Something I found useful while brushing up on my PHP MVC knowledge was this book by Packt Publishing. It’s called CodeIgniter 1.7 and takes you through the fundamental concepts of MVC within the CodeIgniter framework including a chapter on basic CRUD functions.

I was working on some jQuery today in a WordPress theme I’m working on, and I wanted to simulate a keyboard input so that I could force a jQuery plugin to work in the way I wanted it to without hacking its core.  Here’s how you do it

Seeing as how I’m big on getting behind your sports team, I saw an initiative by White Wall Web (Disclaimer: I used to work for them) to get the internet into the World Cup Feva by adding what they call a FlagTag to your site.  I think it’s fantastic, see my FlagTag on the right of the site.  But what most people (who cant code) don’t know how to do is add the code to their website.  So I thought, let’s use my WordPress experience and slap together a plugin.  No code editing, just a simple download and upload, activate the plugin, and choose your flag! It’s that easy.

Download it here or here.

I was working on a project last week and needed to use the categories in WordPress to seperate content, but also needed to provide an RSS Feed of only one of the 2 categories. So I did a quick Google – because I figured someone else has probably done this before – and sure enough I found this :

So I’ve been tinkering with JQuery this weekend and have built a function for WordPress to display a JQuery accordion of a certain number of posts from a certain category – Title and Excerpt details.
It also can be used across both pages and posts using a shortcode.
Update – I have built a WordPress plugin to run this function and shortcode, and have created its own page here for download and instructions.

Just thought I’d add a quick post just to keep the content rolling while try make my domain mapping with WordPress Mu article a little easier to read. So I thought I’d tell you about some of the stuff I’ve been working on…