I was testing an Authorize.net recurring billing application that I was building yesterday and kept getting a “Bad Request (27) – Invalid Card Holder” error. I searched the internet to find out what the cardholder name should be on an Authorize.net test account and couldn’t find anything. I just started trying some things and found […]
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In my last post, I showed you how I created a custom post type for my quote generator. I wanted to add a couple of custom fields to my custom post type. I wanted to add a custom field for the quote author which I will call ‘By’ and a custom field for the source
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I’m working on a random quote generator for one of my sites. I decided to create a custom post type called ‘quote’. I wanted to create a custom taxonomy for quote categories and another for quote tags since I want these categories and tags to be separate from the other categories and tags on the
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Recently I needed to find a user on my WordPress site with a specific member number that had been assigned at registration. This member number was a custom user meta field that I had created. I wanted to find all the user’s information based on that member number. I tried using the WordPress ‘get_users’ function
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As a programmer, I generally don’t like off-the-shelf, one-size-fits-all software. It’s a lot like one-size-fits-all clothing. Yes, it will fit all sizes, but, by nature, it doesn’t fit any size well. Any custom built website – or software of any kind – will always be a better choice because it can be customized and optimized
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DISCLAIMER: I WILL NEVER USE FIRST DATA AGAIN AND WILL TRY TO DISCOURAGE MY CLIENTS. THEIR CHARGES ARE RIDICULOUS. THEY MAY BE BETTER FOR RETAIL, BUT, IN MY EXPERIENCE WITH WEB INTEGRATION, THEY ARE WAY EXPENSIVE. USE STRIPE.COM INSTEAD. READ MORE HERE I have a client with a First Data merchant account. She has also
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I’ve had several discussions with clients lately about logos. I am not a graphic artist by any stretch of the imagination and I don’t often create logos (I do have interns and subcontractors who can do that for me), but there are a few things I’ve picked up over the years about logos and what
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I want my clients to be able to check for domain names and register them from my site. As a member of the Reseller Club I can do just that… once I figure out their API. They do have some documentation on the site, but it took quite a bit of work to figure out
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There are many PHP frameworks out there such as Symfony, Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, and many more. I don’t know that any framework is better in all things than any other framework. I think it’s probably a matter of familiarity and preference. My favorite as of this writing is Symfony. You can read about my experience
I was trying to use the jQuery plugin fancybox today. I followed all the instructions but kept getting this error:
*.support not defined
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