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- PHP for Beginners: Building Your First Simple CMS – CSS-Tricks.com brings you a nice introduction to building a simple object-oriented CMS with PHP.
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BlogBuzz January 10, 2009
Jan 10, 2009 by Matt | Posted in BlogBuzz No Comments
What You Need to Know About Blocking Ads
Jan 9Thaya Kareeson from Omninoggin recently pointed me in the direction of a site called AdBlock.org, a site that seems to have a similar view of of ad blockers as my own. Adblocking software is a response to abusive activity by advertisers. It’s the continuation…
WordPress Theme of the Month: Desk Space
Jan 8This month’s featured WordPress theme is “Desk Space” by Dirty Blue Media.
PHP Tip: Replace URLs With Links
Jan 6I was trawling through the PHP function reference the other day, looking for some information on regular expressions, when I happened across this gem: $text = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]", "<a href=\"\\0\" rel=\"nofollow\">\\0</a>", $text); It may look like gibberish at first, but if you look at it…
Reminder: Update Your Copyright Notice
Jan 5It’s 2009 now, which means it’s time to update an important part of your website that is easy to overlook: The copyright notice in your footer. If you haven’t already updated the line of text, which should read something along the lines of “©2009…
WordPress 2.7 Favorites Menu Manager Plugin
Jan 4I would like to formally announce my latest WordPress plugin today. Behold Favorites Menu Manager. When WordPress 2.7 launched, a small menu was added to the upper-right corner of the Admin. This menu was referred to as a Favorite Actions menu. The menu, by…
BlogBuzz January 3, 2009
Jan 3WP125 Patch 1.2.1 Released
Jan 2If you have already updated to WP125 version 1.2.0, which was released just a few days ago, you would be strongly advised to upgrade to the the new 1.2.1 release, which fixes a critical bug. If you are running 1.2.0, ads will not be…
Best of 2008
Jan 1Happy new year! It’s 2009 now, and we’re heading into what will hopefully be another great year of Webmaster-Source. 2008 was a big year for Webmaster-Source. The site grew significantly, started making some decent money, and I released two WordPress plugins and started using…
Design Your Way to More Blog Comments
Jan 7StylizedWeb has an interesting post up on increasing the number of comments on your posts. It covers a lot of ground, and has some tips worth trying. Engaging Readers, Design Your Way to More Blog Comments First the post explains why people comment, and…