The Blip.tv Admin Menu plugin for WordPress allows you to upload, edit and delete videos from your Blip.tv account right from the Admin panel of your WordPress site. Get the plugin: WordPress Plugin Site Download RWSDevBlip Directly This plugin was derived from the blipPHP library originally written by Almog Baku and updated by me. While updating the library I noticed the definite lack of any plugins relating to the Blip.tv API and felt this could be useful for someone. Current Features: Import existing Blip.tv video data from your account into your WordPress site Upload new videos to Blip.tv directly from...
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Thesis 1.3.8 – Review
Prior to today, we had been using “Pagelines” for developing some of our wordpress themes including this site… Today we installed Thesis from diythemes.com. I must admit, what took me a day and a half to create in Pagelines took me 2 hours using Thesis. Thesis is highly customizable, feature rich and easy to use. Now the RWSDev Team is not afraid to hack away at the code and css of a wordpress site, but I was surprised at how very little of that I had to do in order to recreate our theme using Thesis. Some of the features...
Continue reading...Facebook App and User Management Class – fbAppClass – for Facebook PHP SDK 3.1.1
The RWS Dev Team has put together an app and user management class to make creating an app on facebook using their PHP SDK 3.1.1 a world easier! When the RWSDev Team started working with the facebook PHP SDK 3.1.1 we ran into a few problems and once we got those ironed out we decided we should create an app class that would assist others to hopefully avoid a majority of those problems. What this class does: app.inc – stores your basic configuration info for your facebook app like the App Id, App Secret, Base URL and your App Base...
Continue reading...Plesk Panel – Suspend Account with notification web page – SOLVED
I ran into the problem of having to suspend an a customers account and then noticed that after suspension it showed the default new site page from server doc root. Next I noticed there was no way to set a default page for suspended domains so I wrote a script that can be run and will edit the .htaccess file for the root htdoc of the server and add rewrite rules to point to suspended.htm. This will also query the PSA DB and create rewrite rules for any domain aliases for that domain as well. Just run this script after...
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I was pointed to a thread by parallels as a solution for “plesk not recognizing my upgrade to php53 from the IUS Repository (php53u)” … this was NOT helpful at all so I’m posting my workaround and temporary fix until parallels can come up with something better. Their solution was to DOWNGRADE php on my production server which left a large number of my customers with broken sites! However – here is the workaround for installing/upgrading php to the IUS Repository version php53u: *Prerequisite: make sure you have enable php53 support and upgraded php to 5.3 in plesk 1) remove...
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