Category Archives: Web Development Tutorials

Despite Twitter recently retiring their API v1 a few months ago, there seems to be a distinct lack of literature on the topic. Whilst browsing the internet I repeatedly see a “latest tweets” box, or similar with no data feed inside it. The cause, they are still using the old the API. Anyway, to help people migrate over to the new API and display a twitter feed correctly and robustly, I decided to write this tutorial. See below. Stage 1...

Below is a short explanation that will enable you to add a ShareThis button widget to your WordPress blog posts. The snippet below will work both on individual post pages and multi-post pages like categories, archives or custom page templates. There are many plugins out there that will help you achieve this task but if you are anything like me, you like to self-contain your code as much as possible. It should be noted at this stage that this snippet...

I was recently browsing the web looking for an easily reproducible php remember me code snippet. By this I meant I wanted to be able to auto fill the text input on my login form if a user had checked a remember me checkbox. I was already using cookies to keep a user logged in, but wanted to add this feature to improve usability. This is a common feature on the web and I was surprised by the lack of...

There are many tasks in PHP that seem hard to achieve, but are actually very simple to accomplish using the correct code. There has long been the need to store the current date in a database. Whether it be to show the date a blog post was created, or adding a calendar entry. I have seen some solutions where the user manually enters the current date as part of the input form. There is a much more elegant, and more...

This tutorial will describe the extremely simple process of setting up a jQuery content switcher. There are many jQuery carousel scripts out there that enable you as a developer to create wonderful animations between elements to add some extra flair to your site, but what if you simply wanted to switch the content that was in a particular container without the need for a plugin? I will show you how this can be achieved with just a few lines of...