Category: Developers Diary

These are notes I leave to myself about code and implementation.

Developers Diary

Fighting SPAM Referals

Today I added code to my .htaccess file to block some well-known spammy referal services that keep showing up in my Google analytics. SEMALT is the main company, but now they are spinning off into …

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Contact Form 7 – Send Invisible Copy

Sometimes it is appropriate to review the clients incoming form requests from their website. An example would be to accurately measure the amount of viable contacts the website produced for the client, you would need …

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Customizing the Editor

It feels good to me when I take the time to customize my client’s editor. It is difficult to edit web pages as an end user when the styles of the website are not applied …

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Social Media Buttons Code

Keeping for my toolbox: /* Social media icons by Kieran Hunter contact me for any questions kieranhunter.co.uk */ <div> <a href=”#”><span>Facebook</span></a> <a href=”#”><span>Twitter</span></a> <a href=”#”><span>Google+</span></a> <a href=”#”><span>Github</span></a> <a href=”#”><span>Dribble</span></a> <a href=”#”><span>CodePen</span></a> </div> body { background-color:#d34c65; …

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Testing remote publishing.

Testing remote publishing. Installed the WordPress app on my Android.  Now I can publish a post write from my phone, and I am going to try using the voice recognition to “type” my text.  I …

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Knockout – Javascript Framework

I decided to learn Knockout as my first Javascript framework because the Pluralsight tutorial I started said Knockout has a less learning curve (than Ember).  Since this is my first Javascript framework, I decided Knockout …

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WordPress Snips to Keep for Later

When using WordPress custom PAGE template, to pull POSTS of a certain category, and then get those posts to paginate: (first pull the normal page data, then add a 2nd query to pull the posts, …

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Javascript Rapid Prototype Tools – learn it.

Where do I start to master javascript rapid prototype tools?  Which one do I want to learn? Node.js Backbone.js Angular Ember Here’s a tutorial, of sorts, for Backbone.js. Author claims it will have me up …

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Google Analytics API: unknown redirect URL

Some success! I now figured out  the openauth 2.0 working with the Google Analtyics API.  I spent some time trying to figure out why I had error message “unknown redirect URL”.  After finally finding the …