Omar Abo-Namous » php

Contact Form for wordpress

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:39:32 +0000

For a client of mine, i’ve been using the PEAR-package HTML_QuickForm which is ‘superseded’ by now and isn’t compatible to php 5.2, whereas the followup package HTML_Quickform2 is still in alpha state. Since the client switched his server and that … Continue reading →

WordPress 2.8 announced and installed

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:39:51 +0000

The Wordpress version running on this blog is now "2.8-beta1-11380". After the first beta has been announced, i switched the svn installation to trunk again (after having it to branches/2.7) and updated the blog.

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Pingbacks and Trackbacks work again in WordPress

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:44:21 +0000

For quite some time, i had a problem getting pingbacks and trackbacks working. Receiving them wasn't a problem, but i couldn't send any. It seems, i'm not alone and no where were any answers to be found..

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Gengo and WordPress 2.7

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:01:11 +0000

I had an issue with gengo getting into an endless redirect loop once i activate the option "Gengo should append language codes to permalinks automatically.". I thought this was an issue of gengo-compatibility and deactivated the option making many links unusable. Now i just found this thread over at wordpress.org where joshreisner suggests simply saving the permalink structure again.

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Using nanocms to create a simple site with news

admin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:45:31 +0000

For a client of mine i've been looking for a way to host his very simple and small site. The site (which can be found here in its old outfit) consists of some rather static pages, two formulas, which have to be sent by email and a news section that is split into two categories (events and tours). Both news categories land in a collective archive after a specific date.

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Project: Mosaics in the United Arab Emirates

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:27:26 +0000

I’ve nearly finished the website emirates-mosaic.ae, which enables the customers searching for mosaic art to buy those created by this very artist. The request was to create a gallery as the main theme of the site and to build some … Continue reading →

Erste Version von wp-stattraq veröffentlicht

admin — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:52:48 +0000

Eben gerade habe ich die erste neue Version von wp-stattraq auf wordpress.org freigegeben. Ich habe das Plugin nur insoweit verändert, als ich es für wordpress 2.6 lauffähig gemacht habe und dabei die Ausgabe des Plugins in die normale Administrationsobefläche integriert habe.

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First version of wp-stattraq is released

admin — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:52:44 +0000

Some seconds ago i've uploaded the first new version of wp-stattraq to the wordpress plugin directory. I've changed the plugin to be incooperated into the administration panel and work with version 2.6 of wordpress (which it didn't up until now).

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