Category: php
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Improving my coding efficiency in vim
I have been using Vim for most editing for about 12 years now. I think I tried it for the first time in about 2003, and quickly gave up. Then in 2004 my roommate at the time convinced me to give it another try, and I quickly got hooked. I wrote my dissertation completely in…
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Random featured images in wordpress
I’ve had random header images on the Fedibblety Family blog for quite some time. I originally implemented this by looking for images in a particular directory. However, I had to manually add pictures to this directory, which was a bit cumbersome. I started thinking, why not just select randomly from all the featured images I…
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Site redesign
I started my website in 2003. At the time it was hosted by the University of Michigan, where I was a graduate student. They gave all students some space for a personal website. It was really great, though it did come with some limitations, like no php or cgi allowed. I managed to kludge some…
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New WordPress plugin – Image Browser
Today I released my 8th wordpress plugin. This one is quite a bit different from all the other plugins I have written. A friend of mine was looking for a way to create a gallery on his family blog. “No problem!”, I told him, “there are lots of plugins for that”. But I then quickly…
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Showing total number of replies in bbpress
For awhile now I have been wanting to show the total number of topics started and replies in a bbpress forum on the profile page. Today I finally figured out how. I like bbpress quite a bit, as it integrates very nicely into wordpress. The main downside of bbpress right now is that the documentation…