Published February 10, 2010 • 1 Comment • 2 Delicious Bookmarks

This tutorial shows you how to use the little known Google Static Maps feature to outline a specific boundary such a zip code or a city. It requires that you have your own Google Maps API. Above is the output image generated by the code below. This is the PHP code that is needed. The [...]

Published February 1, 2010 • 23 Comments • 7 Delicious Bookmarks

This is a list of my GetSimple 2.01+ plugins. Since I am the main developer of GetSimple, you can be assured that these plugins will always work with the latest version. Installation Instructions To install, you just place all the plugin’s files and folders directly into the /plugins/ folder of your GetSimple 2.01+ installation. Any [...]

Published January 18, 2010 • 0 Comments • 1 Delicious Bookmarks

I’m going to try and do something a little different for my business model here: I’m giving my WordPress expertise and service away for free. That’s right, FREE. There is a catch (there always is though, right?). This is only for newcomers to the internet world. The reason for this stipulation is I plan on [...]

Published December 26, 2009 • 5 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

When creating a new project of mine, I needed a way to protect certain page ids from being deleted because I was hard coding them into my WPMU themes. I was using the WPMU Blog Templates plugin, and after figuring out what IDs those new “pre-setup” pages were, I needed a way to protect them [...]

Published October 19, 2009 • 8 Comments • 26 Delicious Bookmarks

Introducing the Silk Companion II Icon Pack. While developing a new CKEditor skin for GetSimple, I had a need for some extra Silk icons developed by Mark James at FamFamFam. Out came 64 new silk-inspired icons. These icons are released under the same Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License as the originals. Damien Guard created the [...]

Published October 15, 2009 • 34 Comments • 23 Delicious Bookmarks

Last week I showed how to implement Jcrop into an application. In this tutorial – which also pulls from my experiences developing GetSimple – I implement the jQuery plugin Uploadify. In this tutorial, we create a simple file upload script that also displays an unordered list of the files in the upload directory. The list [...]

Published October 10, 2009 • 5 Comments • 12 Delicious Bookmarks

When creating the ‘image control panel’ for the latest version of GetSimple, I decided to integrate the wonderful Jcrop jQuery plugin into it. Amazingly, there are very few tutorials online that show the full extent of how to use Jcrop in real world situations. The only one I found that was of use was TalkInCode’s [...]

Published July 31, 2009 • 8 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

I haven’t posted here for a while because I’ve been working on a project called GetSimple. GetSimple is an XML based lite Content Management System. To go along with it’s best-in-class user interface, we have loaded it with features that every website needs, but with nothing it doesn’t. GetSimple is truly the simplest way to [...]