Brendan Nee

Tag Archives: wordpress

New site design

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January 17th, 2009

It was about time to clean up the crusty wordpress template powering bnee.com. It was one of the first templates for wordpress I created, and it has powered this website since 2006. I’ve kept track of all of the revisions of my website since 1997, you can see the whole progression on my old stuff [...]

List pages in wordpress into a PHP Array

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April 10th, 2008

Update: Thanks to Joost in the comments for suggesting the use of get_pages() to accomplish the same thing as what I posted below. He posted the example: $pages = get_pages(‘child_of’ => [[THE PARENT ID]], ’sort_order’ => ‘ASC’); foreach ($pages as $page) { // Do your thang } This seems much better than what I had [...]

World Trip 2008

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March 6th, 2008

I’m currently on a 5 month trip around the world with my girlfriend Lisa. I’ve finally found enough time to update this blog to point to my trip blog mostexcellentjourney.com. Its got a map of where we’ve been, notes from each place we’ve visited and photos. You can also get the RSS feed or get [...]

Automatic wordpress backups to Amazon S3

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October 25th, 2007

I use wordpress for many sites, and its really important for me to be able to automatically perform nightly backups of not just the database, but all files including uploads, themes, plugins and the basic wordpress files. I need the ability to revert any file back to a previous version. I found a variety of [...]

Integration = good

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September 23rd, 2007

I just got the wordbook plugin for wordpress. It should post my blog posts from bnee.com automatically to facebook. This combines two of my online presences. I also got the Twitter Widget for wordpress which shows my most recent twits on this blog. Facebook also recieves my most recent twits and posts them into my [...]

My New Orleans planning website

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October 17th, 2006

Jed and I have found, through attending meetings and conducting interviews, that most people, not surprisingly, are confused by the four planning processes which have occurred or are currently underway in New Orleans since hurricane Katrina.  Also, most people don’t know where they can go to get the final versions of the completed plans, and [...]