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Quick n’ Dirty Offline Status

Monday, February 4th, 2008 - Read the rest »

This is the last post in my, Quick N Dirty plugins series and so I have decided to do something a little, although not a lot, more involved. This plugin will let you display a notification page that your blog is offline.
I’m sure you’ve seen by now the excellent pre-launch theme called LaunchPad by Ian [...]

Quick n’ Dirty Category Redirection

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 - Read the rest »

This is post number nine in my series, Quick N Dirty plugins. This plugin is perhaps the simplest of all and is designed to illustrate the basic method of interceding in the template selection process by showing how you can use a categories to link between blogs that you own.
Before getting into the plugin itself [...]

Quick n’ Dirty Spam Protection

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 - Read the rest »

This is the eighth of my Quick N Dirty plugin posts and today the plugin has no hooks at all. The plugin I am explaining today helps to prevent automated spam and is something I have been using on my blog since I started it.
So far, every plugin I have explained has had either an [...]

Quick n’ Dirty Comment Stats

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 - Read the rest »

This is plugin number 7 in my Quick N Dirty plugin series and things are now starting to get a little more complex, and a little more interesting. In this post I will demonstrate an admin page for displaying stats.
Creating an admin page is actually a two stage process involving one hook and one function. [...]

 

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