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XML Sitemap PHP script
by Joost de Valk on July 19, 2011
Recently, while working on the site for my father in law (in Dutch), I wanted to create an XML sitemap for the many publications on his site, that are downloadable PDF’s. I regularly add PDF’s to his site too, and since I’m a tad bit lazy I don’t want…
Web Intents from Twitter
by Joost de Valk on July 7, 2011
At the end of March Twitter released a cool new feature called “Web Intents”. I didn’t really see the value of it till recently, but I’ve now started using it way more. When you have a Tweet button on your site, you’re already using the Web Intents API…
Email Reliability: use an SPF record
by Joost de Valk on July 6, 2011
A while back I outlined my system for preventing comment spam. One of the core fundamentals in there is that I send people an email to verify their email address before their comment is published. For this to work well, I need to trust on my email to b…
Practical Guide to 404 Error Pages: What WordPress is Missing
by Joost de Valk on November 3, 2009
I make mistakes. You make mistakes. We all do. And some of these mistakes end up providing our readers with a 404 page. Chances are that page says “Error 404: file not found”. How does that help your visitor?
Instead of just identifying the problem, your 404 page needs to offer a solution.
In the default [...]
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