Category: Web Development

Blog posts about web design, development and general web topics.

Getting an RSS feed from Facebook

From my experience Facebook tends to provoke strong reactions, both positive or negative. As a developer who works with Facebook often in one way or another I’ve had lots of frustrating moments mainly due to poor/incorrect documentation. I spent a while trying to find the best way to export a [...]

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Social Media: Overview of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

Over the past few years I’ve watched the way the Internet has gradually changed. The leap from old school websites where all the content and features were served up 100% themselves is so far gone that I can barely remember it existing. Almost every website has some form of external [...]

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WordPress Posts Pagination

I recently had to find a way of forcing WordPress to display a post that had been paginated using the nextpage quicktag, to display different content on different dynamically generated pages. After some help from StackOverflow.com I found out that within The Loop you can access 2 particular variables that [...]

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Retrieve Facebook page status with no authenticating or permissions issues

If you’re just looking to read the ‘Stream’ or ‘Statuses’ of a Facebook fan page (not a normal Profile page) it can be done very easily. Due to all Fan Pages being public (their are 2 settings: published or unpublished), as long as the Fan page is published then you [...]

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JQuery: Open external links in new window

Finally got round to writing a small bit of code to automatically force anchor links to open in new windows if they are for different domains: $(document).ready(function() { var myDomain = ["www.ajgraham.com", "testing.ajgraham.com", "lifestream.ajgraham.com"]; //do NOT include the http:// pls! $(“a[href^='http://']“).each(function() { var slicedHref = $(this).attr(‘href’).slice(7); var slashPosition = slicedHref.indexOf(“/”); [...]

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