5 Why's

Author: dcramer

  • Hello world!

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    Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

  • Daemonizing the WordPress cron.

    Daemonizing the WordPress cron.

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    Over the years, I occasionally come across projects that require a cron job. Be it to send out scheduled emails, import data from external sources, or simply do a daily backup. As many would know, the best wordpress hosting service has a built in cron system. By default, this runs during each page load allowing…

  • FacetWP Manipulator

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    This is an unofficial add-on for FacetWP that allows you to manipulate it’s functionality through it’s various Filters and Actions. Over the last few months, I’ve been helping with support and add-on development. In these few months, I have noticed that many issues can simply be solved through hooking into a filter or action and…

  • Event Notifier 1.2

    Event Notifier 1.2

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    A couple of weeks back, I created a simple little plugin called Event Notifier. The purpose was to allow me to send an email whenever an action or filter is called. While it is functional and does simply that, I wanted a little bit more. So I have added Slack integration, a Dashboard widget; to…

  • Nesting Shortcodes in WordPress (shortcodes in shortcodes)

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    Shortcodes in WordPress that are available in CollectiveRay.com are extreamly usefull for applying formatting or embeding external content in your pages or posts. The only problem with them is the parser only does a single pass on the content, so if your shortcodes outputs a shortcode, or you have a shortcode nested within shortcodes, they…

  • CSS3 + Jquery Ring Progress bar

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    So I’ve been playing with CSS3. Particularly transitions and clipping. As a result, I made this animated ring progress bar. There is still a few alignment bugs and haven’t tested on all browsers, but in the big 3 (Chrome, FF and Safari) it looks pretty neat. All layout gradients and animations are CSS3 transitions. I…

  • DB-Toolkit Toggle Buttons sample

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    Been working on V1 of my WordPress plugin DB-Toolkit for a few months now. Some background, its a WordPress plugin that enables you to build interfaces into database tables, both existing and custom. Its currently in beta version but after working it so long, I decided that V1 required a rebuild using the knowledge I…

  • My Cart Summary widget

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    I have started toying with the idea of building a unique cart system for WordPress. Most that I have come across have custom post types for products, massive amounts of configurations and requires some coding integration. What I’m planning on doing is making it completely shortcode based. To you create a product by simple defining…

  • Uploader Widget

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    I have seen some designs of uploaders before. Having never really thought about why anyone would want one i passed them off as just a useless app. But then when I start working for myself, I realized that there is a need to be able to upload files to a server that will be useable…

  • Profile Card widget

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    While working on my event card, I thought it looked way better as a user profile widget, so heres the same concept as a profile  card WordPress widget