database

Access Another Database in WordPress

April 4, 2011

When accessing the database in WordPress, you need to use the global variable $wpdb. This will take the constants you set in wp-config.php to connect to your database and retrieve…

post-curl

Post to a URL Using cURL and PHP

March 25, 2011

A client needed me to write a script that would collect information from their database and post it to a specific URL, just like it was being submitted by a…

corkboard

WordPress 3.1: Post Formats

March 4, 2011

I have been going through my themes and updating them to take advantage of the new post formats in WordPress 3.1. I thought it would be a good idea to…

roundimage

Circular Images with CSS3

February 3, 2011

I discovered how to create circular images using CSS3 the other day and thought it was totally awesome. The only drawback is that the image has to appear as a…

effects

Amazing Hover Effects with CSS3

January 13, 2011

I have received a lot of questions lately about hover effects and how you can execute them using only CSS. There was a time when you would have to use…

Admin Bar

WordPress 3.1: The New Admin Bar

January 4, 2011

I have been playing around with the latest release candidate for WordPress 3.1 and some of the new features are pretty cool. I really like the admin bar and I…