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How to Show Last.fm Tracks In Your Blog

Stuff I use,WordPress 9 January 2010 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

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How to Integrate WordPress with bbPress

Web Development,WordPress 28 August 2009 | 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Custom WordPress Pages and Canonical Links

Programming,Web Development,WordPress 17 August 2009 | 1 Comment

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.

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How to Extend Bulk Actions in WordPress

Programming,WordPress 15 August 2009 | 4 Comments

While developing WordBB, at a certain point I needed to extend the Users panel in the wp-admin area. I wanted to add a custom column with a dropdown menu for each user row. And so I did, but then I quickly realized that there’s no hook that allows to override the behaviour of the bulk [...]

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