Category: Programming
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Changing WordPress Plugin Load Order
The Problem You need a plugin to load before other plugins, but, by default, WordPress loads plugins alphabetically. Breakdown There are essentially two parts to this: Plugin Load Order The firing of any events related to that plugin Plugin Load Order The order plugins are loaded is dictated by an array stored in the wp_options…
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NPM update on Windows fails to recognize new version
I’ve been trying to play with ReactJS lately, but when it came time to do an npm install on my personal Windows machine (I had been working on my work’s Macbook Pro), I received a number of errors including: $ npm install npm WARN package.json project-name@1.0.0 No repository field. npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing…
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WordCamp Boston 2011
As one might surmise by the badge above, I attended WordCamp Boston this year. It was held right down the street at Boston University. I had only found out that a WordCamp was being held in Boston about a week and a half beforehand. When I saw where it would be, I leaped at the…
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Domain Mapping for WordPress with Multisite and CPanel
I spent all of my Friday night struggling to get Domain Mapping to work so I thought I would put together a little tutorial to help others since my setup seemed unique. If not unique, not well documented! Here’s what I have: Domain name pointed to the DNS servers of my host CPanel to manage…
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How to add a meta-box to an admin page in WordPress
I’ve been developing a plug-in for Powet.TV to automate some background stuff that we do regularly. One of the things I need to do is add a meta-box to the ‘edit post’ administration page. The below image is an example of a very simple meta-box. Its just a standard container for content in the administration…
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Ubiquity
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. Mozilla recently revealed an add-on for Firefox called Ubiquity. Basically it serves as a command line for your browser. The catch is that most of the commands are created by users and creating commands is very simple. This allows people to flex their creative muscle and take…
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Direction
This weekend I made a conscious decision about what I want to be doing. Now don’t get me wrong, I like what I’m doing right now, but I’m being pulled in multiple directions right now and I feel like I’m starting to come apart at the seams. I need some ‘synergy’. When I was a…
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Leave my jars out of this
This is some programming humor, so apologies to those I have already alienated.