QuickPay & WP e-Commerce Integration

I’m happy to announce the completion of my latest WordPress customization project, an integration of QuickPay.dk’s Internet Payment Gateway system into the WordPress plugin, WP e-Commerce. I was approached through a contact if I could make a module for WordPress for QuickPay.dk, and several hours later, the project has been completed. I have added a bit of usability I felt the plugin...

How To Optimize myVideoPoster Processing

myVideoPoster is a very flexible WordPress Plugin, which you can use to automatically post embedded videos to your WordPress blog. Some users have reported the plugin takes a long time to run, especially with the “check for embedding” option has been turned on. To check if embedding is disabled, it is necessary to download the individual video page, and check the code to see if the...

Thesis Theme How To: Integrate SEO Booster Pro

I have just bought a license for Thesis (aff) today, and I wanted to share with you how to implement the really cool PHP custom hooks from SEO Booster PRO to your Thesis theme. One of the many benefits of Thesis is how easy it is to customize without ever touching the theme files. If you want to add SEO Booster PROs custom PHP function to your Thesis Theme, it is really easy. Go to the...

How To Create Tags For WordPress Posts

Welcome to another quick article in the WordPress Development Tips Series. During the development of my plugins I discover quite a few tips and tricks along the way. In this series I try to share the most important or the ones I feel lack the most documentation. This tip involves how to create a tag via PHP and assign it to a post. The code is quite simple, and uses just a single WordPress...

How To Check if the cURL PHP extension is loaded

There is not a lot of information about checking if a particular extension is loaded and the few tidbits there are on the internet, are very impractical, so I decided to dig a bit deeper and I came up with my own solution. The following function returns TRUE if it can find the cURL extension installed, and FALSE if it fails to find it. // ### Checks for presence of the cURL extension. function...