As promised last week, this week we are looking at fetching RSS feeds with Magpie RSS.
Magpie is an PHP based RSS feed parser; I.E. It fetches RSS feeds to display in other places, which gives it many uses.
Unknown to many, wordpress has the magpie RSS parser built in, this article will teach you how to use it, and also how to fetch and show someones del.icio.us bookmarks!
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In this first edition of “Wordpress development techniques” I will be talking about one of the most useful classes available for use in wordpress: wpdb.
The wpdb class (WordPress DataBase class) is based on the ezSQL class, and handles database connections and queries.
Why use it? You can make all sorts of custom queries, and pull information from the wordpress database, including posts! Read on for more information on this useful class…
A few days ago Jonathan Wold, a new friend of mine, tagged me to write about my success as a designer. Well, I’ve dragged myself away from my client work to write about it, even though in my eyes I’m not greatly successful, yet.
O, and as an added bonus you get to see old pictures of me and download some games I made years ago! lol
I’ve added a new version of the popular curvy corners plugin. This version removes the problem of extra padding within boxes (by using negative margins), works in IE7 and Safari, and loads faster. The downside is that the packed version has a larger filesize; to reduce the /packer/ overhead I did not encode it, but you can repack if you want a smaller file.
The official page is here and the demo page is here. Enjoy!
