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WordPress Plugin: Comment Author URL Stripper
As promised, I’ve created a plugin which removes the URL from a comment author if it contains any of the words specified in the Options screen. Too many people have been leaving comments and putting in yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc. as their web site and I got tired of editing those comments all of the time. (...)
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Short and Sweet Code
Short and sweet code techniques…Echo/Return Logic and Alternating Rows. (...)
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Google Adsense Flickering Fix
I don’t know how long I’ve been bothered by the Firefox problem with Google Adsense ad blocks. I’m sure you know what I’m referring to. While a web page is loading all you can see are Google ads flickering across the page. Or you’re on a site and when you move the mouse over a link, the Google ads flicker. It’s rather annoying. (...)
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WordPress Plugin Update Notification
Last night I went out searching for plugin updates. I use quite a few plugins at all of my sites, so I wanted to get everything updated. After visiting countless sites, I became frustrated. Most people post about their plugins on their own blogs, but finding some updates is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Today the light bulb went off. (...)
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Cheat Sheets
PHP and CSS cheat sheets. (Thanks If…Else!) (...)
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Card Converter Update
The Card Converter plugin has been updated. There were a few things that didn’t work after converting to be compatible with WP 1.5. (...)
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Tag, You’re It!
Since I started using Flickr earlier this month, I’ve falling in love with tags. Using categories in WordPress has always been a burden, so made the move to rid the site of them. Using tags is much better way to classify things in my opinion. You can view a heat map or full list of the tags used here at MDV. (...)
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Firefox on Steroids
As if Firefox wasn’t fast enough, you can make it run even quicker. (...)
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WordPress Fights Spam
As I mentioned on Friday, I had deactivated my spam prevention plugins. It’s been about 60 hours, but all of spam fighting techniques that are built into WordPress are working extremely well. One thing I noticed however was pingbacks automatically being approved. I had trackbacks moderated by a plugin I wrote, but otherwise they would have been approved also. (...)
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Fight the Spam
Last night I deactivated the WP Hashcash plugin here and at 2 Hole Cards to see how it goes. As of right now, the only spam plugin I have activated is my moderate trackback plugin. We’ll see how the spam prevention measures that are built into WordPress do. (...)
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I Code
Today was the first day in a long time that I didn’t want to leave work at 4:30. I’ve been coding a program for the past week and because of the short work day I didn’t get time to work on it until almost 4:00. I was just getting into the zone and found out where my bug was when a co-worker mentioned it was time to go home. Time flies when you’re doing what you like. (...)
Trackback and Pingback Moderation Updates
I’ve updated the plugins for moderating pingbacks and trackbacks. They now work like I should have first created them. The PB or TB is set to moderate before being committed to the database. This eliminates my query to the database and it also allows WordPress to send you the correct email message. The latest version for each is 1.2. (...)
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Updated WordPress Plugins
I’ve updated all of my WordPress plugins for WP 1.5 compatibility. Most of them would have functioned without a problem, so I didn’t make many changes. Enjoy! (...)
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MDV Archive
Want a better archiving system for WordPress? You may remember the old MtDewVirus archives system, but this is much better. The new theme system makes it possible. You can see it in action on the archives here at MtDewVirus and get the files at the MDV Archive page. (...)
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Forward
I’m pretty happy with the way the design turned out. I call it Forward because of it’s relation to my life right now. We can usually tell what is over our heads and what is under our feet, but we don’t always know what’s right in front of us. For instance, just look at the header and footer images. (...)
Change Of Scenery
MtDewVirus realy needs a change of scenery…I just haven’t wanted to spend the time on a new design though. WordPress 1.5 has entered the gamma stage, so it shouldn’t be long before the final release. Maybe that’s when I’ll work on some changes around here since there are some new features that I’ve planned to take advantage of for quite some time. (...)
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WordPress Plugin Repository
Recently, the WordPress Plugin Repository was launched, so I figured I should participate. I just got done adding all of my plugins. It’s a little bit of a process getting things in and out, but I think I got the hang of it now. I’ve created a page in the Wiki at wp-plugins.org that lists them all for easy access. (...)
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Coding Zone
I love it when I get into a coding zone. Over the last few days I’ve released moderation plugins, found a new contact form, fixed some of my old plugins, installed my archiving system on someone’s site, updated Poker Chip Tricks, and setup discussion forums. Phew! (...)
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Comment And Post Plugin Updates
I just updated almost all of the comment and post plugins. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions and fixes. Everything has been moved over the to WordPress Plugin Repository. See my list of plugins. (...)
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WordPress Plugins: Trackback And Pingback Moderation
These two plugins basically do the same thing, but I wanted to keep them seperate. When you turn one on, it will automatically place either all NEW trackbacks or all NEW pingbacks (depending on the plugin) into the comment moderation queue. It’s meant as a simple way to keep the spammers from getting these onto your site without you first approving them. (...)
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Trackback Spam
Now that I’ve gotten a handle on the comment spam taking over my blogs, I’m getting hit through other means. Trackbacks! I found a few hooks in the WP code that I can plug into, so tonight I plan to whip up a few plugins so that pingbacks and trackbacks can automatically be put into the moderation queue. At least that’s what I hope to accomplish. (...)
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Stop The Comment Spam
Hopefully comment spam is a thing of the past. I want to apologize to anyone who has attempted to comment recently and has been redirected to the FBI’s site. I think my comment spam checking system was going a little haywire from all of the spammers and it was flagging some of you that were attempting to leave legitimate comments. (...)
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WordPress Comment SPAM Plugins
I’m now using two plugins to help me combat comment SPAM. The first is Kitten’s Spam Words, which gives you an easy way to delete comments and mark them as spam at the same time. This helps to create a list of comment spam words in WordPress so that further comments will automatically be held for moderation. The second plugin is Mark Ghosh’s Three Strikes Spam Protection. (...)
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Livesearch
Michael over at Binary Bonsai has implemented a Livesearch feature for WP. Very cool! (...)
WordPress Plugin: Card Converter
Card Converter is a WordPress plugin with poker bloggers in mind, but it can be used by anyone who would like to display playing cards in posts and comments. It will take card abbreviations such as Ad (meaning Ace of diamonds) and convert it to a CSS graphical-like representation of the card. (...)
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WP-Dstats2
Sweet stats plugin for WordPress. Exactly what I’m looking for and very powerful. (...)
WordPress Pokerhand Plugin
Chris’s Pokerhand plugin for WordPress is one the greatest I’ve seen…at least for a poker player with a blog running WP. When you type a hand like AcKs (along with surrounding tags) it will display the “c” as a club and the “s” as a spade. Sweet! (...)
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More Pictorialis Bug Fixes
Found and fixed two more bugs in Pictorialis II. Here and here. (...)
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Next-Previous Fix for Pictorialis
Pictorialis II has had a problem with the Next Photo and Previous Photo links since it was released. After a post in the forums tipped me off, I came up with a solution. Fix yours! (...)
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WordPress Plugin: Last Modified
While working on my new Poker Chip Tricks site, I had the need to show the date and time that a post was last modified. I didn’t feel like looking around on the WP site to see if a plugin was already written, so I wrote my own. It’s just a simple little plugin, but it does exactly what I want it to. You can find it along with all of the other plugins that I’ve written. Enjoy! (...)
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Comments Posted Elsewhere
It’s been awhile since I’ve released any WordPress plugins or even worked on any for that matter. But today, I’m releasing a new one called Comments Posted Elsewhere. You can find it in the WP Plugins Repository here. The entire idea for this one goes out to Neil Uchitel who came to me with the idea. (...)
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WP-Amazon
If you include pictures of books, DVDs, or other things in posts, you need WP-Amazon, another great WordPress Plugin. (...)
Workin’ It
Today was one of the best days at work that I’ve had in a long time. It flew by because of this, so that was an added bonus. About 2 months ago I was assigned the task of HEAT Administrator for our Help Desk. No added pay or job title, just another responsibility. HEAT is our call logging system, which communicates with an SQL server as the back-end. (...)
PHP Sharing
Share your PHP code. Useful for quickly pasting some PHP code up to a site in order for someone else to troubleshoot a problem. Credit to: GoodSnake (...)
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Digital Fortress
Another great one by Dan Brown, but ranks 3rd of the three I’ve read so far. This one is a thriller based around the Cryptology department of the NSA. One of the agency’s former employees has created an unbreakable encryption algorithm and threatens to release it to the world if the NSA does not let the country know about their super code breaking computer. (...)
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3D CSS Box Model
A nice diagram that shows how CSS padding, border, margin, background-color, and background-image are stacked. (...)
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Matching Google Ads
So you want your Google Ads to match the rest of your page, but you have a style switcher. All of the sudden your green colored ads (that match your green style) don’t match the pretty pink style. See the problem? You may have noticed that my Ads change with the style. Here’s how I did it… Yes, I know it’s not an elegant solution, but it works. (...)
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WordPress Plugins
WordPress 1.2 is in final testing and the final release should be available sometime this week. There is a nice new plugin structure to replace the previous hacks functionality. As a result, I’ve ported some of my hacks over to plugins. Everything has been moved over the to WordPress Plugin Repository. See my list of plugins. (...)
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GMT vs. UTC
Recent updates to the way dates and times are stored in the MySQL database by WordPress are causing quite a stir at the Support Forums. When I ran a few upgrades the other day, the new code had a lot of bugs, so my site hit the shitter for a bit. Everything is running smooth again though after a few more updates. (...)
