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posted February 24th, 2010

One of the most apparent aspects of both my professional and personal life is that I am always learning. As my friends and family can tell you, I constantly have my nose in something and am very eager to share what I just learned. As I have written about what I have learned here, I have realized that I have been holding back on something important: how do I choose what I want to learn next.

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Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by John Hoff on March 15th, 2010

That error message originates from the menu.php page inside wp-admin. I believe it is happening because the user that is trying to update the

Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by Ryan Paul Young on March 15th, 2010

Hey John, I installed the plugin with NO issues, THANKS so much. BUT... when I choose an image from the media gallery, and Save Changes, I

Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by John Hoff on February 24th, 2010

Adam, The goal of writing to the plugin was to demonstrate how to use the built-in image gallery as a selection tool. I select an

Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by Adam on February 24th, 2010

This is great. How do I work this into the front end though? I'm trying to create a portfolio image gallery on the homepage of the blog. Got

Wordpress Custom Field Search Plugin

by Wayne Smallman on February 18th, 2010

John, thanks for the code, man. This has been a huge help.

Tag: sql

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Custom Field Searching Wordpress Using Sphinx

posted May 20th, 2009 by John Hoff

In my previous post on implementing a custom field search in Wordpress, I showed how to modify the internal SQL LIKE search that is the default search engine of Wordpress. There are other search engines that Wordpress can make use of, most notably Sphinx Search.

Tags: php, sphinx, sql, wordpress

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SQLAlchemy and memcached

posted March 11th, 2009 by John Hoff

I think it is safe to say that my personal goal of learning and using Python this winter has been a huge success! I have now found myself hard at work on a large Python-based project in my spare time and investigating issues that I haven't been able to track down much documentation on. How to use Memcached in conjunction with SQLAlchemy was one of those issues.

Tags: memcached, Python, sql, SQLAlchemy

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Wordpress Custom Field Search Plugin

posted January 27th, 2009 by John Hoff

Some friends of mine that have started offering custom Wordpress designed sites and consulting hit me up a couple of weeks ago for some help. They had a site for a client that was utilizing custom fields to provide some additional CMS-like functionality to Wordpress and had hit a snag. Their custom fields were not being searched.

Tags: php, sql, wordpress