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WordPress Activation Hook
We recently discovered an issue in our commercial plugins related to a change in the WordPress API. It turns out that since WordPress 3.1 was released the register_activation_hook() function is no...
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PHP Pretty Print XML
I have been working on MoneyPress : Amazon Edition to get it updated for the latest API release and bring it into the Charleston Software Associates stable of products. Along the way I found myself...
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Adding Custom Fields To The WordPress Category Interface
Adding custom field s to the WordPress Category interface can be tricky. Not because the concept is overly difficult, but the documentation on the related filters and actions that are built into...
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Netbeans, phpDoc, and WordPress
A posting from our private “Tech List”, a list I share with select tech geeks mostly from the days at Cyber Sprocket Labs. We tend to share high end tech tips that only geeks would find interesting....
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Geeking Out With Netbeans and PHPDoc
I’ve been playing with phpDoc and NetBeans a lot lately. I’ve found that having well documented code using the phpDocumentor 2 format makes for a much more efficient coding environment. For one...
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WordPress Add JavaScript to Specific Admin Page
Huh? ”wordpress add javascript to specific admin page”, what the heck is that? That is the first thing I “googled” when I discovered I was “doing it wrong” so I could learn how to do it right. As a...
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WordPress Boolean Options and JavaScript : Handle With Care
After chasing my tail for the past 5 days I finally uncovered the source of a bug in my code that was causing Store Locator Plus to not initialize properly on fresh installs. The culprit? How...
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jQuery Selected Text
While working on Store Locator Plus updates I found a need to get the text of the currently selected dropdown (<select> HTML tag) element. With jQuery employed in my WorcdPress plugins the...
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This weekend I have been processing a large 200,000 location data file for a Store Locator Plus customer. This is one of the larger files I have processed on my test system and it is the first file...
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PHP Switch Vs If Performance
When writing a complex application such as Store Locator Plus, you will often find multiple logic branches to handle a given task. There are two oft-used methods for processing the logic; the If-Else...
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