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Wordpress.com Stats Stopped Working

I recently integrated a blog and documentation base into the Tribulant.com website and noticed after a few days that my Wordpress.com stats stopped working completely after switching the theme.

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Wordpress Shopping Cart Plugin

The Wordpress Shopping Cart plugin gives you the ability to quickly and seamlessly integrate an online shop with a fully functional shopping cart interface into any Wordpress website.

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Wordpress : Using jQuery library with your plugin or theme

When you develop a Wordpress plugin or theme, you might want to make use of the jQuery library included and distributed with the Wordpress package.

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Wordpress : Translate a Plugin

First off, you have to know that not all Wordpress plugins can be translated. The plugin developer(s) had to take the necessary steps such as using the Wordpress __() and _e() functions and load_plugin_textdomain() in order to parse the strings/text of the plugin through the localization system.

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WordPress : Using Javascript libraries with your plugin or theme

When you develop a Wordpress plugin or theme, you might want to make use of some of the Javascript libraries distributed with the Wordpress package such as Prototype, Scriptaculous and jQuery.

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Wordpress : get_pages

The Wordpress get_pages function works similar to the get_posts function which fetches posts from the database by criteria. The get_pages function takes different arguments and allows you to take control of parent and child pages as you execute the function.

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CakePHP : Form Radio Default Checked Value

With the CakePHP FormHelper, you can output a set or a list of radio button widgets.

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Wordpress : Safari

If you’ve been trying to write posts in the Wordpress TinyMCE editor using the Safari web browser, you might have noticed that breaklines are not correctly treated and that your posts end up being a single block of text rather than paragraphs as expected.

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CakePHP Crontab

Due to the way that CakePHP rewrites URL requests with its router, it might seem confusing to execute a Crontab to run a controller action. I will show you how to set up a cron dispatcher so that you can execute all your different controller action schedules on a single file and pass the controller [...]

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PHP : Cannot use a scalar value as an array

I was working on a Wordpress plugin today and came across the most disturbing PHP warning error which I have never seen before in all the time that I’ve worked with PHP. The warning error message was : Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array What caused this error was when I tried to append [...]

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