I’ve known about the Google App Engine (GAE) since it’s launch, have lauded it’s ambition and the service, but never did investigate much into it. I have been quite “at home” with PHP/MySQL and WordPress, and thus, there wasn’t much motivation to look into a python based service.
However, a recent ...
With the latest update of my URL Shortener Core Plugin to version 2.0 as well as the addon module to version 0.2, I made a overhaul to the coding, providing a unified class for processing the Short URL request.
Class.FTShortenThe new component of the core plugin. It contains the functions required ...
Automattic has released an upgrade to it’s popular WordPress blogging platform.
Version 2.9, also known as “Carmen” includes quite a notable number of additions like oembed support, batch plugin updating, a simple image editor as well as a “Windows recycle bin”-like feature for posts.
Under-the-hood improvements are ...
In a recent update to the WordPress.com stats plugin, the developers have added WP.me shortlink generation functionality to it as well.
What this entailsWith version 1.6 of the stats plugin, the once exclusive WP.me shortlink feature will now be available to all users of the self-hosted WordPress. It is ...
This post is published in response to a WordPress support thread, requesting such a functionality (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/338629)
Although the title of the post states that it is a tutorial, I haven’t really tested the following code extensively. It works on my test environment as well as a live blog ...
I was looking around in the WordPress support forums the other day and the question of how to add a second dynamic sidebar came up.
This is probably quite a common question, and it’s definitely one of the few things that I looked for when dynamic sidebars were introduced in WordPress. ...
Long time users of the WordPress blogging platform would know that the administration interface underwent changes when it reached version 2.5 and subsequently when version 2.7 was released. The interface has definitely improved quite abit over those years and all these changes were without a doubt, much welcomed.
However, I felt ...
While developing websites, most probably you would have heard about specifying canonical URLs or come across an article on it.
For the benefit of those who haven’t, URL Canonicalization, also known as URL normalization is a process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner. Search ...
Due to a request by a user in the WordPress support forums, I’ve updated the URL Shortener plugin to include the awe.sm service as well…
At the same time, I’ve also updated the post activation hook to take into account scheduled posts. Previously, Short URLs were not generated when ...
