WordPress and Google Analytics

The Problem: I, like many others, manage WordPress sites that I monitor with Google Analytics–which is an awesome tool.  Sometimes, however, I like to visit my site and see how content looks live.  Because I do a bunch of work on the go, it isn’t...

How To: Mod the Twitter Widget with PHP

If you are using the standard Twitter widget on your website, you may want to use only one set of code because the styling is included inline. The issue here comes in when you need different widths or number of tweets, depending on the widget’s location (home page versus sidebar, for example).

Localhost for WordPress Testing

When developing with PHP, for WordPress or other uses, it is important to test your code prior to uploading them to your site.  This is to make sure that everything functions like you want it. Viewing .php files require slightly more setup than simply opening them...

Why Learn PHP?

A while ago, I wrote a post that had some people going huh, why’d you put PHP there when there are so many other languages you could have chosen? Admittedly, I did overlook some potential candidates–Ruby on Rails comes to mind. Also, like any programming...