Category Archives: Hacking

WordPress Tip: Modifying the Loop, Custom Posts Query to include all Post Types

The default post_type in query_posts is ‘post’, so other post types will not be in the loop unless they are specified. Here is an example of what you could include at the top of your template to include all post … Continue reading

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WordPress URL Rewrite

WordPress has it’s own URL management system, and when developing websites it’s convenient to be able to add new rules dynamically. I’ve used this for two websites, music.vtechphones.com and for a site I am building now. It’s also great to … Continue reading

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‘WordPress’ Social Networking Plugins

This is a selection of 21 WordPress plugins written by 23 people from around the world. They extend a blog with social, community, and networking features. Ranging from multi-user community sites, to plugins that deal with interactions between individual blogs, … Continue reading

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Memory Optimizations for Mochilla.com

I just spent the last two days optimizing the Python backend for the Mochilla.com website. We are running the website on a 256MB VPS at Slicehost. They have been getting a larger number of hits the last week because of … Continue reading

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Detecting Mobile Devices and Flash with JavaScript

For the Walldogs website we ran into some strange issues dealing with Flash. This is a non-issue for browsers that support the HTMLVideoElement, however not every browser does yet, so we must deal with the reality. Usually when you put … Continue reading

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