Christopher Shennan's Blog

I have been working on these 2 projects on and off for a couple of weeks and although it has taken me much longer to package up and write the documentation for these 2 projects, I have finally managed to get them finished to a reasonable state and both projects are available for download.

lineTwit - A PHP Twitter Reader – Original developed at my work (Line Digital) and is based on myTwit by Ralph Slooten

wpTwit -  A WordPress Plugin build using lineTwit to show how it can be incorporated into proper projects.  This site is live example of this plugin in action as I am using wpTwit for the twitter feed in the sidebar.

Many thanks to both Line Digital and Ralph Slooten for allowing me to make these available for everyone to use.

Enjoy!

Over the last few weeks I have been working on my first wordpress plugin and I am quickly getting to grips with how it all pieces together but I ran into a problem with a rather basic piece of functionality that pretty much rendered the plugin useless until I figured out the issue.

The section I was working on was a form submission (within the wordpress administation) which saved the form values into the database and then redirected the user upon success to another page (using wp_redirect) but this resulted in a blank content pane.

This seems very strange to me as it showed some of the page contents i.e. the header and left navigation but the content pane was completely blank.
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Having  just set up WordPress on here this morning one additional thing I wanted to do which was to put a redirect in place to redirect my sub domain on wordpress.org (which is http://chrisshennan.wordpress.com) to point to my own domain name.

My main reason for doing this was that when I comment on some of my friends blogs (mainly those on blogspot) I have posted the comment using my WordPress profile which only allows me to enter my wordpress username which then links to username.wordpress.com.  As a result I would have to be adding my new blogs entries to 2 blogs which would be a waste of time and bad in terms or SEO (duplicated content resulting in a lower search engine listings).

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