Posts tagged "PHP"

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DM Blog 2013

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:08:29 -0500 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

I've changed my blog's design several times over the years but I hadn't noticed that it's always been in December/January every year. This time, I decided to rewrite everything from the ground up – here are a couple features that I added...

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WordPress Tag Cloud with Post Counts

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:42:38 -0400 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

One of the things that has annoyed me about WordPress for a long time is the inability to display a post count next to each tag in a tag cloud. Here's the code I came up with to accomplish this.

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How to Use Tweet Entities

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:25:32 -0400 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

On my sites, I'm using the URL entities to display long URLs in a shorter, more visually appealing way; hashtag entities to make hashtags clickable links; user_mention entities to make usernames clickable links; and media entities to display any linked photos right on the page...

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HTML5 History API

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:04:39 -0400 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

When re-designing my music site, I wanted to make sure that visitors could bookmark and share the original URL of the page without any appended #hashes. This was perfect for HTML5's History API.

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DM Rating Stars – WordPress Plugin

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:55:17 -0500 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

For quite some time, I've been using my own custom plugin on my WordPress blog – one of the features my plugin adds is the ability to add rating stars to posts, and now, I've decided to make it available for download.

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DanielMenjivar.com Technologies

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:16:46 -0400 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

In a previous post, I briefly highlighted some of the end-user improvements I made to my music site, and now in this post, I want to get a little deeper into things...

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The New DanielMenjivar.com

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:06:35 -0400 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

Almost eight months after starting to update my music website, the new site is finally up. Here's a couple improvements worth mentioning that might not be so obvious at first glance...

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PHP Code: Twitter CRON Job

Wed, 12 May 2010 09:58:49 -0400 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

A while back, I posted about how I was using the Twitter API's to display the location info for my tweets. I've had a lot of requests to share some of that code, so here it is...

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Twitter Location Info

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:02:26 -0400 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

I've made some changes to the way my Twitter updates are displayed on my websites. I'm now including the name of the community where my tweets were posted from, and I've made several backend changes to how that data is being fetched.