Jack Born On Marketing, Online Business, and PHP Code

With the recent release of Word Press 2.0 I decided it was high time to revisit my first plugin: Static Jack.

Not only did I rewrite and update the code for Static Jack, and fix a few bugs, but I came up with an idea for an all-new plugin that I call “Safe Include”.

I also discovered that, unlike WP version 1.5+, WP 2.0+ plays VERY nice with Static Jack. It’s practically tailor made for it. I’ve tested it with several themes and haven’t seen any breakage yet.

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Download “Static Jack” plugin here

Safe Include by Jack Born is a new Word Press plugin that is an off-shoot of my other plugin, staticJack. Both of these plugins are meant to make the job of adding static content to your Word Press blog simple, safe, and quick.

The really cool thing about Safe Include is the way in which you can write a post or page and just pop a {{placeholder}} in the body and bam… static content is added to the page or post.

If you want the static content to make up the entire post, then just use the placeholder alone. If you are using a static “block” of content (a contact form, or a short snippet of server side code) that you want to inject into the middle of a post, then this lets you do it.

Plus, this new plugin lets you go right into the code of your theme and inject static content wherever you want, in much the same way.

Easy to install and even easier to use.

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Download “Safe Include” by Jack Born

I recently saw a post in the forums for WordPress where someone was trying to add someone else’s php code to their themes. The code started off by setting a cookie. It was correctly commented in the source code to

…put this before any html

The reason being that to set a cookie, there must be no information sent to the browser yet. This is also true of other header(); php commands.

So, how can we put the script where we want, without having a whole bunch of errors thrown on the page?
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When I first fired up WordPress 1.5.1.2 I almost gave up on it prematurely because the new ‘Pages’ feature seemed to require two unacceptable options if I was to use permalinks (for more user-friendly urls):

• chmod .htaccess to world writable
• update .htaccess every time I wanted to add a new ‘page’

After some thorough searching through the forums, I came across some tips that solved the issue and made it possible to add pages without changing .htacess one bit.
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Am I the only one that thinks it’s a bit silly to create one template for your blog, one for your CMS, one for your discussion board, and yet another for static pages you upload?

Because very rarely are you going to create ALL of your content within the confines of even the very best blog or CMS apps.
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