Announcing Tierra’s WordPress CMS Toolkit

[ 11.16.09 ] by Jamie

This past weekend, Dan Goldman, Exec. Director at WNET.ORG, and I presented at WordCamp NYC.   It was a great turnout with a lot of interesting questions about our work together.   During the presentation, we reviewed WNET.ORG’s business rationale for migrating all of its website publishing to the WordPress platform  Dan talked about how having a [...]

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Easy Guide to SSL Certs

[ 9.17.09 ] by Todd

Often, I find that I have to reference an old html document I created explaining how to set up SSL certs for https.  I thought I would convert those notes into something a bit more useful in an effort to help others out.  Usually, we don’t set up many SSL certs for web sites, so [...]

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Smart Category Ordering

[ 9.1.09 ] by Todd

Over the many deployments of WordPress and WordPress MU, we have found that our clients are constantly requesting the ability to sort content at the category level without editing the core of their templates. Today, we present our latest plugin titled, “Smart Category Ordering.” The plugin that we are releasing is a modified version of [...]

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New Plugin: Extend KSES

[ 8.24.09 ] by Todd

Over the many deployments of WordPress and WordPress MU, we have found that our clients are constantly requesting the ability to post HTML that the core of WordPress does not support. Mostly, it is HTML used for video embedding, but it can also be enhancements to existing HTML tags that are supported. Today, we present [...]

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Fifty sites. Ten months. One CMS.

[ 7.16.09 ] by Jamie

Tierra customized WordPress as a CMS to make Online Publishing
more Efficient.

During the past year Tierra and WNET.ORG (PBS Channel Thirteen in New York) collaborated on a groundbreaking project that cut WNET.ORG’s costs, streamlined their web publishing process and improved the user experience on many of their individual program sites. At the heart of our solution was WordPress Multi-User, an open source blogging platform.

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How Bad is IE8?

[ 7.2.09 ] by Todd

Watch what happens when an infomercial announcer and a design team pair up to discuss a bug fix to Internet Explorer 8.

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WPDB Profiling 1.1 Released

[ 7.1.09 ] by Todd

An all new version of Tierra’s WPDB Profiling Plugin for Wordpress has been released. The plugin, which we released January of 2009 displays all of the db queries at the very footer of the page showing any slow and potentially hazardous queries which can bring your db to a halt. The [...]

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PHP Tip: Inline StdClass Object Creation

[ 6.26.09 ] by Doug

One of my pet peeves is that PHP does not have syntax to support inline StdClass object creation. This tip shows you how.

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MySQL Snippet: Pick a Daily Featured Item Automatically

[ 6.24.09 ] by Doug

Here is how to add a featured item on your website that changes automatically each day. For this example let’s assume you have an e-commerce site with a MySQL table called “products” that has a column called stock_count which contains the count of each product in stock. We want to feature products in stock, changing daily and also changing automatically if during the day the product goes out of stock.

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Code Snippet: Preprocessing Moveable Type import files for WordPress

[ 6.17.09 ] by Doug

We’ve moved a couple of clients from older Moveable Type installations to Wordpress and each time Wordpress doesn’t handle the text paragraph formating from the Moveable Type import file. Here is a quick script we created to convert the BODY and EXTENDED BODY sections of the Moveable Type import file to HTML paragraph formatting.

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