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Integration of Facebook / Wordpress Login Systems - Good or Bad?

by Matthew Smith · August 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

What if you could log into Wordpress using Facebook authentication? I’ve recently been inspired to do more Wordpress hacking thanks to the great discussions occurring at WordPress Bits, and this is one of the random thoughts that crossed my mind the other day.
I know that this is possible in some shape or form between the [...]

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Facebook’s Social Graph + Wordpress Blogs = World Domination?

by Matthew Smith · July 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Last night as I was showering, a brilliant idea dawned on me: What if I could combine Facebook’s social graph with my Wordpress blog? Integrated commenting, latests posts showing up on my feed, etc etc etc. I was all set to write this spiffy post outlining some new ideas and proposing a new plugin [...]

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Comment Spam is so Retarded

by Matthew Smith · June 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Have you ever watched a trapped fly making futile escape attempts, repeatedly crashing into a window, then fluttering around dazed before repeating the stunt? With the Akismet spam filter built into Wordpres, the comment spammers bear quite a resemblance to the aforementioned fly (man that sounded almost like a commercial…).
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Categories: Musings · Wordpress

Reflections on Blog Design

by Matthew Smith · June 25th, 2007 · No Comments

With the flurry of new activity and the fact that the current digivation design/layout is growing rather old (approaching the one year mark), I have been contemplating a redesign of the site. This isn’t a new idea - I’ve never been 100% happy with the current layout and have been brainstorming, sketching and creating mock-ups [...]

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Crash Course in PHP/WP/FB

by Matthew Smith · May 1st, 2007 · No Comments

I have decided it is time to dabble in a little PHP coding. Or get a little deeper than I have gone before. At any rate, I’ve decided it’s time for me to produce a Wordpress plugin. To accomplish this feat, I must learn a bit of PHP syntax, the idiosyncrasies of the Wordpress API, [...]

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reinvigorate me

by Matthew Smith · March 6th, 2007 · No Comments

For a while I’ve been using Google Analytics to keep abreast of my site statistics. I recently discovered (and registered with) reinvigorate. First, second, and third impression? I like it a lot! I’ll elaborate later.

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