When your blog starts becoming popular, people will visit, read and talk about it and your blog will have comments pingbacks, and trackbacks. While everybody knows what is a comment, I am going to explain pingbacks and trackbacks. From WordPress Codex Glossary: Pingback lets you notify the author of an article if you link to [...]

Today I tested the beta plugin I introduced you in the Creating some hype… post and it worked fine. It successfully imported all games and now I am looking for a good theme to finetune to transform the blog into an arcade site (do you know any good theme?) Before asking you to test the [...]

… just to let you know what I am doing… … the complete portal manager should be released as a WP plugin before september ends. The beta version maybe this week. If you have suggestion or ideas, let me know…

In Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress – step 4, we saw how to post a game into a wp database, now we’ll see how to retrieve game information. It’s time to parse the json feed. Where can I find the feed? At this link http://www.mochiads.com/feeds/games/xxx/all/all?format=json you will find the json feed. Just [...]

One of the best (or worst) things about programming is once you think you’ve almost done it, another problem pops up. In part 3 I told you the hardest part was done, but I guess I was wrong. This is an almost-working php script to include one game into WP in the same way as [...]

If you look at the sidebar of my blog you will see AdSense for Search replaced the standard WP search. First, I am going to explain why to do it, then how to do it in the most professional way Why? There are five reasons why you should use AdSense for Search Display results in [...]

This is the hardest part of the tutorial. If you survive to this one, you portal is almost done. Before starting, I made some changes to the way of inserting posts described in part 2. I completely removed the post content and saved description and instructions as custom fiedls, like in this picture: Now, you [...]

Once you installed your WP blog, it’s just a matter of time before you hear this word: The Loop. Did you install a plugin? It probably has some advanced functions to be inserted in The Loop. Do you want to insert a banner or a Google ad after the first post (or inside it)? You [...]

The blog is approaching Alexa‘s top 50,000 (and I like to think it’s one of the most 50,000 visited sites in the world) so I spent the weekend to redesign it. After browsing a thousand of templates, both free and not free, I decided to download Silhouette WordPress Theme and take a look at Macalicious [...]

Here it is a new competition that can make you win $500 designing a 3 columns WordPress theme for FlashMint. FlashMint is a company that offers Flash templates for sale and now has to design its blog that at the moment is just another Kubrick one. If you want to take part into the contest, [...]