I’ve seen a lot of conversations over the past two months regarding WordPress’built-in XML-RPC functionality. What most of you might not know is that you can write to, read, and administer a WordPress site from anywhere. There are iPhone applications for creating and revising content. There are desktop applications for moderating comments. There are aggregation services that can remotely publish a Twitter feed directly to your site. [Read more...]
Jul
16
Google Reader – Revisited
A few weeks ago, I published a tutorial regarding using the Google Reader API in PHP projects. Since that time, Google has changed the authentication portion of their API somewhat, so I need to revise my instructions just a bit. And some day in the future, I’ll even post a tutorial on how to use oAuth with the Google API as well. [Read more...]
Jun
17
WordPress 3.0
Just a quick note to let everyone know about the new release of WordPress 3.0. This represents the culmination of several months of development by over 200 developers. And, finally, one of my contributions made the cut and was contributed to core! I’ve been building on WordPress for 3 years now, but up ’til now all of my contributions have been obscure enough to be relegated to the world of plug-ins rather than core code. No longer. Now it’s official. Just take a look at my name amongst the 218 core developers on the WP announcement page!
It is a good day 
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May
21
Google Reader API – A Brief Tutorial
A few days ago, I asked a question on Stack Overflow regarding the Google Reader API. What I wanted to do was build a WordPress plug-in that would import my feeds from Google Reader into my dashboard. I’ve already pulled in my site statistics and Facebook, Google Reader is the last holdout keeping me from managing all of my online stuff in one spot. [Read more...]
