Category: php

Changing the World S3 image generator
Today on my personal blog I wrote a blog post about how I’m going to change the world. At the bottom of the post it contains this image:

Which when clicked links to http://changetheworld.broo.ke (offline).

Today I wanted to talk a bit about how that sub-domain image generator works, because frankly I think it’s pretty cool.

All the images are being stored on Amazon S3 storage meaning that image display should be faster and better than my local host. I’m also using a resize script to generate image sizes based on the users need.

So basically it works like this:
- The user types in the image size they would like and hits submit
- We check to see if the size is within a given range (between 100 and 1000 and divisible by 10) and if so we proceed
- Next, we check if the image is already on the server, If so we grab it, if not we create it.
- If the image is created it is done using an image resize script then uploaded to amazon S3
- We display a link to the new image and a link to it in the read-only text box.
Check it out and let me know what you think.

If anyone has any comments or would like the code please contact me or leave a comment below
Brooke.

July 3, 2013

Life, php

0
Simple Portfolio Widget

Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.

Hi, I just wrote a simple portfolio widget and thought I would share. This code uses Justin Tadlock’s get_the_image plugin and custom widget code to display the featured image based on tag or post type.
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Brooke.

June 18, 2012

php, WordPress

0
Simple SOPA Blackout Plugin

Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.

I just wrote a simple plugin to blackout your site on January 18th for the SOPA Blackout day. Check it out on the project page.

Brooke.

January 14, 2012

php, WordPress, wp-plugins

2
Random Greeting in PHP

Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.

I was searching for a php list of greetings but couldn’t find one so I made my own. Thought this may be helpful to someone else looking for a list. Here is how to show a random greeting in php. Much like the flickr welcome page.
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Brooke.

August 30, 2011

php

2
MobileESP for WP 1.2 Updated

Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.

[UPDATE] this plugin has been updated to 1.2.1 to add support for removing the cookie. See the comments of this post for more info.

I just wanted to write a quick post to let you know that MobileESP for WordPress version 1.2 has been released. This release contains the latest version of the MobileESP library as well as a bugfix for the full site url link bug which was requiring clicking on the link twice. Get the latest version from the WordPress.org Plugin repo or update the plugin from your dashboard.

Brooke.

August 9, 2011

php, wp-plugins

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April Fools Plugin: Cornify for WordPress Released

Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.

In case you missed it I decided to do a small April Fools prank this year. I came across cornify.com and liked the way it worked. I thought it would be funny to have the unicorns pop up if the user was inactive on the site for longer than a few seconds. So I got to hacking the script and came up with a simple plugin Cornify for WordPress. This is a simple WordPress plugin for the self hosted WordPress blog that will show unicorns to the inactive user. There isn’t a control panel but if you read the readme you do have a few options for modifying the script.

Without further ado here is a screenshot:

Get the plugin today!

Brooke.

April 3, 2011

php, wp-plugins

april fools, plugin, rainbows, unicorns

0
MobileESP for WP Updated

Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.

I just released version 1.1 of MobileESP for WordPress this should fix any problems people were having with iPhone and Android devices not forwarding correctly. I also updated the MobileESP class and minified the source which made it half the size.

As always, if you have any problems please report them in the forums tagging them with at least ‘mobileesp-for-wordpress’

Brooke.

April 2, 2011

php, wp-plugins

mobileesp, plugins, update, wordpress

0
WPBook 2.0.10 BETA release

Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.

UPDATE 12/11/10: As John noted in the comments below the most recent beta can be found at the WPBook download page at WordPress. Get the latest copy of 2.0.10 here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpbook/download/

Today I am uploading a new beta version of WPBook. This version needs some testing before being forked into core so if you download it and have any problems let me know.

You can download the version here

New in this Features version:

Facebook Avatars – if you have the gravtar setting on and the visiter leaves a comment from Facebook (or leaves their Facebook profile url in the url field) you’ll see their Facebook Profile picture instead of their default gravtar. This is true for both your parent blog (outside of Facebook) and the app view (inside of Facebook)

New Admin Layout – The WP-Dashboard admin page has been completely redesigned and organized into three categories: required, Streaming and Facebook App View. The “advanced settings” have been removed and integrated into the appropriate place in the settings. Tooltips have also been removed. Hopefully this layout is easier to use. Thanks to Ozh’s YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter for the inspiration and some of the code that powers the admin interface and the Tango Project for the expand/collapse icons.

Bug Fixes:

The default of “post to facebook” is now set to true

The link in set_permissons=true now links to WPbook.net instead of the old instructions folder in your install.

Other Notes:

Folder Cleanup, the client and cron file includes have been moved to there own “include” folder

The Facebook Tab view has been moved to it’s own folder inside the wpbook/theme folder

Please let me know any feedback you may have on this build.

Brooke.

October 10, 2010

php, wp-plugins, WPBook

1
YOURL’s WordPress Plugin Update for 3.0

Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.

UPDATE: Thanks to Ozh’s Comments I have updated the post below. It sounds like the plugin will be updated for WP 3.0. However, it will then stop working with WP 2.9 and below. I am leaving this page up for those of you who wish to use an older version of WP but would still recommend updating to a newer release when one becomes available.

I’ve been using YOURLS to host my own shortlink site for quite some time. I recently found the YOURL’s WordPress to Twitter Plugin. This plugin is great however the, get_shortlink function added to WP 3.0 as well as the latest version of WordPress.com Stats plugin caused some small usability issues. Such as the “Get Shortlink” button showing up twice.

My solution? Make it so when you click on the “Get Shortlink” button it gets the YOURLS shorlink instead of the wp.me one. This required the following changes that I’m hoping OZH will adopt or modify.
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Brooke.

May 10, 2010

php, wp-plugins

3
WordPress Theme Exists and WP_THEME_DIR?

This is more of an open question than a fantastic discovery. One thing we want to do with WPBook is allow custom theme modification that won’t be overwritten by plugin upgrades. I’ve been looking into ways to check to see if a theme exists. If it does uses it if not use the default plugin theme from the plugin directory.

I know how to do a php check for “if file_exists” however, checking for all theme files seems a bit silly. What I’m wondering is if there is a way to check if the theme exists with at least a folder and index.php file.

Another thing I’ve been wondering, there is a WP_PLUGIN_DIR function but not WP_THEME_DIR function is there a workaround for this?

Any help on this issue would be great!

Brooke.

April 8, 2010

php, wp-plugins

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