reCAPTCHA all of a sudden stopped validating

Posted by scuderias | Lessons Learned | Friday 30 October 2009 2:53 am

Did you ever come across the situation of implementing reCAPTCHA, everything tested and working okay but after two days while doing more developments on the site  it just does not want to validate anything anymore?
Where could the trap be?
Well, I was implementing reCAPTCHA on one of the sites I am involved, specifically on the WordPress [...]

Tuning Twitter Tools for WordPress to Work With Multilingual Blogs using qTranslate

Posted by LionV | Lessons Learned | Sunday 29 March 2009 6:18 pm

Twitter Tools by Alex King is an excellent WordPress plugin for interacting between your blog and twitter. It has many features like putting twitter updates on your blog, or updating (twitting) twitter every time you post something. And this is the feature that interests me and was causing problems with qTranslate.
If you are using qTranslate [...]

Gaining Control of your Blog’s Login: Hacking the WordPress wp-login for a Custom Login Page

Posted by LionV | Lessons Learned | Sunday 22 March 2009 5:00 am

It does not feel really yours unless you take complete control of it. And this is exactly the case of a blog. The front end might look yours, but going one step behind the scenes and it only resembles to be yours. By one step behind I mean the login page. Yes, there are WordPress [...]

How to associate your WordPress Blog’s Local Search with Google Adsense Custom Search

Posted by LionV | Lessons Learned | Saturday 7 March 2009 1:22 pm

Some people like to have one, some people two, and some people two-in-one.
Another task I was faced with recently was to associate the WordPress local search of my blog with Google Adsense Custom Search. That is if you search in the local search and has no hits it will automatically submit the search query to [...]

How to add a Google Adsense Custom Search to your WordPress Blog

Posted by LionV | Lessons Learned | Saturday 7 March 2009 12:38 pm

Recently I was faced with the task of adding a Google Adsense Custom Search to he blogs I am administering. I have searched around and there are quite a few explanations. However, in my opinion, they all have the steps wrong as the direct you to create your Google Adsense Custom Search first and then [...]

Undefined variable in compat.php of WordPress: error displaying page titles in dashboard

Posted by LionV | Lessons Learned | Friday 27 February 2009 7:56 pm

I recently updated to WordPress 2.7.1. On one of the blogs I am administering I am using the qTranslate plugin for multilanguage support. Everything is working right but yesterday I went to edit one of the pages only to figure out that the Titles were not displayed and a warning was displayed above the page [...]

Displaying the whole content of the last post and summary for the rest on WordPress

Posted by LionV | Lessons Learned | Friday 27 February 2009 7:14 pm

Recently I was struggling how to display the posts on the main page of one of the blogs I am administrating. Displaying the whole content of posts was making the main page too long, displaying only the summary was making the main page kind of dull as it was missing the pictures.
The problem:
Display the whole [...]

Setting up the WordPress shortcode handler fuction to return echoed strings

Posted by LionV | Lessons Learned | Thursday 26 February 2009 1:29 pm

Recently I started developing and enhanced version of an existing WordPress plugin. One of my tasks was to add a shortcode function.
The problem: The plugin output was appearing at the top of the page/post, and not where I was placing the shortcode. My main plugin function was echoing quite a few lines. The WordPress shortcode [...]