‘WordPress Discussions’ Category

Passing Parameters as Variables vs Passing Parameters as An Array

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February 25th, 2010
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Improvisation is the name of the game, and we tend to do a lot of it with plugins and themes. In that process we tend to modify functions by adding more variables to incorporate changes in them. However, unlike most of the other languages, PHP allows users to set default values for variables passed to a method too.

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Exploring the GPL, Viable Models and Business Risk

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February 14th, 2010
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Should You Pay Up and Shut Up?

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February 13th, 2010
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WordPress as a platform has invented numerous businesses, including both themes and plugins, however, I am neither a pro or against both of these, because, I use themes which I develop myself most of the times to run my site.

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Should Plugin Authors Add Links To Your Site Without Giving An Option To Disable It?

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February 13th, 2010
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Quite recently, I was trying out a few new plugins which came across as interesting to me. As usual, I ran up my test install and installed the plugins, everything worked fine, except for one thing. Couple of plugins from the lot added linkbacks to their own site, that is fine, however, they did not provide me with an option to disable those links.

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Do You Automatically Close Comments on Old Posts?

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January 21st, 2010
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Comments are the lifeblood of any website. It keeps pumping some interesting views and discussions into a post. However, I have seen several blogs which close comments for posts which are older than say a month or two.

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What Was Your First Reaction on Using WordPress?

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January 15th, 2010
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I started using WordPress more than 3 years ago and have been using it since version 1.5. Prior to using WordPress, I was using Joomla. Joomla is a great platform no doubt, but it was a bit complicated for my liking.

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Do You Verify Short URLs in Comments Website Fields?

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January 13th, 2010
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Comments are always welcomed and appreciated. However, comments are also one of the biggest causes of spam on websites. If you do not have a proper comment moderation and protection system, your site will be flooded with links to spam, phishing and other unwanted sites.

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A Simple Mistake Could Cause You Priceless Headaches

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January 9th, 2010
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As a developer it is always easy to overlook minor things, some of them may not cause you much headaches, but some of them could eventually build up to give you nightmares because they are hard to spot.

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Trend For 2010 – Paying For Plugins

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December 23rd, 2009
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