Posts Tagged ‘PHP’

GoDaddy and Increasing Your WordPress Max Upload Size

Friday, February 26th, 2010

So I’ve never been crazy about GoDaddy’s hosting service, for a number of different reasons, but today I had an awesome experience with their customer service. A client of mine has a shared hosting account and they wanted to increase the Maximum File Upload size allowed in WordPress. He called GoDaddy and their support provided him with a link which directed him to modify the PHP.INI file through SSH.
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WordPress Calendar Plugin: Display Posts By Date & Category

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

In my ongoing effort of not re-inventing the wheel, I spent hours upon hours looking through ALL of the available WordPress calendar plugins for a project that I had been working on.

My Needs:

  1. AJAX (required asynchronous navigation between months)
  2. Query posts by category (would be nice if I could select the category)
  3. Associate posts with their dates.
  4. Highlight calendar date when a post exists.
  5. A tooltip that would display post titles and link to individual posts (past, current, and future) when a highlighted date is selected.

Note: The tooltip would also allow me to display multiple posts per day should that be the case.
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Displaying YouTube Thumbails in Your WordPress Posts

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Since I already wrote the snippet of code to get the thumbnails from the embedded Vimeo video, I thought I might as well do the same for YouTube. It will search through your posts’ content for YouTube embed code and will generate a thumbnail for you. It’s not fancy but it gets the job done.
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Displaying Vimeo Thumbnails In Your Blog Post or Archive

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

With WordPress 2.9, you can now embed videos by simply pasting the URL into your blog post and have it create the embed code. I was using Vimeo and wanted to pull the thumbnail associated with the Vimeo video which was embedded in my posts.
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