Hiding information from the WordPress admin

So, while I was working on my Back End Instructions plugin yesterday, I was talking to my husband about the client I had built it for. As a quick notation, it’s a group of women who are of a certain age (no offense to anyone – I’m getting there myself!) and who do not like change. It’s taken me almost three years of pulling teeth to get things to where they are now. They want...

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Nice little Twitter Widget

So I was wanting to find a nice, simple method of using Twitter to pull in multiple accounts into a single feed. “Why would you want to do that,” you ask? Well, in my case, I was working on a site for a client who runs an organization. The organization itself has a Twitter feed for announcements and such, but its employees each had their own Twitter account as well. So they wanted to pull...

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Better Text Widget

Yes, I’ve been quiet for a few weeks. I’ve had some issues come up, and have been trying to knock them out of the park. I was just saying this morning, it amazes me how I’m on sabbatical, but I’m busier now than I was when I wasn’t! (OMG – that has to be some kind of grammatical nightmare right there.) Anyway, recently I’ve had a lot of people around me (not directly to me,...

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Filtering yourself from Google Analytics

With a combination of GeekTool and a little teensy bit o’ Google Analytics knowhow, you can ensure that GA isn’t including your visits to your own site as part of their reports. If you’re a developer (or someone who frequently visits their own site) this can come in really handy to assist in accurate reporting!

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