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Post to WordPress Remotely With XMLRPC in PHP

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CODE IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED AND THERE IS NO SUPPORT FOR IT.  ASKING QUESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS IS PROBABLY A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME. One of Nickycakes’ first projects making cash online started a little less than a year ago and was not much more than an autoblog system that would [...]

Firefox Plugins You Should Be Using

Ok folks, here are some of Nickycakes’ favorite firefox plugins for doin internet marketing webdesign coding affiliate type stuff. Search Status – http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ This plugin does a few cool things. It shows you the Google Pagewank and Alexa rank of the current page, and by right clicking on the icon it puts at the bottom [...]

Linky – Open Source Random Interlinking Script

Today, Nickycakes is releasing Linky.  Linky lets you input an unlimited number of anchor texts and urls, and generate random interlinking between all the urls.  No links will be reciprocal, there are no self-links, and no links are displayed twice on the same page.  There are an even number of incoming and outgoing links to [...]

Datapresser Review

Almost exactly one year ago, Eli from BluehatSEO made a post on MadLib sites. The basic idea behind a MadLib site is this: You make a script that will randomly (or not so randomly) generate pages from a database of information by inserting different pieces of information into each post to make them unique. For [...]

Wikipedia Scraper

For a recent project, Nickycakes had to code a Wikipedia scraper. Here’s a simplified version of the function for you to use if you want. This code requires a few library files, which are included in LIB_http.zip. Enjoy: include(‘LIB_http.php’); include(‘LIB_parse.php’); function wikiscrape($topic){ $target = “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/”.urlencode($topic); $results = http_get($target,”"); $paragraphs = parse_array($results['FILE'],”<p>”,”</p>”,EXCL); foreach($paragraphs as $paragraph){ $paragraph [...]