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Today I had a need to get all posts between to dates in WordPress, between now and a year ago. After searching and searching I could find the answer I needed. So I decided to just write the query myself which I have done many times before but not with WordPress’ database scheme.
On April 9th I had given a jQuery Presentation on the basics of using jQuery and how to punch up your site with some minor animations. All in all the presentation went over well and I got a lot of good questions. Since my days at UPS I’ve never been real good at creating Power Points to give my presentations. I’ve always been better at just showing, planning what I want to talk about and then just letting the presentation flow. Which can be good and bad depending on if the crowd asks questions. With that said, I did not create any Power Points slided, but since a got a good amount of emails asking me to post them, I decided to just create a screencast that covers everything we went over, answering the questions that were asked during the presentation.
As you very well know by now, I have created quite a few image / photo galleries and the ultimate goal was to allow them to be as unobtrusive as possible. Well, the other day I got into a discussion with a co-worker and the questions he asked were, “How is that unobtrusive?”, referring to my gallery plugins, “The images are in list elements?” My answer to that was, “They can be styled to have each list element float and punched up a bit.” His rebuttal, “But what if styles were off also?” I hesitated for a second and he know he had won this conversation and silently walked away.
After building my first few WordPress plugins I learned quite a few things that I just could not find good information on. So what I will be doing over a couple or so posts is explaining what the problem/issue was that I had and show you how I went about resolving the problem/issue.
Back in December I released a WordPress plugin called Benjamin Sterling Galleries that was pretty good. Then a friend suggested that I should change the name because it was a bit “ego” driven and would not really grab anyones attention. I told him I liked that name, but would be open to suggestions. He had none.
As some of you may know I have been working on adding a bunch of functionality to my WordPress plugin BSG and with many sleepless nights and countless hours (203) I have release beta 2 of the plugin under the new name PhotoXhibit.
Better design; better accessibly; less suck. BenjaminSterling.com has been redesigned!!!
Ok, enough of the says pitch lets get to what has changed and what is better and what still needs to be worked on.
If you are anything like me, you find using the Rich Text editor for Wordpress to be a bit daunting for any number of reason. For me, it is mainly when I go to add custom code and go back to the visual editor and it just disappears. Yes I know I can go in and hack the thing to get it to appreciate my code, but really, I find that to be to much work. Besides, I found a really nice alternative, Quicktags!
Not sure if you have noticed just yet, but Gmail has made changes to there chat feature, adding support for group chats and better emoticons.
Just launched! Chat just got better with group chat and new emoticons.
Group chat
Chat with multiple people without multiple windows. Invite your friends to a group discussion. To […]
Here is a quick tip for adding rss feeds of your favorite sites to the tip / sponsored link / web clip area of Gmail.
The area in question:
We will do this by going to “Settings” which will be at the top right of the page. Once there go to “Web Clips” and in the “Search […]
