Category Archives: IT

These posts are not related to photography and have more to do with my day job, how boring…

WordPress Function to Style New or Updated Posts

By Andrew | Published: January 28, 2010
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of WordPress theme customization work, and a client wanted to add those nifty “new” or “updated” icons to his post. I wrote this simple function to handle it. Simply add this to your theme’s functions.php file, or if your theme doesn’t have a functions.php file, create one, and add the [...]
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First image thumbnail, using PhotoBucket

By Andrew | Published: January 18, 2010
I doubt there are a whole lot of people out there using WordPress like this, but, just in case, I thought I would put this up. I created this script to help out @e_anurag, he had a unique situation, a blog with all of the images hosted over at photobucket.com. He wanted to use a thumbnail [...]
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Tweeps KML/Stream

By Andrew | Published: January 15, 2010
So if you’ve been over to the “Stuff” page, you already know that I’ve started keeping up with the Tweeps that I’ve helped using a Google Earth map. I recently added a “tweetstream” of the people on the map. I thought of using a list to acquire the tweets, but I didn’t want to enter [...]
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First Byte Response Benchmarking

By Andrew | Published: December 28, 2009
I was helping @nicoalaryjr this week, trying to minimize his First Byte Response time for his WordPress site, sexlab.tv First Byte Response (FBR) is a metric used to describe the delay between when a users browser sends a request, and when the server fulfills the first byte of that request. It’s a great metric for [...]
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