one’s long overdue. My Tweet Cloud plugin for WordPress has recently passed over the 500 download mark and, as of last week, is now on its fifth release (v 1.4).

It’s had some significant improvements over its lifetime, and has quite frankly surprised me at how popular it has become. Especially from a script written in a night with nothing more than a simple idea behind it. Read More »

Jan
4

The PHP Include

in Blog, PHP with 1 Comment

At the point that your site becomes more complex, you look to ways of simplifying your page code to give yourself less headaches. Ultimately you’re looking for a way to separate that header that you’ve copy-pasted so many times to different static web pages, into a page that all your other pages can call, and will stay the same.

If like me you hadn’t heard about PHP until this point where you are looking to add in other scripts to your web pages, then now is a very good time to learn about PHP includes.

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< ?php include( 'header.html' ); ?>

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