Search engines send traffic your way (unless you really fked things up) and knowing what people search to find you is both fun, cool and extremely important for your bucks. To be on top of things you must be aware of what searches point your way and identify potential within them. But http referrer string parsing is not really easy and it's always easier to use someone else's. I couldn't find a valid someone else's when I wrote mine so this is made in-house for you ... and me (well me ... then you).
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I look and, sometimes, giggle at the usernames people register on this blog. Some are easy to remember, some are ... funny ... in a way I fear they would forget them. So I decided to give a helping hand and allow people to login using email addresses. By default Wordpress won't allow you to login using the email address of your account.

But Uncle 5ub knows better and can imagine some people use the same email and password to register on all blogs (to remember easily) so ... I decided to help them. Now, on this blog, you can login using the EMail address you used to register your account. And, as Uncle 5ub is a nice guy ... here's the plugin for you to help your subscriber base ... remember.
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While doing one of my biweekly - monthly - not very often ego searches, I just noticed this post. Hahaha ... isn't that The Cutest Thing? Somebody saying something nice about you ... out of the blue. This is where this new category name came from and, if you write something about me (nice or nasty), I'll link it here and you'll get a reply ... nice or nasty.
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Don't have time to write / explain this whole post right now but this is a taste of it. Check this movie out. This one goes out to Sugarrae and other ocasional plugin writers. It has almost no comments attached. Observe possibilities and keep in touch as I'm writing the PDF manual ... in a day or two.

To cut things short this is an alternative plugin management system especially designed for plugins that are made to run only with certain themes. I needed a way to separate general use plugins from theme plugins as things were getting crowded and out of control ... and came up with this.

It's like ... the shit!

You design plugins the same way you do for general use plugins, 4 function names need to change. That's it. And you can share theme plugins with others, it's awesome... and the functions.php file will loose a lot of fat. You will be able to activate / deactivate you theme plugins, thing you could not do without actually editing stuff inside functions.php.

Theme plugin writers, theme developers ... get ready!

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All my best to you and your families. Happy Easter to you all!

May the Resurrection of Christ bring light into your hearts and lives ... and all the best.

Gtg ... Buh bye!

I have a script that tracks loads on posts and I see a real-time daily and overall post popularity + traffic statistics. All of a sudden the Missed Schedules Plugin experienced over 300 hits in a few minutes. I was like WTF? Stumbleupon probably. I checked and no new user registration. None after 400 hits. I could smeel something funny ... and it wasn't me.
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Private-Public Morpheus is a really useful plugin that allows you to create tiny pieces of code (content) within your posts that get replaced with one of two versions of Custom Fields. This plugin is like hitting the subscriber (leads) motherload. If your stuff is tempting enough people will subscribe.

The difference between this and other Subscribe To Gain Access scripts mavens use on their sites is that this one actually validates the email address. 90% of the Subscribe For Access boxes on mavens' sites give access regardless of the email address you enter. And that blows!
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Watch and learn. Jet Li, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and the likes would be put out of business if moves like this went mainstream. It's messed up and very violent. Grab some popcorn.

Looking forward to your feedback on this bloody scene.

Google offers some cool AJAX APIs that can do a bunch of things and today we cover language detection. When you ... let's say ... scrape ... text sometimes you could use a sentence of few words to verify the language. This is not easy viable to do on your own but Google offers a way. It's probably part of the Globalization Agenda Google's part of but I won't discuss this here. Just enjoy it!
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This is big and this post is a sticky. It will remind you the right way you need to handle code and plugins you get from this site. Simple handling and storing instructions.
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