I just discovered the Open Graph protocol that is offered to help website owners connect their sites to Facebook. I first discovered this because the site http://bookrenter.com had an awesome social icon that appears on FaceBook when you add any link from their site. I’ve figured out how to do this manually using meta in [...]
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I’ve been using a plugin called TDO Mini Forms a lot lately to make my WordPress sites interactive. This plugin lets visitors enter data which is then used to create a new entry or edit an existing one. The site I setup this way is at http://indilean.com so you can check it out if you’d [...]
Read the rest of this entry »How to run Ruby on Rails on a Mac
I’m running Mac OSX 10.6.4 and Ruby on Rails is already installed natively on the machine. I believe most if not all versions of the Mac OS include Rails. To locate it all you have to do is launch the Terminal which can be found in Applications > Utilities > Terminal using a finder window. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »How to add comments field to pages in WordPress
WordPress core is designed to allow the comments field on both pages and single posts but not every theme goes the distance and actually includes the code to make it happen… Thankfully it really isn’t that hard to add the code yourself. By adding this single line of code to your Page Template (page.php) it [...]
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