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4 months ago

in Design An Elegant Featured Content Slider for Wordpress on GoMediaZine
First off, thanks for this.

Second of all, you're making the WP part of this difficult. I wish designers spent time understanding the WP API. It would prevent breakage or security problems later on.

For custom fields, use get_post_meta(). It takes three arguments: $post_id, custom field key and a boolean detrermining if the value is returned as an array (default, false) or a string (true). Example:

$thumb = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'image', true );

Second of all, your javascript libraries. WP has built in dependency checkers and queues for handling the use of JS in themes. It also bundles jQuery, so please don't ask people to bundle it again. :) So you use wp_register_script() to bring in easing and coda, wp_enqueue_script() to make sure WP kicks out the javascript in the proper order and wp_print_scripts() to put them into a theme. Here is an example function:

function other_js()
{
wp_register_script('jquery-easing', bloginfo('template_directory) . '/scripts/jquery.easing.1.3.js', array('jquery'));
wp_register_script('jquery-coda-slide', bloginfo('template_directory) . '/scripts/coda-slider-condensed.js', array('jquery','jquery-easing'));
wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
wp_enqueue_script('jquery-easing');
wp_enqueue_script('jquery-coda-slide');
wp_print_scripts();
?>

$j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(document).ready( function(){
// Stuff
});

<?php
}


Aside from my nitpicking tho, nice tutorial. Thanks.

6 months ago

in Google Alert: Google Alerts Broken on The Lijit Blog
Google Blog Alerts as well. So probably something high level in their indexing engine as opposed to Alerts alone.

7 months ago

in Even Douchebags Are Thankful on Learn To Duck
Gobble gobble. Thanks for the shout out, douchebag. :)

7 months ago

in 2008/11/23/wordpressdirect/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Sounds like a great way for people to steal your content, as well as mine, Pete - then splog the hell out of the internet the way its been done for years.

Meh.

7 months ago

in Thinking About the Database of Things on Chris Brogan
Love ya, Chris, but I'm really tired of the conversation about the future of the web/Web 3.0/semantic web/what have you.

I think we need to be focused on surviving the economy first, then look to the next era.

8 months ago

in 2008/10/08/leadership-fear-technology-economy/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
I love it when I randomly click through to an article just to find out that it was based on something I wrote. Thanks for that and great article.

9 months ago

in 2008/09/24/blogworldexpo-recap/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Great to see you again, Adam, and thanks for the Lijit mention. Outbrain, too, is a fantastic little service.

11 months ago

in Lijit Throws Ads Onto My Site on Chris Brogan
Fluttering pixie! On it!

11 months ago

in Lijit Throws Ads Onto My Site on Chris Brogan
We certainly have been pushing towards having ads, but the platform isn't ready yet. Some switch probably got accidentally switched on your account and then corrected. I'll ask the guys about it in the morning.

Sorry, Chris.

11 months ago

in 2008/07/08/congress-censor-twitter-qik/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
You are not a liberal, Mark. Libertarian, yes. Liberal no.
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Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins Liberal didn't used to mean what it means today.

1 year ago

in WordPress-to-WordPress Import on Technosailor
Of course not, Joanne. The post says it's for WordPress 2.0 and lower and that WordPress 2.1 and higher (this includes WordPress 2.5) has it built in.

1 year ago

in Ten things you need to know about the upcoming Wordpress 2.6 on Colin Devroe
Hey Colin-

Thanks for the kind words. This release was more difficult than previous because I'm not at b5media anymore and I'm not as active as I used to be in WordPress development. But, I do the posts as a public service so I try to stay somewhat ear-to-the-ground.

Thanks again for the link.

1 year ago

in 2008/06/26/new-media-expo-2008-contest/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Within five years, video in mobile phones will be ubiquitous. Higher end phones will still provide realtime streaming, however it will be more than just Nokia.

With the Olympics/NBC using Silverlight for coverage this summer, Silverlight will gain prominence but will not unseat Adobe Flash on its own. Other technologies such as Apple's new product will combine to provide much more parity in the marketplace. The days of Flash embeds are numbered, though it will never disappear.

1 year ago

in Scoblechuk 08 Interviews: Part 2 on ScottStead.com
Wow... that was almost belligerence coming from me. :)

1 year ago

in What Type of Blogger Am I? on Learn To Duck
Tomorrow when I'm more coherent, I'll redo the quote and not mention Dave. I'll find another reason for you to be a PITAB :)

1 year ago

in What Type of Blogger Am I? on Learn To Duck
Dude, so sorry if you were offended. I tried to find the quote but couldn't (it was awhile ago, and I'm sure I got it wrong)... Sorry...
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micah I wasnt offended. Just dont want Dave thinking I am part of your
silliness... :0 Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

1 year ago

in BlogPotomac in Pictures ! on East Coast Blogging
I love Animoto. BlogPotomac rocked but the video made it seem way better. :) Thanks for putting it together.

You still don't get off the hook for Pain in the Ass Blogger though. You're queued up and will get featured. ;-)

1 year ago

in Live Blogging: Graphing Social Patterns 2008 on East Coast Blogging
I'll be there and blogging too - maybe live, maybe not. But I can't use the service that keeps the data in such a way that it can't be used *on my blog*. So I'll just do coveritlive or regular posts.
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RaviKarandeekar Oh! Yes, one should be able to use data on his blog. I agree with you.
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1 year ago

in drew olanoff dot com. - are you lijit? on drew
Hi Drew! Glad you like Lijit. Let me know if you need anything, since I'm working with them. :)

1 year ago

in Technosailor.com Birthday Bash on ScottStead.com
Thanks for the video, Scott. To be clear, all the guys are getting paid something - but we do need to raise the revenue so they can be paid better.

1 year ago

in Business Development in a Web 2.0 World on Learn To Duck
So... takeaways are... cold calling, blind pitching and addressing bloggers with Dear Site Owner. Right?

Do I get a raise now?

1 year ago

in From the Pipeline - 5.16.08 on Shooting at Bubbles
Thanks for the read, link and comment. The RSS feed is autodiscoverable. Plug the domain name into your reader, and you can subscribe. :)

1 year ago

in DevCamp Explores the Social Web on May 10 on Chris Brogan
OMG. Is Baltimore now on the map?! ;-)

1 year ago

in We Need Your Help on The Lijit Blog
Put them on the left. That's where the eye goes in LTR languages, which is most of them. Also, placing on the right leads the eye away from the content.
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