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How to Add a RSS Feed to a Static Site

by Chip on February 20, 2011 (64 days ago) | No comments
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I’ll be straying a bit from WordPress to static PHP web site owners. Sometimes you need an RSS feed to provide your users if you have a static news site powered by PHP/MySQL. Sometimes you just need it in order to promote your site, or even to automatically post to Twitter or Facebook. What do you do if you need...

How To Extract Latest Posts From An External WordPress Blog

by Chip on December 6, 2009 (506 days ago) | No comments
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First of all you need the Simplepie library. You only need the simplepie.inc file included in the archive. My example extracts 5 items from a recipe blog: <div class="block"> <h2>Latest Culinary Recipes</h2> <div class="content"> <?php $feed = new SimplePie('http://www.wordpress-site.com/feed');?> <ul> <?php foreach ($feed->get_items(0, 5) as $item): ?> <li>&raquo; <a href="<?php print $item->get_permalink();?>"><?php print substr(($item->get_title()),0,23);?> [...]</a></li> <?php endforeach; ?> </ul> </div>...

Links Of The Week

by Chip on November 12, 2008 (895 days ago) | No comments
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What makes your day? A great web site solution discovered while boringly surfing the web. This week’s links are: thumbizy [http://www.thumbizy.com/] This web site offers an instant thumbnail generator for web pages with improved cache features. Currently in Beta state, it is a very promising solution. I might use it (after some thorough tests) for my new blog directory, Blog...

Response Times And Deadlines

by Chip on July 23, 2008 (1006 days ago) | No comments
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What does it take to be a successful blogger? Inspiration, imagination, short response times and strict deadlines. The latter are the most complicated goals to achieve. Readers like regular posting, they visit your blog to read new and fresh content. Provide that for them and they will be happy. This applies to readers visiting blogs from blogroll links, bookmarks, known...

Sunday Speedlinking

by Chip on May 25, 2008 (1066 days ago) | 6 comments
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While trying to update my sites’ user interfaces, I found some interesting links. SitePoint released a free e-book: It’s brimming with tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your next web design project. If you’ve ever been stuck for inspiration, have puzzled over just how to create a shiny aqua-style button, or wanted to create that...