Turns out WordPress tries to make your posts look a little better by swapping out all normal quotes with smart quotes. That’s great for typography, but really bad when you’re posting source code like I often do on here. Trying to run pasted code with smart quotes in it will bring PHP down [...]
Found a great site over at StopForumSpam.com. Over the past few weeks I’ve been checking registrations on a couple of my forums against their database. What I’ve found is that most of the registrations have been spammers and they’ve gotten the axe. But after deleting 15-20 per day I wanted a little more [...]
On several WordPress projects I've needed to get the value of a custom field. Not too difficult using the get_post_meta command, but I wanted a little quicker way. So I now add this little function to the functions.php file on themes I'm working on.
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PHP:
function getMeta($key)
{
global $post;
return get_post_meta($post->ID, $key);
}
Say you've got a custom field [...]
This is one of those features I've been wanting to add to my photography forum for a while now, but I just got around to it this weekend.
With the addition of a database table, a new template file, a few source files, and changes to several others, my Simple Machines Forum now gives my users [...]
About a year ago I wrote a post on how to embed a YouTube video in a Simple Machines Forum post. Well, as it works out today I needed to embed a Google Video in a post so I went through and did almost the same process to get it to work.