WordPress Plugin: Movie Shortcode

Do you blog about movies or tv shows? It can be a tedious job adding movie information such as synopsis, genres, directors, cast and crew, or finding the correct artwork. Why not use a simple WordPress shortcode to do all the hard work for you.

F13s Movie Shortcode allows you to insert movie, tv show or episode information using an IMDB ID or a title and year, cutting out all the hard work.

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WordPress Plugin: Youtube Shortcode

Do you want to embed a Youtube video into a page or blog post on a WordPress powered website? Can’t remember the Youtube embed code? Why not embed videos with shortcode.

Simply add the ‘youtube’ shortcode to the desired location on a page or blog post, enter the video ID under the video attribute and optionally set the autoplay attribute to true.

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WordPress plugin: Google Maps

Do you have a shop or business premises that you want to help people find? Maybe you host regular events at a set of venus; perhaps Google Maps Shortcode could help you advertise the locations.

Simply add the googlemap shortcode to your desired WordPress page or blog post, enter the address information in the attributes and you will have an interactive map added to your page or blog post.

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Programming operations, using maths

An important part of computer programming is implementing mathematic operations. Maths can be used to implement many functions in an application; be it to include functionality that is obviously maths related, or to implement functions that may not immediately appear, to the user, as a maths problem; such as calculating the window size to maintain the correct aspect ratio, or to calculate the width of a field that is to be half the width of the window.

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WordPress Plugin: GitHub Profile Widget

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WordPress Plugin: GitHub Repo Shotcode

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OOP: Instance variables, Class variables & Local variables

Variables form an essential part of every application for storing, retrieving and generating dynamic data. In OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) there are three main types of variables which provide slightly different functionality; Instance variables, Class variables and Local variables.

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WordPress plugin: Plugin information shortcode

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OOP: Writing a class and creating objects

Classes and objects are a key principal of OOP (Object-Oriented Programming). The idea behind OOP is that classes are created to represent a real world entity; this real world entity could be a tangible object, such as a person or a car, or an intangible object, such as a job position or a date.

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Commenting code

Code comments offer a method of annotation for the code that makes up an application, a part of an application, or simply a single line of code. When source code is compiled, or executed comments are ignored; they have no affect on the final product, the output of a method, or what a line of code produces.

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