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Detecting Search Engines Bot & Web Spiders

// May 1st, 2011 // Comments Off on Detecting Search Engines Bot & Web Spiders // PHP

Many websites implement their own visitors log database and some data in it are junk because of the web spiders and bots that are checking on the site.

Force Refresh SimplePie Cache on WordPress

// April 12th, 2011 // 2 Comments » // PHP

WordPress 3.1 uses SimplePie for its Feed fetcher and by default set the cache lifetime to 12 hours. The issue is that regardless of cache lifetime span I would like to be able to force refresh the cache. This journal shows you on how to do that.

Fetch RSS Feed like Twitter & Google Reader from WordPress

// April 5th, 2011 // 2 Comments » // PHP

I know there are lots of WordPress plugin to fetch tweets & Google Reader entries, but for this one I decided to implement it directly on the Wordpress framework for this website.