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Where has the Facebook View App Profile Page Link Gone?!?

posted on December 14th, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

Facebook View App Profile PageFacebook is on the move again.  They definitely keep things very interesting, to put it nicely.

I received a call this evening from a nice gentleman in Atlanta who was beside himself because he was trying to add a custom Facebook Page Tab to his Facebook Page and not having any luck.  He’d been at it for two days.  He made it through one of my videos only to get to the end and not see the nice link in the sidebar that reads “View App Profile Page”.  This was the link that would then allow you to add the application to any Facebook Page that you administer.  My initial response to adding the Facebook Page Tab was, Read More→

Creating a Facebook iFrame Application

posted on August 29th, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

REMEMBER: October 1, 2011 marks the requirement that Facebook Canvas and Page Tab Apps support secure URLs (i.e., HTTPS). Read more about Facebook Security Changes.

Previously we published a video covering how to Create a Facebook Page.  In order to utilize a Facebook iFrame Application you will need a Read More→

TimThumb Vulnerability Uncovered

posted on August 18th, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

About two weeks ago a vulnerability in a PHP plugin that is quite popular in performing image resizing tasks, and that I’d incorporated into my WEBphysiology Portfolio Plugin, was uncovered. I found out based upon an email that came out of my local WordPress Meetup group. The issue had to do with Read More→

Put a Facebook Send or Like Button on Your Posts with Code

posted on May 5th, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

On April 25, 2011, Facebook released the [Send] button. The [Send] button provides a means to share a web page with someone directly, as opposed to the [Like] button’s behavior of placing the entry on your wall for all your friends. Of course, the [Like] button is handy too. Fortunately Read More→

WordPress Theme Anatomy

posted on January 20th, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

This has to be one of the best diagrams that pulls together all the working parts of a WordPress theme. My hat is off to Joost de Valk for pulling this great illustration together and granting me permission to share it with the visitors to my site. Read More→

WEBphysiology Portfolio Climbs to New Heights

posted on January 14th, 2011
by Jeff Lambert

WEBphysiology Portfolio WordPress PluginI think we are ready for a break and to get back to the other web development business at hand, but we are truly happy with recent enhancements to our WEBphysiology Portfolio plugin for WordPress and wanted to let everyone know what’s been going on. Read More→

WordPress Security

posted on December 29th, 2010
by Jeff Lambert

padlockToday I happened to come across a great article (update – article no longer exists, so, link removed) that has some details on hardening a WordPress install. I already follow Read More→

How Does Your Site Stack Up – Part 1: User Interface Standards

posted on November 4th, 2010
by Jeff Lambert

It’s not a bad idea to review one’s website design at least a couple of times a year to ensure the design remains solid.  Recently, WEBphysiology took a spoonful of our own advice and performed a cross-browser review of our site, which resulted in us making a couple of small user interface (UI) changes.  One change was to Read More→

WEBphysiology Portoflio Plugin Released!

posted on October 18th, 2010
by Jeff Lambert
WEBphysiology Portfolio WordPress Plugin

WEBphysiology Portfolio

Hoorah!  We now have a much better understanding and appreciation for all those developers who have shared their work with us and others.  As of today, our first publicly available WordPress plugin, WEBphysiology Portfolio, has been released via the WordPress Plugin infrastructure.  It took awhile to work through the process, in addition to coding and testing the plugin, but we are very happy to join this community and feel good about giving back just a little.
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Adding Widget Areas to a Page

posted on September 7th, 2010
by Jeff Lambert

In this post I want to cover how one can add widget areas to a page. The example I’m going to use is something I had done on a TwentyTen child theme to make the home page consist of two widget areas. The left widget area is meant for Read More→

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