Category Archives: IT
First image thumbnail, using PhotoBucket
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 [...]
Posted in IT Tagged function, Image Cataloguing, Image Management, photobucket, Thumbnail, WordPress 1 Comment
Tweeps KML/Stream
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 [...]
Posted in IT Tagged Add new tag, Google Earth, Keyhole Markup Language, PHP, RSS, SimplePie, Twitter, Web development, WordPress 1 Comment
First Byte Response Benchmarking
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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WordPress Function to Style New or Updated Posts