WordPress Quicky: Add User Profile Fields

If you want add fields to the wordpress user profile then two hooks are important for you.
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WordPress Quicky: Use the [Shortcode] API

Another quicktipp for wordpress plugin developers. With the shortcode API you can easily provide additional commands for wordpress authors …

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WordPress Quicky: Exclude Categories

Another quicktipp for wordpress theme developers.

If you want to exclude one or more categories from a page (startpage, category-page), you can call the query_posts function with negative category-ids …

<?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-1,-2,-3'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    <!-- POST -->
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

WordPress Quicky: Register Sidebar Widget with 3.0

Another quicktipp for wordpress plugin developers. Registering a sidebar widget can end with a fatal error if you use the code from the wordpress documentation …

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Use Google Closure Compiler Local with PHP

In “Google Closure Compiler with PHP” i described how you can use the compiler online via http. Now i will show how you do it local on your server with the java command line application …

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Inside Analytics Tracking (2) – Traffic Quellen Who is Who

Google Analytics kennt vier Traffic Quellen: Suchmaschine, Direkt, Verweisende Seite (Referral Site) und Kampagne … aber welche Benutzer fallen wo rein?

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Inside Analytics Tracking (1) – Cookiemonster

Google Analytics ist ein wahres Monster wenns um die Anzahl der Cookies geht, aber wozu sind alle diese Cookies nötig und was kann man eigentlich selber für Einstellungen vornehmen …

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PHP WebSocket Server – The Handshake

WebSockets are the new cool boys in town, but the specs are in a very early state and so it’s hard to keep up to date with the different browser implementations …

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HTML5 WebSockets Example

HTML5 WebSockets makes it possible to open a persistent connection to a server within a web-browser via javascript.

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Firefox 4.0 Beta: HTML5, WebM und Websockets

Die erste Beta-Version von Firefox 4.0 bringt einige neue geile Technologien für Web-Entwickler.  Via WebM und HTML5 können jetzt HD-Videos ohne zusätzliches Plugin im Browser angezeigt werden. Der neue HTML5 Parser wurde schneller gemacht und kann jetzt Inline-SVG und MathML.

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