Erik’s Blog: Board Shorts and Business Suits

As some of you may know or have read, I’ve dabbled in custom php coding for wordpress. I’ve created scripts to populate tables, and custom code to help save your YPN account from being banned. That got reviews on problogger and entrepreneurs journey.

I’ve written a few ways to customize your adsense code for wordpress posts like adding adsense between multiple wordpress paragraphs and wrapping text around adsense or chitika ads in your wordpress posts. Although these were pretty simple coding tasks, they seemed to help a lot of people based on their comments and the amount of emails I received asking about better implementation. I also received a lot of people wondering if I could prepare a plugin to do some of these tasks easier for those who don’t want to hack up their templates. Should have been checking my comments these last few months.

I was finally able to put all that php hacking to good use by consulting for my brother in a project he’s working on for his company Paper Tree Design. The project was simple, write some code to allow user uploads of videos and integrate those videos into an easy to use wordpress plugin. OK, maybe that simple, but definitely a lot of fun!

The script integrates into a Wordpress blog that has a front end user administration panel and vPIP, a great video script with ever growing functionality. It was great to work with my brother and learn a few things about interacting with various plugins and their databases.

I’m sure I’ll elaborate on the functionality of the upload script but I thought I would give a little insight into where I ditched off to so quickly after getting back into things…