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Three years ago I was making a few thousand dollars a month off my websites and then there was a crash. My web based income dropped to almost nothing. The affiliate programs that I belong to changed their terms, and even if the economy were to get better, I would not make as much as [...]

Someone was trying to hack my Recent Google Searches Widget to work outside of WordPress. This could be used as an include in any web page and when users arrive via google, bing, or yahoo they would see a search that would let them search the site using the same keywords.  Since the search engines [...]

I got a furry of hits (about 2,000) from Hacker News which is a good place to put your techy stuff. You get hits, but almost all of them use adblocker. They don’t bookmark, and they don’t follow links. Hacker News only works if your site is sticky to nerds and geeks. I have yet [...]

There’s a list of the top 1,000 plugin authors at http://www.daveligthart.com. Every week or so he updates the list and I have been dripping down on the list every time. I may be reaching my point of natural buoyancy. Each week I advance a little less. I may never break 500. This is because I [...]

I started a new site in order to make money with Facebook and Twitter. I know, it’s dumb, but you can never tell what will work and what won’t.

Mu plugin that collapses pages and categories has been approved and is now in the repository. Collapse Page and Category Plugin The heart is a script that makes collapsing menus dead simple. You just give the UL that you would like to have collapsed the class of ‘children’. It will then hide that UL and [...]

I wrote some code for a project that strips out the formatting from RTF files, leaving the text behind. Since I found nothing on the nets that worked, I had to roll my own. This may not work with all RTF files as I have a limited test set. I post the code at PHP [...]

I have a page describing how to make a web page, any web page, into a wordpress theme in about 5 minutes. I have bypassed the way themes are normally created and put it all in one page with four include files. Everything is cut and paste so that someone with limited PHP can make [...]

All of a sudden my plug-in that deters images scarfing has been getting lots of downloads. I searched, looking for a clue, but I can’t find any references to the plug-in on Google. This is one of my JavaScript plug-ins. My Open In New Window Plug-in is the most popular one of these, but I [...]

I put up Astrology Terms, Bread Recipes, Cancer Terms, Chocloate Recipes, and Frank Sinatra Lyrics for downloading. This is quite a bit of content. I still have the following archives. If you are interested I can email them to you. Some are large and have thousands of entries. This is more than enough content to [...]