Random-is.me

Just wanted to say that Snap569 Coding has moved to http://random-is.me/code.

I’ve got a few people asking about how I got the seconds it took the page to load to display. Just wanna share the code:

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<?php timer_stop(1); ?>  <?php echo $db->num_queries; ?>

Or you can simply use:

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<?php echo('text before time' . timer_stop(0) . 'text after time'); ?>

HTML is allowed in text before time and text after time.

Works in a WordPress environment only.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO), is well self-explanatory. I shouldn’t have to explain what it is, but I will! SEO is simply moving up in the search engine rankings. Hopefully search engines will like you more after you make use of this post. On with my tips:

1. Use Headers Correctly

   By headers I mean <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4> and so on. What you should have is 1 <h1> tag, 10-15 <h2>, and as many as headers your sidebar needs for <h3>. Confused? I’ll explain. <h1> tags should have the website’s/webpage’s title (eg. Random-is.me). <h2> tags should have the description (if any) (eg. It’s random, too damn random) and the post titles. <h3> tags should be used for sidebar titles.

2. Meta Tags

   Make sure you have a description, keywords, author etc. If you don’t have them, Google meta generator.

3. Search Engines Don’t Have Eyes

   Sadly they don’t. So use alt="image of something" for images and title="image of something" for images, links, titles, headers etc.

4. Validate.

   No I’m not kidding, search engines prefer it.

Got your own tips to share? Go ahead.

Well as you may have seen, I’ve been changing themes quite frequently in the last few days. I decided to go back to Resurrection (my theme), and as I was looking through the comments code, I found this:

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<p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="Log out of this account">Log out &raquo;</a></p>

What’s wrong with that you ask? If you’re on WordPress 2.7 (you better be), you’re gonna have a problem. In WordPress 2.7, you’ll notice there’s a wpnonce=x (x being random figures and letters) added to the logout URL. How do I get that when there’s a random figure there? Simple:

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<p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url(); ?>" title="Log out of this account">Log out &raquo;</a></p>

See the difference? It’s the echo wp_logout_url();. That function gives you the whole URL with the wpnounce.

Last month, I published a post about the WordPress functionthe_time('Y') and the PHP function date('Y')

Well as I was browsing through a few old posts, which were published in 2008, I noticed that the year date in the footer changed back to 2008. I changed it to

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<?php echo date('Y'); ?>

Then it stayed as 2009! By the way, I know this can be figured out through common sense, but some lack it, this is obviously for disclaimers, footers etc. – NOT for posts.

You know, for a while I thought the_date for WordPress was 100% good… Them I found out it sucks! Sometimes it doesn’t show, sometimes it shows up in different formats so here’s what I’ll use from now on…

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<?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?>

Output: December 22, 2008

Simple, and easy.

How to make your own phpinfo page…

Simply create a .php page and add this to it:

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<?php phpinfo(); ?>

How simple…

You may have read my previous post — Year PHP Code. Here’s an extra thing…

What if you wanna display the next year? You add the following…

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<?php echo date ('Y') + 1; ?>

Output: 2011
When it does turn 2011, it will automatically change to 2012!

You can change the + 1 to any number that suits your needs!

EDIT: date Instead of the_time

If you wanna use the current year for a copyright statement or whatever and not have to update it every year (if you’re that lazy ) Here’s how:

If you’re in a WordPress environment:

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<?php the_time('Y'); ?>

Output: 2008
(Yes, I can execute PHP in my posts.)

And in any normal .php page, you can get the year from your server.

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<?php echo date('Y'); ?>

Output: 2010
So on exactly 31/12/2008 11:59, it’ll be 2010, and the next minute, well.. you know what’s gonna happen.

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Yes, you heard me, Iframes out. Yes a site can work without them. Calm down Why would you wanna get rid of Iframes?
1. They’re old
2. Too “limiting”
3. Its harder to get on Google etc. with them.
4. They’re un-professional IMO.