GeSHi WordPress Sample with Javascript
The WP-Syntax plugin allows easy insertion of code in blog posts, using GeSHi (Generic Syntax Highlighter). It supposedly supports over one hundred programming languages, including including PHP, HTML,...
View ArticleLessons Learned from 0 to 40,000 Readers
Starting Out I started writing a little over a year ago, after finding “Technical Blogging” by Antonio Cangiano through Hacker News. Since then, a bit over 40,000 people have read articles I’ve...
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Optimizing WordPress Tag Pages
Normally I don’t like to write about “blogging,” but since website traffic generates some interesting data, it’s worth looking at it from a computer science perspective, to see the issues involved. By...
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Installing the ELK stack on Azure
The “ELK stack” is an open source product offering used for indexing and searching server logs. This combines three open source tools (Elastic Search, LogStash, Kibana), which seem to be maintained by...
View ArticleWordPress: Add custom text to posts matching a tag
The example below shows how to add text to the bottom of posts, based on specific conditions. To get the right value for “custom_text”, you likely just want to add a paragraph tag, but you can copy...
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WordPress: Register Taxonomy Example (register_taxonomy)
If you create a new Post type in WordPress, it’s often useful to add a custom Taxonomy (similar to categories / tags on Posts). In this case, we’re adding an “error message” type (that contains lots of...
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WordPress: Add a custom type with custom fields
If you’ve used any system that allows for custom fields / custom entities, you may find the WordPress system quite alien (e.g.: compare to SalesForce, Documentum, SharePoint etc). Like most tools, the...
View ArticleWordPress: Exporting Settings for a plugin
Since every WordPress plugin runs custom PHP code, it can write to the filesystem, your database, and potentially remote storage (e.g. if you use a DropBox backup plugin). In this example I’m going to...
View ArticleCustomize WordPress footers by tag
Using the WordPress APIs, you can add custom footers to posts that key off tags. For instance, you could add links to related books on Amazon based on the topic of a post. This example will map tags to...
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