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Facebook Social Graph WordPress Integration

I love WordPress and have written about them creating WordPress plugins and given away some free ones. Today I created a plugin that allows you easily integrate WordPress and the Facebook’s open social graph. <?php /* Plugin Name: Facebook Social Meta Plugin URI: hhttp://createmy.com.au/ Description: This plugin will add the Facebook social meta tags to [...]

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MySQL via SSH for PHP

I was moving a site from one server to another which has a lot of database transactions, and I did not want to lose any. So at 2am I started the move, at this time the traffic is fairly quiet. Then I realised that neither hosts allowed remote access to MySQL without their super admin’s [...]

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Writting a WordPress Plugin

In my post ‘Changing the WordPress Search Form to HTML5‘ I mentioned it could be a made into a plugin. Today we will have a quick look at writing a plugin. We will be building a useless plugin which does basic word filtering, which will change ‘the’ to ‘da’, though not in any smart way. [...]

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Quick Tip – Changing the WordPress Search Form to HTML5 – Free Plugin

It kind of sucks the new WordPress 3′s search form is not HTML 5 when the Twenty10 Theme is. Our new search form will look like the below in Safari. To make the search form HTML 5, add the following to the functions file of your theme or create a plugin. As a bonus I [...]

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HTML 5 – Easier and Better Than XHTML

HTML 4.01 was replaced by XHTML, which 18 months ago I was praising XHTML as the greatest thing. XHTML is a strict version of XML and HTML. XHTML aimed to be a pure XML language and dropped most of the formatting elements like the font, b (bold) and i (italics) tags. XHTML was strict and [...]

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Microsoft, Adobe Talk HTML6

So while we are all trying to get our heads across HTML 5, the two companies taking the biggest amount of flack about HTML 5 are giving talks about HTML 6. HTML 6 is looking to be very vector focused =). Read the article – Microsoft, Adobe Talk HTML6

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HTML 5 The DOCTYPE

In my last post I stated “by introducing the new version of HTML 5 developers will find it much easier to build sites”. So I guess a good place to start with making HTML 5 simpler is to start from the top, which actually is probably the most complicated part of XHTML and HTML. Most [...]

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HTML 5 in 5 minutes

HTML 5 is quite a hot topic at the moment, with good reason. HTML 5 is the first major update to HTML in over a decade. In the decade there was XHTML. XHTML was too limiting and very few sites actually were XML documents because they did not render in all browsers. XHTML did teach [...]

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FunkAll.com – Lessons from other social media sites

So I have started to rebuild my old site FunkAll.com. Basically FunkAll is an old social networking site. I originally built it before people understood what social networking was.Back in 2004 people were very skeptical of interacting and sharing your entire life online. Today people are a lot different and in some cases willing to [...]

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I have rereleased FunkAll.com

I have finally gotten around to rereleasing by old (2004) social networking site http://funkall.com Check it out. Dale

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