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Relative Dates in WordPress Templates

One of my favorite trends online is using relative dates like ’1 week ago’ or ’4 days ago’ instead of the standard June 11, 2008. I find it helpful in really getting a feel for the freshness of an entry or comment and it’s super easy to implement in WordPress.

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Ninedays Is Getting a Makeover

A quick little lesson about how to test a new theme in WordPress and perfect it for your use without making it live to the public. Best part is: you don’t have to install a new copy of WordPress!

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Smart Quotes in Code with WordPress and Markdown

Wordpress’ built in smart quote formatting was turning my code into un-copy and pastable stuff. Not good! I found a way to turn it off but I”m looking for a way to make it smart enough to avoid all my code.

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Block Tracking and Detect WordPress Login

An update to the function I use to block my tracking scripts, not it blocks tracking form my previews and forces preview query strings and whenever I am logged into the WordPress admin.

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PHP Serialize, What’s it Do? What’s it For?

An explanation of how the PHP serialize() and unserialize() functions can be helpful for you as far as storing a PHP array in a MySQL database and still begin able to attain it’s PHP variable qualities quickly upon retrieval.

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Clipboard Express WordPress Plugin

Clipboard Express is a multi-user clipboard plugin for WordPress. It allows each user a place to privately store notes, links code snippets and other information they need to have easy access to when logged into WordPress.

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Spring Cleaning (Blogger Style)

Had to clean up some of the business end of the site. It’s about damn time!

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WordPress 2.5 Upgrade but not Always Improved

My quick little review of the WordPress 2.5 overhaul. The good, the bad and the ugly.

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Searchers Choice I

I’ve seen how you end up here, now I’m going to help you find what you are looking for by custom tailoring my content to your search needs.

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MySQL Queries Made Easy With PHP Functions Library

Every web developer has a library of code that they reference frequently, if not constantly. I’m sharing with you one of my most useful snippets my MySQL helper class that helps me organize my queries and easily reference commonly used functions.

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