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Should You Remove Post Dates from Your WordPress Blog? 0

Aug28

You may be wondering why anyone would want to do this. Think about it, you probably have hundreds of articles that you wrote years ago and when those same articles appear on Google search engine results, the dates appear next to the description.  You might think that this is great, users searching the web should be able to see when an article originally published, but research shows that users discriminate against older content just because it is old

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How to show ads to only search engine visitors using Who Sees Ads 0

May24

Perennial Weblog Tools Collection community favorite Who Sees Ads can be used to show ads only to certain visitors – such as people who have arrived on your site from a search engine. It’s a useful way to improve your click-through-ratio, and please your regular readers by hiding ads from them. This is a quick introduction to using the plugin.

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Adding Scripts Properly to WordPress Part 1 – wp_enqueue_script 0

May7

Starting in WordPress 2.1 (if I remember correctly), the awesome folks at Automattic gave us the even awesomer function of wp_enqueue_script . Before that, it was every plugin or theme author for himself

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Adding Scripts Properly to WordPress Part 1 – wp_enqueue_script

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Passing Parameters as Variables vs Passing Parameters as An Array 0

Feb26

Improvisation is the name of the game, and we tend to do a lot of it with plugins and themes. In that process we tend to modify functions by adding more variables to incorporate changes in them. However, unlike most of the other languages, PHP allows users to set default values for variables passed to a method too.

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WordPress Plugin Developer Day, March 1st 0

Feb23

About a month ago I was augmenting a client site with some added functionality that, while technically out of scope, I was able to add quickly thanks to a plugin.

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WordPress Plugin Developer Day, March 1st

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