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Lost in time(zones)? http://localtime.at can help

May 5, 2012 by Thorsten 0 Comments

Working for a distributed company like Automattic is great, but with clients and co-workers spread across the globe I tend to get lost in timezone conversions. Sure there are some great tools like http://timeanddate.com and http://www.worldtimebuddy.com, but I needed something simple so this night I created http://localtime.at/, my own little timezone converter which takes a […]

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Uncategorized

datetime, featured, time, timezone, timezones, tools

Updated documentation and Coda Syntax mode to WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”

December 13, 2011 by Thorsten 0 Comments

The latest and greatest WordPress 3.3, codename “Sonny” is ready for download. Apart of all the little tweaks and fixes there are also a bunch of very useful feature coming along with this version: Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the […]

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Documentation, News

coda, featured, sonny, wordpress 3.3, wordpress syntax mode, wp 3.3

Meet wpshell – the power of WordPress at your prompt

November 13, 2011 by Thorsten 6 Comments

Developing in WordPress is a lot of fun for me and there are great plugins that make developing and debugging WordPress code really simple. Debug-Bar, Debug-Bar-Extender and Debug-Console are my favorite WordPress plugins to do this. But if you really live in WordPress code all day long you might sometimes wish that you can just […]

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Development

debugging, featured, wordpress cli, wordpress debugging, wordpress shell, wpshell

Updated WordPress Documentation API

September 5, 2011 by Thorsten 0 Comments

I just updated the Documentation API and created a more lightweight design at http://lookup.hitchhackerguide.com/ in order to create a better integration in IDEs such as Coda. This lookup tool now also will give you some results for native PHP functions.

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Documentation

documentation api, featured, lookup api, wordpress documentation

WP-Cron-Control lets you take control over wp-cron execution

August 1, 2011 by Thorsten 1 Comment

Did you ever wonder when your scheduled wp-cron tasks get executed or ran into trouble when your scheduled posts did not get published? If that’s the case then you might want to take wp-cron-control for a spin. This small plugin allows you to disable the normal wp-cron processing that is usually hooked into the sanitize_comment_cookies […]

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Plugins

cron, featured, missed schedule, sanitize_comment_cookies, scheduled job, scheduled posts, scheduled task, wp-cron, wp_next_scheduled

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