Recently I had to make a plugin for one of my message boards which would send an update to Twitter whenever an user posted a new calendar event. In this tutorial I’ll explain how I’ve done it. We will see how to shorten the event URL through bit.ly and post a new status on a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
In the previous part of this guide, we have seen how to run the XBTT tracker on our server and built a basic torrent download system with passkey support. Now we need a way to upload our torrents, so in this second part we’ll see how to create a fully working upload form featuring validation [...]
When ideas for my last project started popping out in my mind, I didn’t know much about how BitTorrent trackers work. I was like: “I’m sure there’s some cool well-written package designed to build a private tracker. I’m going to get it”. I thought I would find some well estabilished project, with readable code, support, [...]
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Twitter is a worldwide known micro-blogging platform. It allows to send 140-characters messages (so-called tweets) to a public timeline for other users to read, and each member can follow other users to be constantly updated about their notices. Twitter is also widely used as an aggregator as it’s easy to send tweets automatically through API [...]
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