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Our finance website – managed by my brother, Jason – formerly used WordPress posts (in their own category) to showcase individual customer testimonials. The creation of the individual posts for each each testimonial was a grossly inefficient solution because a visitor would have to navigate multiple pages to read individual endorsements. Of course, there’s easier [...]
We’ve previously looked at how to include YouTube video views into your WordPress post or page with shortcode; this post will show you how to include your channel’s total video view and/or subscriber count into your WordPress website. Accessing the YouTube API via the below address will reveal numerous pieces of data pertaining to your [...]
I’ve got a YouTube channel associated with one of my aviation websites that isn’t – or at least wasn’t – tied to our website in any way. It adds to the fractional nature of a website that already has a disconnected reach. Since we’re currently embarking on various projects that’ll give video a huge emphasis, [...]
Google Plus is an awesome platform but it’s lacking in terms of the API offerings. Simply adding something such as your last post to your WordPress blog is somewhat of a chore. This post will detail how to include your latest Google+ post titles to your page using (previously provided) WordPress shortcode. Alternatively, you might [...]
The favicon was introduced by Microsoft in 1999 as part of Internet Explorer 5. Uploaded to the root directory of a website, the small 16×16 image (or .ico file), would render in the favorites menu and URL address bar. Update, 21st May 2013: The new favicon system – based on what is described below – [...]
The purpose of this post is to show you how to determine the status (primarily online or offline) of a remote webpage using cURL (and other methods). This post is a precursor to the article that follows, titled “Resolve Short URLs To Their Destination URL with PHP“. For the sake of it, a small WordPress [...]
Skype is increasingly becoming a cost-effective means of business communication. As a business, it lessons the barriers associated with first contact and, as a consumer, it provides a safe and cost-effective alternative to traditional landline and cellular services. Apart from the personal and professional reasons I use Skype, I’m finding that I’m using it more [...]
The Twitter and Facebook style of referencing time since a post was published is becoming increasingly popular. Basically, instead of a standard date and time, both platforms will display a post timestamp in simple language (example: Posted 5 hours ago, Posted 2 days ago, Posted 15 seconds ago… and so on). This timestamp functionality is [...]
PageRank is one of those topics that’s grossly misunderstood by almost all of those that talk about it… mainly because the specifics of Google’s algorithm is a closely guarded secret. What we do know, however, is that links to your webpage from popular websites contributes towards a higher PageRank score. Incoming links to your website [...]
Like everything Google, there’s very little that the YouTube API doesn’t offer. However, the following PHP function (and WordPress shortcode) will do nothing other than retrieve the view count given a video ID. Having just built a cool YouTube application I’ll be sure to post some code sometime in the future. YouTube Video Count Shortcode [...]
There are hundreds of functions found over the web that can be used to find the real IP address of a visitor. Here’s one function that works well for me. The function searches environmental variables, validates a likely IP against PHP5′s filter_var() function and then returns the value. function get_ip_address() { foreach (array('HTTP_CLIENT_IP', 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED', [...]
Marty has been involved with online application development for a number of years and has worked with large scale applications both as a coder and project manager. He is currently actively contributing to 7 blogs and maintains over 300 websites. 
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