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Intergrating bbPress with WordPress and Making it Work

Posted on February 4, 2010  |  Category: Tutorials

As it stands right now, bbPress and WordPress are two separate pieces of software. Last month, it was announced that a bbPress plugin might end up replacing the stand alone version but that is still in development. You can read about it on WordCast. When the plugin comes out it will trump the need to do the following but for now, integrating an existing bbPress forum into a WordPress install is not as easy as you would think.

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Simple Voting for WordPress with PHP and jQuery

Posted on December 18, 2009  |  Category: Tutorials

I needed to create a simple way for site members to vote on a post and the few scripts I found didn’t really work how I needed them to. So I decided to whip something together myself. I developed a pretty basic script using PHP and jQuery to allow members who are signed in to click on a simple link to add their vote to a post.

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Snowblind v1.1.2
WordPress Theme

Posted on November 5, 2009  |  Category: Downloads

I just updated Snowblind and version 1.1.2 is now available on WordPress.org. It’s now 100% translation ready and has a few more features to make it easier to set up.

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Add Time to the Date Function in PHP

Posted on April 22, 2009  |  Category: Tutorials

I just needed to do this for a client’s site to set an expiration date for a user and I thought it might be something that other programmers might like to know how to do. If you need to take today’s date and add time to it it is pretty simple. There is a PHP function called date() and another called strtotime(). You need to use both to make this happen.

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Show Your Search Query in WordPress

Posted on March 20, 2009  |  Category: Tutorials

Wouldn’t you like to be able to display the actual search term entered by your user on the search results’ page? Good thing there is a very simple way in WordPress to do that with the_search_query function.

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