Category Archives: WordPress

Decentralized Social Network

By dancole | Published: May 14, 2010
I think the future of the social web lies in decentralized networks. BuddyPress has the opportunity to become a platform for a decentralized social network. Many of the tools required to pull this off already exist. This is how I would go about it. First of all, I would use WordPress as the underlining platform. [...]
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WordPress Stats Teaser 3

By dancole | Published: April 3, 2010
Since that data takes nearly a dozen hours to mine, I haven’t updated in a week or two. For this preview I didn’t fix the dates, so it counts each through each month since April 2004. I don’t think this graph shows WordPress Trac as getting worse, rather work comes in waves (each version) and [...]
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WordPress Stats Teaser 2

By dancole | Published: March 12, 2010
Before I start working on the complicated graphs, I thought I would do a few more simple ones. With these simple ones I can quickly check the accuracy of my software and make sure their are no mistakes in the database. In this case an extra character was kept in the majority, but not all, [...]
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How I Would Redo The WordPress Ideas Forum

By dancole | Published: March 10, 2010
If I could change three things about the WordPress Ideas Forum, this is what it might be at first glance. Voting System I would change the one through five start system to a +1/-1 system. It would show the total votes for and against the idea. The total number of votes made and the percentages [...]
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WordPress Stats Teaser

By dancole | Published: March 8, 2010
I’ve begun working on a Python program that does data-mining and graphing. It’s not yet completed, but I wanted to do a little teaser of things to come. Below is a bar graph of all of the comments made in WordPress Trac on the weekday they were made. Take from it was you wish. The [...]
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How do WordPress Hooks Work?

By dancole | Published: June 20, 2009
Why were WordPress hook created? Why do we need them? WordPress hooks solve a fundamental problem with dynamic function calls in PHP: How do you insert 3rd party functions with a static function call? But also, how do you use one single call to include an unknown number of functions? What are functions and function [...]
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Standard Theme Hook Names

By dancole | Published: May 19, 2009
To make customizing WordPress themes easier, theme developers have started to include hooks in their themes. They are often referred to as WordPress Hooks, because they use WordPress function to manage them and do the heavy work, but they aren’t bounded by any naming convention or locations in the WordPress Software or any of its [...]
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WordPess Theme Modifications

By dancole | Published: May 19, 2009
Earlier this year it was predicted that theme frameworks were going to be the big thing on the block and with that came child-themes. As with anything, there are different view points as to what a WordPress themes should be, what frameworks should do, and how to modify themes. This has lead to some interesting [...]
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