get_cat_name is a simple useful function to get the category name from its id in wordpress, there isn’t one for tag (and you cant use the same one…) so here’s I adapted it for tags. TBH its super lazy to be using this, but meh. Uses get_term. I am writing Automated Editor, a wordpress plugin […]
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Hackers wrecking your shared host account? Check your Website Portfolio Integrity
10 days of perpetual issues with hackers. 10 DAYS. 100+ sites bombed randomly between every 5 minutes and 5 hours and that’s only after proper detection, who knows how far it had gone before. But from the relentless irritation some positives developed, if you are in the (precarious) position of hosting LOTS of websites on […]
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Forget Inertia – A new era.
There is by far enough written words about the freedom and positives of leaving ones established job, for better or for worse I think it is the right way forward for me, now. I have had a long list of things to post about, technology thoughts and projects completed; now thankfully I have the control […]
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Facebook Graph Api – Is user a fan of page id – Using FQL and opengraph to mimic Pages.IsFan
Working with integration of Facebook Connect for authentication is mostly easy at the moment, once you have got your head around FBML etc. However as they are in between switching from the old Restful API and the new graph API there remains the odd little thing that has only a splatter of useful documentation online. […]
Also posted in Facebook Graph API, Facebook Pages, Social Media, Web Development Tagged facebook, fan gating, fan page, FQL
Multiple WordPress blogs from 1 instance / 1 wordpress folder to maintain
WordPress is a victim of its own success, but its no victim. It is huge. Millions upon millions of people use wordpress to power their blogs (like this one for example) to make money and to have their voice present on the internet. It has become a first stop for a huge host of people […]
Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Transactional SQL, Web Development, Web Technology, Wordpress
Ebay Partner Network Xmas Bonus? – EPN Look after their affiliates
Those of you that make good money out of eBay probably noticed the downtime last month. For me it had an affect on my epn earnings for around 5 days. The problem (in my case at least) seemed to be with RSS feeds called from php (curl.) But it could simply have been a server […]
Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Web Development Tagged ebay partner network
ASP/PHP Network Share browsing between Servers on IIS
Its always the simple things that take longer than expected, if you are trying to access a network share, say \\server1\netshare$ from some code on your webserver (say \\server2) – you would think this would be simple? If your on IIS you would be wrong, kind of. I think if you are on Apache this […]
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ionCube on 1and1 shared hosting
…I needed to use ionCube for Auction 2 Post but it takes an odd combination of files to get it working so heres how to get ionCube loaders to work on 1 and 1 shared hosting (spoon fed): 1. Use getcwd to find the working directory (make a new .php file with two lines “echo […]
Also posted in Web Development Tagged 1and1, Auction2Post
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