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Escape html tags in xml files

HTML tags must be escaped! If you do not properly escape the < , > and " characters, flash driven xml files will not work. Here is a handy utility you can use to convert your html code to escaped text that can be used in xml files.

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Arras theme page comments

Ok so I ran into this while looking at my site after upgrading to wordpress version 2.9 and found that all my comments for pages disappeared but the post comments were fine, So I googled and found that arras theme has a conflict with wordpress v2.9. and this is the issue and wamo-bamo it worked!

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Top 20 Wordpress Plugins I’m featured #11

Thanks to Kerry Webster for the table and the download link to the pdf download! I'm featured in a Magazine! In issue 164 of Web Designer Magazine there is a feature article on WordPress plug-ins, "Electrify Your Blog: The Top 20 WordPress Plug-ins for the Next-gen Blogger". Matt Mullenweg

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Render update info on the plugins panel

Ok So I wanted to tell everyone about how when an upgrade for a plugin is needed to create a box under the update to show custom update options from the developer. So this is how that happens:

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Google MP3 Player

Alright so I found some cool stuff to use for the plugin that might be beneficial for everyone I will have to check on the legalities of the .swf player but I will see what I can do.

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Add Image Icons With Text

Ok When I was developing my plugin I found some useful information regarding icon embedding. I found this great script from here. What the software does is that makes a text that represents the icon mostly 16x16 icons. This is how to generate the base 64 text here. So here is the code that makes...

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My own RSS for music files from PHP

If you have read the previous post about the Website Music Player than you should be able to understand a little more about what is said in this post. I was searching for hours and hours the other day and found some snippets of code to generate my music RSS and wow I love IT! I used PHP and xml to...

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Website Music Player

I am finally able to sit down and tell you about the media player that I put on my website. As you can see to the right is a music player and the code that I used is valid XHTML. So here we go:

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Javascript Confirmation and variations

I wanted to make a pseudo login scheme for my page and came across some really cool stuff so take a look....

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wp_get_archives(‘type=alpha’)

Thanks to great find I was able to make some sweet adjustments to my site. With some modification to what JTK said on his website I used some really cool drop down boxes to achieve what I wanted on my site. I will give you the code for both...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31

Jan 31st

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Escape html tags in xml files

Jan 29th

Posted by Tom in HTML Code, Java, PHP and Wordpress

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HTML tags must be escaped!

If you do not properly escape the < , > and ” characters, flash driven xml files will not work. Here is a handy utility you can use to convert your html code to escaped text that can be used in xml files.

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High Point Home Inspections

Jan 29th

Posted by Tom in Interesting Articles

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Ok so my friend has his site up to do home inspections in the Maryland Area and I must say he is really good and reliable I had him do my home inspection on my house and boy was he thorough. He took me through the whole checklist and let me know what is what. More >

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Confused about Autoblogging

Jan 25th

Posted by Tom in Interesting Articles

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When I first started doing my web page I thought that the majority of my posts should be generated by me….. But then after going through my spam comments I found a link to a site that gathers all RSS feeds and generates content for you (unique content generator).

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24

Jan 24th

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Status of MP3 Player Plugin

Jan 22nd

Posted by Tom in Plugins

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Ok SO I have had many inquries about when the next version of the mp3 player is going to come out.. So I am here to set a few things straight:

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Arras theme page comments

Jan 17th

Posted by Tom in HTML Code, Java, PHP and Wordpress

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Ok so I ran into this while looking at my site after upgrading to wordpress version 2.9 and found that all my comments for pages disappeared but the post comments were fine, So I googled and found that arras theme has a conflict with wordpress v2.9. and this is the issue and wamo-bamo it worked!

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10

Jan 10th

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Top 20 Wordpress Plugins I’m featured #11

Jan 5th

Posted by Tom in HTML Code, Java, PHP and Wordpress

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Thanks to Kerry Webster for the table and the download link to the pdf download! I’m featured in a Magazine! In issue 164 of Web Designer Magazine there is a feature article on WordPress plug-ins, “Electrify Your Blog: The Top 20 WordPress Plug-ins for the Next-gen Blogger”. Matt Mullenweg