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Enable SoundCloud oEmbed on your WordPress site

Due to being in a mood involving musician promotion, I’m typing up this quicky tutorial about adding SoundCloud oEmbed support to your site. Simply add this code snippet it to your theme’s functions.php, a basic quick plugin that you type up as you read this post, or a “Must-Use” plugin. Once that is added, you Read More…

Untested: Track image views in slider with Google Analytics

Be forewarned, this is not tested at all, but theoretically, it should work. This is also going to be rather generalized and assume you know how to use/install jQuery sliders and have Google Analytics installed. Resources used Google Analytics snippet from arplis.com Google Analytics itself from Google Flexslider from WooThemes I came across someone on Read More…

The plugin idea garden

So, last year, I posted A request for WordPress plugin ideas and it got picked up on WPCandy. This resulted in a flood of unanticipated feedback and ideas, and I have to admit, I haven’t touched a single one of them. There always seems to be other things needing done or bills to pay and Read More…

Please Use Me, I’m awesome for WordPress

I have an idea for a post series that I want to write, featuring WordPress functions/classes/hooks/APIs that are not necessarily well known about features, but are actually pretty awesome. However, my list at the moment is still pretty small(and listed below). My intent with each post is going to be to talk about the featured Read More…

A new asylum

I just wanted to post quick that I am going to be making Michaelbox a webdev/WordPress/freelance/career blog only. Late last night I set up a new blog over at WordPress.com and will aim to do any and all “personal” blogging through it. You can find it below and in the sidebar. The Pirate Asylum Some Read More…