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Category: Wordpress Development

  • Planet WordPress Plugin Released

    I love the Planet feed aggregator, but I hate managing it via a text configuration file. I created a WordPress plugin that automatically creates a Planet configuration file from the links that are stored in a WordPress database. Every time a link is updated, deleted, or created, a new planet configuration is generated. For more…

  • Geo Blogroll Plugin Released

    I had promised to clean up and release some of the plugins that went into creating Streetsblog.net. Here is the first one: Geo Blogroll.

  • Exporting Posts from WordPress 2.5

    Recently I tried exporting some posts from one WordPress 2.5 blog to another WordPress 2.5 blog. The import worked perfectly, but then I realized that I had forgotten to import one of the posts. Rather than doing to the whole import again, I decided to just import the post that I had forgotten. Unfortunately, WordPress…

  • Streetsblog.NET Launch

    A few coworkers and I launched Streetsblog.NET yesterday. The website is actually a vanilla install of WordPress working in conjunction with a vanilla install of Planet with a bunch of custom WordPress plugins. I will release the plugins when I get some time to clean them up.

  • Adding Meta Information to a Blogroll

    I found a useful blog post on how to add text fields to the “link management” admin menu in WordPress:  http://planetozh.com/blog/2008/02/wordpress-snippet-add_meta_box/ But how do you save this information into your database?  This is a three step approach. 1.  Add the fields to you database: add_action(‘activate_geo_blogroll.php’,’geo_blogroll_update_db’); function geo_blogroll_update_db(){ global $wpdb; $wpdb->query(“ALTER TABLE $wpdb->links ADD COLUMN link_city…

  • WordPress 2.6 and Captions

    Last week, The Open Planning Project premiered a new blog called Gotham Schools.  As a blogging platform, we decided to give the newly released WordPress 2.6 a go.  The one feature WordPress added that excited us the most was the ability to add captions to images.  Soon, however, we realized that WordPress/TinyMCE strips any html…