Category: Notes (Page 41 of 50)

Notes on programming-related problems that I’ve encountered while working on various projects.

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September 11, 2012 / Tom

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One of the fun things about maintaining a blog and getting plugged into a community is that it affords opportunities both for yourself and others. In those opportunities, you also have the chance to experiment with a variety of options when it comes to monetizing your property.

For a couple of months now, I’ve been running advertisements on posts that are older than two weeks and that sit between the post content and the comment content. For example.

It’s proven relatively successful by my own internal metrics, so I wanted to continue the experiment. Today, I’m opening up more advertisements on the sidebar.

The short of it:

Sidebar 300×250: $20 / month for 30 days (which is currently filled)
2x Sidebar 125×125: $15 / month for 30 days

How I Built The Category Sticky Post and Tag Sticky Post WordPress Plugins

August 28, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Yesterday, I released two plugins for WordPress – Category Sticky Post and Tag Sticky Post – both of which serve the same purpose:

Allows authors to mark a post to be placed at the top of a specified archive. It’s sticky posts specifically for an archive.

The only difference is that one is specifically intended for category archives, the other with tag archives. And thus explains the clever names of each of the plugins.

As with my other plugins, I wanted to share my notes on what into building Category Sticky Post and Tag Sticky Post.

WordPress Pointers: What’s Required For Development?

August 16, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When I was in college, I had a year’s worth of classes where we did all of our homework assignments and projects in C.

I specifically remember hearing that if a person couldn’t grasp the concept of pointers and their associated functions, then they may not be best suited for programming. Although I think that understanding this is valuable, I’m not sure I fully agree. I digress.

Every now and then, I come across a new blog post that is breaking down pointers in C. They’re usually of the following flavor:

Pointers Made Easy
The 10 Step Guide To Understanding Pointers
Pointers: Let’s Get The Point!
…or something like that

Today, I came across another post doing the same thing. For what it’s worth, I think it’s well-written and I’m actually in favor of keeping this information current in the blogosphere.

But it did get me thinking about “WordPress pointers,” or what is WordPress’ equivalent of pointers?

Building Comment Images For WordPress

August 14, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When I shared some of my thoughts on building Single Post Message, I received some good feedback via Twitter and Email from others who enjoyed reading about the work that went into building the plugin.

Though my approach to this particular plugin is different than that of Single Post Message, I thought I’d do the same for this just to share a slightly different perspective.

So here’s how I went about building Comment Images for WordPress:

Building Single Post Message For WordPress

July 31, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

As a developer, one of the things that I love to do is read how others created their work. Sure, we’re all a different type of programmer but that doesn’t mean that I’m not interested in the work that others are doing.

In fact, I find that I often learn new things from seeing how other people face the technical challenges of their particular platform.

So, to that end, I thought I’d share the work that went into and that tools that I used to create Single Post Message.

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How I Built The Category Sticky Post and Tag Sticky Post WordPress Plugins

WordPress Pointers: What’s Required For Development?

Building Comment Images For WordPress

Building Single Post Message For WordPress

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