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How To Sell Products Directly From Your WordPress Blog

Recently, a friend asked me, “Could I run a shop within WordPress?”

I’m sure that she’s not the only person who wondered about this. After looking around, I found one of the best tools to integrate an online shop with your WordPress blog: WP e-Commerce.

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Why I Got Rid Of The ShareThis WordPress Plugin

The ShareThis plugin is probably among the most popular ones for WordPress. It can be seen literally everywhere! I got on the ShareThis bandwagon since version 1.4 was released. Although I love the idea behind ShareThis, there is one particular thing that I dislike about it.

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Nonsensical Software Licensing

I’ve seen some PHP scripts that are distributed for free but with an illogical license. Let me show you of a sample license that in my opinion, makes absolutely no sense:

XXX is free software. This License grants you to use this software free of charge for as long as you wish. You may not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed program except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorized use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this license.

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My PHP Cache System Hunt

I’ve been hunting for a nice PHP caching system to be implemented on my server. I’ve looked at APC and eAccelerator. Both looks like a mature and feasible caching system for PHP. I then compiled and installed them (one at a time of course) on the server and I was very surprised by the results!

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Section Specific Text Widget Released

What if there’s a WordPress widget that can display text on a specific section of your blog? Let’s say you have some bookmarking JavaScript that you only want displayed in posts but not on other WordPress pages.

This was the problem I wanted to solve. I searched for a widget that already does this, but found none. I didn’t think that this would be too hard to code myself and decided to give it a go. A few hours later; Section Specific Text Widget was born.

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