So you have a WordPress blog and you want to show your latest tracks from Last.fm in your sidebar? Then Last.wp is the plugin for you. It works through JavaScript (no server overhead each time you load a page) and it displays song names, artist names, album names and even album artwork.
This is by far the best Last.fm plugin for WordPress I’ve ever tried.
No, don’t get me wrong, I love Last.fm.
I’ve been a subscriber for years and I’m really happy with it — my profile reflects my music taste just fine and I always discover new stuff through the recommendation system. It has clean interface (unlike some other social sites out there), okay people (haven’t seen much trolls there) and the whole idea of scrobbling music building my profile is very appealing.
I really shouldn’t complain about it, but… okay, here’s my list of reasons why Last.fm sucks, at least a little bit.
Continue reading Some Reasons Why Last.fm Sucks…
A new WordBB version has just been released. You can get it on the official WordPress.org WordBB page. Here’s the changelog:
The most important feature is that you don’t need to hide your WP form anymore: you can just use it and it will post comments on MyBB directly from your WordPress blog without forcing your users to go on the forums (of course the user must be logged in). Some template tweaking is still required, as you may want to show the username of the currently logged in MyBB user near the comment form.
As usual, you can report bugs and glitches on this blog post. Happy merging!
Unfortunately Techloid.com has recently closed, so I’m mirroring their interview with vgmTorrents creator (i.e. me) here.
Ahh, Italy. Home to Ferrari, Valentino, the Renaissance, The Mafia, Pizza, Leonardo da Vinci, Enrico Fermi and many beautiful women!
But that’s not all. Italy is also home to Rosario, a game developer who lives and works there. Rosario is the creator of vgmTorrents, a private video game music tracker. After discovering his how-to on building a torrent tracker, we exchanged emails and sent him a bunch of questions on vgmTorrents, video game music, The Pirate Bay and the future of torrents and file-sharing:
Continue reading Interview with vgmTorrents Creator (mirror)…
I’m just wondering how many people out there are actually using WordBB on live websites and enjoying it. If you are one of those, please comment this post.
I noticed most of you have some problems with theme editing, which is okay since it requires some PHP/HTML skills. If this is your case, please give a look at the documentation and let me know if there’s something you still don’t get or are in trouble with. I can’t offer much support (too busy with work and other stuff) but I’d be glad to improve documentation and tutorials if there’s the need.
Also, if you’re looking for new features on WordBB, now it’s a good time to ask.
We’re almost at the end of year 2009, and the commenting system on YouTube still sucks like horseshit.
I followed its evolution throughout the years, but nothing has really improved. The worst thing of all this is that people don’t seem to realize it, and a lot of them use YouTube comments to make incredibly elaborated conversations (mostly flames) that go on even for days.
Anyway, here’s my list of reasons why commenting on YouTube sucks.
One of the most important parts of a torrent site is definitely the search engine. It is probably the first thing people are going to use, and a bug free search form will greatly improve user experience.
In this tutorial, we are going to implement a Browse section including torrent details columns, paging, and a form which will be used to filter results based on search queries.
Continue reading How to Create a Torrent Tracker: Part 4 – Search Engine…
While working on vgmTorrents, I decided that I was going to need a message board. I already had a working WordPress setup, and I needed a lightweight and fast piece of software, so I searched for a forum package with those requisites which could be easily integrated with WordPress. That’s how I discovered bbPress.
Methods for integration between WordPress and bbPress have changed through the years. Here I’m going to talk about the latest releases of both packages: WordPress 2.8.4 and bbPress “Bechet” 1.0.2 (of course these instructions may work with other versions as well).
WordPress is not just a blogging platform. With some work, you can turn it out into a full working CMS. The simplest and most powerful way to extend it is through Custom Pages. As an example, my torrent site vgmTorrents is based on WordPress and makes wide use of custom templates.
Continue reading Custom WordPress Pages and Canonical Links…
In this third part of the tutorial, our goal is to show some information about our torrents and users. We’ll go through a bunch of tips and snippets that any developer may find useful while developing a torrent site, such as some util functions to display relative times, friendly sizes and a tree with files and folders.
Continue reading How to Create a Torrent Tracker: Part 3 – Torrent and User Details…
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