While working on my webslice, I wanted to add some content to let the users know what’s happening on the website. So I was thinking to provide some random posts from my blog. Most of us know how to use the WordPress default methods to get the posts, to ask for random ones, but how to do it outside the warm WordPress environment? I started digging in MySQL help (soon I should become a guru 😉 ) and find out that it is quite simple if all you want to do is to return some random rows from a table, […]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
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It is very nice and user-friendly to have Webslices on your website. It improves the user experience by allowing visitors to be up to date with the latest content that you provide, assuming that it is fitted to this presentation style
How to backup and restore your Wordpress' MySQL database in no time. From time to time, you’ll need to get a backup of your MySQL database and install it on a different machine.
Webslice is a chunk of information, allowing you to stay up-to-date with the latest news without actually needing open a website. For example, my website provides a webslice for BNR exchange rates, allowing you to keep up with latest information available.
This is the second part of managing WordPress feature of post revisions, for the users who had disabled or turned off post revisions tracking or versions history feature. As you already know, this feature exists in WordPress (starting with WordPress 2.6). After disable it (of course, if you really need to do that), it also make sense to also delete and remove all existing stored post revisions. By doing so, you’ll remove changes made on pages stored in the database such that you’ll slim down the wp_posts table size´. This is especially recommended when there is already lots of revisions […]
A very interesting feature added in WordPress is the post revisions tracking, like in version control systems. During the life of your Wordpress website database may grow bigger and filled with useless data, mostly when user prefer the built-in editor and clicks often on “Save†button .These revisions are stored the WordPress database in wp_posts table, with post_type set to ‘revision’.
I faced an issue while working with an xml file in Flash. I was unable to parse the xml data using the normal E4X syntax such as xml.node1.node2. It would give an error. The only thing different about this particular xml is that it has a lot of namespaces declared in it. After going through the documentation I found out a way to handle this issue.
How to implement syntax highlighting on your website and which languages are supported by this tool.
I wanted to install the original highlighter, Alex Gorbatchev’s one, but its website is quite cryptic when sharing installation information. I will share this with you and I hope that you’ll have easier time to implement it than me.
As a business card represents your business or your position in it, the same applies to a website. By using a Favicon to you will improve your website personalization and when users will bookmark you, the picture will always remember them about you. Thus, the favicon is critical to it’s identity.