Social Media Blog

How to display Post Thumbnails in WordPress feeds [CODE]

When year ago I was working on new functions for e-art.lv, I decide to use Post Thumbnails In WordPress Feeds. There were several reasons why we (e-art.lv) started to use that "feature". We saw that some of RSS aggregators are usign these features from other RSS and Atom feeds. We wanted them too... Here is my solution.

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Websites optimization: Every page is a Landing page

Giving tips is easy, follow them is much more harder. By saying that "every page is a landing page" I mean, that website visitor don't care on which page he is, that page is visitor's first impression about Your page.

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From MedaBox.lv/en to SimpleMediaCode.com

Today we changed our blog address from mediabox.lv/en/ to blog.simplemediacode.com for blog and SimpleMediaCode.com which will be our brand new domain for international clients.

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WordPress theme feature vs. WordPress plugin. What is best choice?

As WordPress developer I came to point where I have to decide: make some functions as WordPress theme features or make them more optional and theme independent as WordPress plugins. Both options have pros and cons.

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Easy way to set up an FaceBook.com fan page

With growing popularity of Faceboo.com and their 300 million active users, clients start to ask me for simple solutions on how to integrate their products or services in FaceBook.com fan pages. In this post I will give some useful links to some applications, how to integrate Your/clients products and services in FaceBook.com fan pages.

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Removing WWW from URI (or domain) with PHP

Few weeks ago I wrote how to remove WWW from domain with .htaccess. In some cases or hosting plans it's not possible to view or use .htaccess file (e.g. some low cost or free hosting providers). Solution is PHP code which redirects all www requests to non www page.

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Final cut for my first WordPress plugin

More than one month ago I published my first WordPress plugin "Draugiem.lv/lapas fan page" for social network in Latvia draugiem.lv (FRYPE.COM). And now I want to make final cut with version 1.0 (0.1.5) and upgrade it.

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Remove WWW from domain with .htaccess

Another good thing about removing double content is to remove or add www prefix to your domain. Remove WWW from domain # This will remove www from your domain RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mediabox\.lv$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mediabox.lv/$1 [R=301,L] This is what I now use for all my domains – domain without www prefix. Add WWW to [...]

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Writing first public WordPress Plugin (widget)

Today was first release of "Draugiem.lv/lapas Fan page" (for non-Latvian draugiem.lv best known as Frype.com) WordPress sidebar widget for FRYPE business pages.

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How to add Google Buzz button to WordPress and Blogger

Already some days are working Google Buzz. I made short search on Google for possibility to add Google Buzz button to Blogger template. As I didn't find it on first page, I decide to rewrite some of previous Blogspot template code, which I made earlier. And for WordPress blogs too...

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