If you’ve ever used the Twitter API to get the number of your Twitter followers, your latest status updates, or something similar using the Twitter API you may have come across a little problem that has been bugging me for a while. Twitter has a limit on the number of API requests per hour. So, If you have a high traffic blog or other website you may find that your scripts tapping into their API don’t always return with info from Twitter. How to solve this? A solution I came up with recently involves storing the data from the Twitter API in a text file, then simply calling the file to get the data. This saves API calls and keeps you from timing out, unless of course you’re calling it somewhere else on your site.

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As you may have heard, on Friday evening I got what was to be the first of a couple of emails from some very helpful people telling me that there was a big message up from Google saying that WPShout contained viruses, spyware, the lot! I took a look for myself and sure enough, WPShout had been hacked somehow.

This isn’t good.

I’m fairly happy with my security; there are lots of little tips and tricks I use that make the site harder to hack than most, leaving me with the impression most hackers just wouldn’t bother and move on to the thousands more WordPress blogs without the extra layer of security.

I was wrong, evidently.

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Documentation is the first thing that a customer will see once buying a WordPress theme, but it’s often very poor. Why? Documentation is done last

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Hello! It’s a new WPShout article! That hasn’t happened for way too long! Sorry for the unexplained absence. What have I been doing? Excellent question. I’ve been uber busy at college, to answer it. In this post I just wanted to clear up a couple of things and ask for your help in maintaining WPShout in the future.

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If your looking to make adding new posts without having to log into the WordPress dashboard, or maybe to allow your visitors a way to submit some kind of content of their own, then here’s a way you can create a new post form and display it on a custom page template.

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