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Using Session Variables and Domain Aliases to Change the WordPress URL

By Chris Carvache | Published: March 12, 2011

Alright, so I ran into an interesting situation the other day. Here's the scenario... A client of mine needed a website redesign that basically combined two sites into one. She had two almost IDENTICAL sites that only differed slightly. Aside from a couple of different pages and some price changes on the courses she offered, the sites were the same. No need for two sites now is there? Of course not! The tricky part was that each site had a different URL. If a user entered the site from www.mysiteA.com they'd see one thing. If they entered the site from www.mysiteB.com they'd see another thing. The challenge was getting WordPress to rewrite the URLs based on the aforementioned criteria. After thinking about this and bugging SKC, here's what I came up with...
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Posted in PHP Development, Web Design & Development, Wordpress | Tagged php, session variables, wordpress, wp-config.php | 6 Comments

Automatic WordPress Updates with SVN

By Chris Carvache | Published: October 20, 2010

I just saw this article and wanted to let people know about it.

Anything in my opinion that saves time is a winner!

http://simpledream.net/2010/10/19/wordpress-auto-updates-svn/

Posted in Wordpress | Tagged svn, updates, wordpress | Leave a comment

Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin and Thematic Integration

By Chris Carvache | Published: October 17, 2010

I recently had the pleasure of installing the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. Its fully featured and absolutely epic. However, being that I use Thematic on every installation of WordPress, I noticed that the plugin didn't rewrite my titles! This was very disappointing and I considered moving back to my old SEO plugin. After digging and digging, I found out how to integrate the two!!

Posted in Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins | Tagged integration, wordpress, wordpress plugins, Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugin | 5 Comments

PODS Code Generator Plugin

By Chris Carvache | Published: October 14, 2010

I decided a couple of months ago to create a plugin that would integrate with the Pods plugin and generate code. I found myself doing the same thing over and over and over so, naturally I'll let the computer do all the work. I'm rounding the corner to a simple alpha version of the plugin. I'd like to see what everyone will think about this and what kind of features should be included in this. Right now I'm winging it and just adding features as necessary. Overall though, something like this will save people lots of time.

Check out the Pods C-Gen page.

Posted in PHP Development, PODS, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins | Tagged php development, pods, pods cms, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Thematic CMS Starter Theme v1.1

By Chris Carvache | Published: October 9, 2010

I've just finished the last touches on my Thematic CMS Starter Theme. Doing so also required that I change around the page structure of this site slightly. Now the child theme will have its own page instead of just a blog article.

Download a copy and check it out!

Download Thematic CMS Starter Theme v1.2

Posted in Internet, PHP Development, Portfolio, Web Design & Development, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes | Tagged php development, themes, web design, wordpress | Leave a comment

Prevent WordPress from Changing Your Code

By Chris Carvache | Published: October 8, 2010

WordPress has a REALLY annoying habit of altering the code on posts and pages. It adds P tags, it removes P tags. It will remove div's with no content in it. Just basically terrible things happening all the time. Thankfully there is FINALLY a way to get WordPress from 'cleaning-up' our code.

Posted in Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins | Tagged advanced features, web design, wordpress, wordpress plugins | 1 Comment

New Twitter Interface (and what’s to come)

By Chris Carvache | Published: October 5, 2010

I like the new Twitter interface change. Its sleek and sexy and uses AJAX in all the right places. I must admit too I felt a little dumb until now navigating around Twitter. It just wasn't easy to use. I mean it made sense but it wasn't intuitive. The new interface changes all of that and makes me feel like I can do more and see more in less time. Let's see what they've done.

Posted in Internet, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter | Tagged internet, new features, social media, social networking, twitter | Leave a comment

Thematic CMS Starter Theme v1.0

By Chris Carvache | Published: September 19, 2010

At work we use WordPress on 95% of our projects. And since we've discovered Thematic, we've used that theme on 100% of all our WordPress projects. When we use WordPress we use it as CMS engine. That being the case we need to use Thematic in the same fashion. We found ourselves doing the same thing over and over and over again so this weekend I decided to put that initial 10-20 minutes of setting up our clients child theme into a skeleton theme. Check it out! Hopefully this will save you some time too!

Posted in PHP Development, Portfolio, Web Design & Development, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes | Tagged thematic, thematic child theme, themes, web design, wordpress, wordpress themes | Leave a comment

My thoughts on Popsicles

By Chris Carvache | Published: July 23, 2010

So.... Britt and I were sitting around on a Friday night and decided that we wanted to know who wrote the ridiculous jokes on Popsicle sticks. After doing a few searches, we came up empty handed. However, the brilliant people that run the company (which are probably the joke writers as well) put a convenient contact form on their website. After a thought out letter, here is what we came up with:

Posted in Rants | Tagged britt, life, rants | 2 Comments

The MoMA

By Chris Carvache | Published: March 22, 2009

So me and Britt went to MoMA on Saturday. It was amazing to see all of the different types of art on display and entertain a day of introspective thought. Check out some of the pictures that I took using my new iPhone.

Posted in Life | Tagged art, britt, life, love, new york | Leave a comment

WordPress as a CMS: Dynamic Homepage

By Chris Carvache | Published: February 23, 2009

wordpress Welcome to this series of articles. While there are many articles written on this subject I have seen very few that focus on CMS theme creation techniques. Seems like most are just lists of CMS enabling plugins. While these are definitely important, they leave out a critical piece of the puzzle - So with that said let's get started...

Posted in Wordpress | Tagged dynamic homepage, tutorials, wordpress | 8 Comments