My company, CryoSitters, is developing a way to cryogenically freeze children for short periods of time to help parents that cannot find babysitters, with plans to eventually package our technology in affordable home kits.
via TechCrunch
Konstantin Kovshenin
WordPress Consultant, PHP & MySQL Junkie, Python Enthusiast
Announcing the Twitter Embed Plugin for WordPress
Hey there! I just released a brand new WordPress plugin called Twitter Embed. It supports several ways of embedding tweets into your WordPress posts and pages. The new (new-new) Twitter interface has introduced a new link on tweets called “Embed this Tweet” which allows embedding through HTML code, shortcode or link.
This plugin implements all of those ways. It will even reverse an embed HTML into a shortcode if the user doesn’t have privileges to post unfiltered HTML. It caches the API responses from Twitter.com for better performance and well, it’s as simple as it looks and sounds, doesn’t require any configuration and works out of the box, right after activation.
Download it from the WordPress.org Plugins Directory, give it a spin and let me know if it works for you. Cheers and Happy New Year!
Snippet! Change the year of all posts in a particular category to 2012 with a single SQL query (use with phpMyAdmin or the MySQL command line interface)
UPDATE wp_posts AS p JOIN wp_term_relationships AS tr ON tr.object_id = p.id JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON tt.term_taxonomy_id = tr.term_taxonomy_id JOIN wp_terms AS t ON tt.term_id = t.term_id SET p.post_date = REPLACE(p.post_date, YEAR(p.post_date), 2012) WHERE t.slug = 'my-category-slug' AND tt.taxonomy = 'category';
Obviously replace my-category-slug with the category you’d like to target and perform the same magic on the p.post_date_gmt field. Not entirely sure why you would use such a technique, but it was asked by Jim Edwards on Twitter.
If you’re an Android fan you’ll love this post on Mashable: Top 10 Best Android Games of 2011. Features both free and paid ones and some I haven’t even played yet, awesome!
For those of you who missed it, I got married last Wednesday :) You’re probably not used to seeing it, but the wedding ring goes on the right hand in Russia.
Foller.me is Back Online, and now Filled with WordPress Goodness!
Foller.me has got a new home, again! I’ve spent a few days working on a complete overhaul since Google App Engine’s pricing model has changed, which made the app consume over $5/week. It’s not big money but I thought I’d rather host the app next to my own blog for free ;)
The (yet another) new version of Foller.me is powered by WordPress, so if you’ve got friends who still think WordPress is for blogs only, share this with them. Instead of inventing a new user interface I went with Bootstrap and was able to prototype the whole thing really, really fast. I removed the followers geography part for now, I’ll need to find a better way to lay that out and make it actually function. Meanwhile you can enjoy two brand new sections.
New to Foller.me? Foller.me is a Twitter analytics application that gathers a bunch of interesting stuff from a public Twitter profile. Mike’s profile is a good place to start with ;)
Here’s a quick tip! Don’t apply the_content filters because some plugins (especially social share plugins) will use that filter to add something extra before or after your content, assuming it’s your main post or page content, which is fair. I’m also pretty sure that attachment posts can add things like images there too.
So if you’re using the_content filter somewhere in your footer for example, to allow automatic paragraphs and perhaps shortcodes, you’re better off with wpautop and do_shortcode. You can also create your own unique filter tag with apply_filters and then add the two functions to your new filter with add_filter.
Mika shares her thoughts and a bunch of screenshots on WordPress Sidebars as Menus, definitely a much more usable approach at widgets in WordPress. Plus, looks like this can solve the “theme switch” problem when sidebars usually just disappear and all your widgets settings are lost. Let’s hope this makes it into core sooner or later ;)
Updated my Sony Vaio VPCM12M1R netbook to Ubuntu 11.10. The update went quite smooth although wireless immediately stopped working. Well it didn’t quite work with Ubuntu 10.10 either but the RT3090 package fixed it last time. Luckily I didn’t remove the package and was lucky to get things working on 11.10 simply by:
sudo dpkg -i rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.3-0ubuntu0~ppa1_all.deb
And obviously rebooting the netbook. Everything’s back to normal now so yeah, yet another successful Ubuntu upgrade. Loving the changes to Unity in 11.10!
Sweet! WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 2 is here and as Andrew Nacin pointed out they’re “really close to a final release.” To find out what’s new in 3.3, visit the About page after installing the release candidate. Good luck and make sure your themes and plugins throw no errors!