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Programming

Looking for a YouTube Wordpress Plugin

September 29, 2008

As both Youtube and Wordpress are mature products I would have imagined this plugin existed hower after several days looking it doesn’t look like it’s available.
I’m looking for a wordpress plugin that use the youtube API and automatically pulls in new videos as they are posted and automatically creates a single post for them. I’m [...]

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Looking for a Chumby Calendar Widget

September 27, 2008

One of the things that’s really missing from my chumby is a simple calendar widget. I’m just looking for simple month view and the ability to flip back and forth through months.The widget exists in German but not in english. I even tried pulling up the Google Calender widget and attaching it to blank calendar, [...]

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Redirect Single Page for Search Engine Query

September 10, 2006

So if anyone reading this is an htaccess expert and can give a me a little help I’d appreciate it. I’m looking to trap for queries for a specific term from a search engine for a specific page and redirect them elsewhere. For example:
if the query was
http://www.google.com/search?q=foo*
and it went to
http://www.wolf-howl.com/foo/
I’d like to redirect to
http://example.com/foo/
for [...]

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Htaccess %3F Rewrite

May 23, 2006

All right I’ve looked around can’t seem to find the answer, so hopefully one of my nice readers knows the answer and will share. I’m getting a bunch of inbound links that look like this
http://www.wolf-howl.com/%3Fp=324
http://www.wolf-howl.com/%3Fp=325
http://www.wolf-howl.com/%3Fp=326
%3F is the URLencoded character for a [?]. I could do something manual but I’m looking for a slicker more programatic [...]

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Wordpress 2.0 Permalinks, Error Codes, and Google Sitemaps

May 6, 2006

So I’m working on using Wordpress as a CMS for a “static looking” site and so far I’m pretty happy (get the static front page plugin it saves oodles of time). I’ve learned to keep my hacks in the templates and out of the “program files”. I’ve also moved to using permalinks and have the [...]

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Contact Form Exploits

February 11, 2006

I’m currently having a major battle with one of my hosting companines about an exploit someone is running against a contact form on one of my sites (more about that another time). However I’m a firm believer in contact forms because they would be something people would look for to get a sense of trust [...]

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Protopage

December 28, 2005

Protopage is a really neat ajax-style web 2.0 internet based desktop. It is fully configurable page with sticky notes, personalized news, RSS Updates, and bookmarks. A really neat thing it does is let you set up multiple pages, so you could categorize things. [...]

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Wordpress, How Many Days Old is the Post

December 14, 2005

Over on Performancing.com Andy, says the money is in the archives, stupid. Nick talks about Monetizing your Blog, by showing different levels of advertising based on how old post is and whether someone is logged in or not. Now Andy’s doing a blog monetization makeover, and time sensitive ads came up again. Since I’ve [...]

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Add to Del.icio.us JavaScript

August 25, 2005

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If you run a blog, forum, news website, or anything other kind of website that you want people to add to their del.icio.us bookmarks, feel free to grab my Add to Del.icio.us JavaScript. It’s a nice simple little piece of code that gets [...]

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Blogging Tip : Permalink

August 21, 2005

If you write a blog or read them regularly chances are you come across the term permalink. A permalink is supposed to do two things:

First it establishes a cool URI (see Cool URI’s don’t change).
Secondly it helps combat linkrot.

So most blogs have permalink or similar concept, which is a good thing. The problem however [...]

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