Wordpress archive
Articles on the Expression Engine blogging system.
Connecting to an external database from within a Wordpress post
For the article I wrote recently on web design galleries, I compiled a table of the galleries in a MySQL database. To be able to display the table and the associated charts and other statistics that went with it, I needed to be able to connect to this external database from within Wordpress.
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Catching content copiers with Wordpress
I recently had one of the articles from this site copied and posted on someone else’s site (a practice sometimes also known as site scraping). But thanks to a couple of Wordpress’ in-built features and also a handy plugin, I soon found about it.
Content negotiation
Content-Negotiation is a mechanism defined in the HTTP specification that makes possible to serve different “versions” of a document (or more generally of a resource) at the same URL, so that user agents can choose which version fit their capacities the best. W3C
User-defined accesskeys
This site enables users to define their own accesskeys. The PHP script that does the work comes courtesy of Dan Champion at Blether. Dan’s article on how to use the script is fairly straight-foward except that when combined with a Wordpress site, a couple of modifications are required.
