If you run a website that has a contacts form or any other input from users. sooner or later you will start getting attacked by internet robot zombies. What is a “internet robot zombies” you ask? Well lets break it up a little bit. A robot is a program that someone has written, that searches [...]
This code snippet should let you add a new post to your wordpress database 2.5.1 require_once(‘wp-config.php’); // create post object class wm_mypost { var $post_title; var $post_content; var $post_status; /* publish, private */ var $post_author; /* author user id (optional) */ var $post_name; /* slug (optional) */ var $post_type; /* ’page’ or ’post’ (optional, defaults to ’post’) */ var $comment_status; /* open or closed for commenting (optional) */ var $post_category ; } // initialize post object $wm_mypost = new wm_mypost(); $wm_mypost->post_title = "Title2 ". date( ’r' ); $wm_mypost->post_content = "content3"; $wm_mypost->post_status = ’publish’; $wm_mypost->post_author = 1; // Catagorys $post_category = split("," , "one"); foreach($post_category as $key=>$val) { $post_category[$key] = get_cat_ID($val); } $wm_mypost->post_category = $post_category ; // Optional; uncomment as needed // $wm_mypost->post_type = ’page’; // $wm_mypost->comment_status = ’closed’; // feed object to wp_insert_post $post_ID = wp_insert_post($wm_mypost); echo date( ’r' ) . "\n"; echo "post_ID:". $post_ID . "\n";
This tutorial will walk you thou the steps to install PHPBB3 on your system. Intro PHPBB3 has become one of the more popular bulletin board system (AKA, BBS, or forums) available. It is used for all types of websites, from corporate websites, online stores, online hobby groups, ect. One of the main selling points for [...]
To help stop spam activate the Akismet plugin. Login to your wordpress blog On the right hand side there is a pugin button, click it Activate Akismet plugin (download here if its not all ready installed) Get a WordPress API key http://wordpress.com/api-keys/ (its free) Set the WordPress API key in the Akismet settings page. 99.98 [...]
On EveryDayFiction.com, in the titles of the posts our editors insisted on including a non alphanumeric character. The little dot that separates the title from the author. This causes havoc with a lot of my scripts and is really freaking annoying. This handy little function strips all the non alphanumeric character from the string. function [...]
I was browsing warrenellis.com website the other day and tuned in to his 4am pod cast. After it was done I went to leave a comment only to find that comments have been turned off. Instead he suggest that you make a comment on your own site and use a track back to his website. [...]
One problem i have is that while i am browsing around the internet making comments on peoples blogs i often forgot to check back in a week to see if there are any responses. Some people have ‘Subscribe to comments via email’ plugin installed but it dosn’t work one blogs that get 100+ comments per [...]
These are some of the mistakes I have made over the past few years with Blogging and web design. These mistakes have cost me hours of extra work and in some cases months headache’s. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes and save yourself some time. Used a sub directory – When you browse to [...]
Today I read a post by Jane May at John chow dot com, The Secrets of Picking A Niche its a good read if you got 7 mins to spare. The article talks about how to pick the right Niche or subject for your blog or upcoming website. It got me thinking about my own [...]
Back in the day, there was a major problem with people posting garbage comments on blogs or forms so they could get back links to there site. Every time they made a new post they would get anther back link and there ranking would rise. Then google and yahoo introduced the nofollow link parameter that [...]
I get asked this question lot, how to change the default size of the thumbnail that wordpress creates when you upload an image. There are two different ways of doing it depending on what version of your WordPress you have installed. If you have WordPress prior to 2.1 Open /wp-admin/inline-uploading.php and look for the following [...]
Technorati is becoming one of the biggest players in blogging. Its a great tool for ranking one site against anther and its also a search engine of content. Before I make a post I do a quick search on Technorati and see who else has written about it. After I make a post I search [...]