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WordPress Hooks, Actions and Filters – Modifying the Publish function

Doug McCaughan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:38:50 +0000

I’m writing a child theme to twentyeleven and want to modify the administrative post "Publish" function to do some additional processing during the saving of a new post. Does anyone know if there is a hook, action or filter that will allow me to extend the Publish function?

RIP No Silence Here

Doug McCaughan — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:26:49 +0000

I cannot seem to get a comment to post on the Knoxnews blog No Silence Here.

"I’m told it will cease to exist." That’s a terrible shame. Blogs, content, are history. Like newspapers of old were archived on microfiche, so should blogs such as No Silence Here be forever archived.

Good luck to you Michael! Thank you for the years of inspiration, links, and ideas.

Why do we blog?

Doug McCaughan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:52:59 +0000

I’m a stream-of-consciousness blogger. That is, I journal at Reality Me. I make political commentary. And inappropriate jokes. And document my family’s escapades, adventures, trills and tribulations. But to believe my site statistics (the traffic search engines send this way), I blog at Reality Me to answer "Who is Chuck Testa?," to explain "The Realtek 8201CL does not require a driver!," to debate the safety of putting family stickers on cars, and to explore the fetish of naked women yielding chain saws.

So, why does my wife, Cathy, blog at Domestic Psychology? To believe the search engines, specifically Google, Cathy is the authority on "Why is Caillou bald? Well, at least until yesterday when the publisher generously answered the question in a comment. As a web developer, I recognize the effort by the publisher to regain control of the number one search engine result for the question "Why is Caillou bald?" Whoever was hired to do Chouette Publishing’s SEO did their job very well. As of yesterday, Cathy dropped from number one to number two in Google’s results.

The future of video

Doug McCaughan — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:53:14 +0000

Click and drag in any direction. This is awesome.

Weekend Project – Brakes

Doug McCaughan — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:40:34 +0000

Listen toward the end of the video for the cicadas. That’s a slight sampling of the cacophony we hear in our yard every evening.

n.b. The "discs" I refer to are actually called rotors.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Doug McCaughan — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:39:30 +0000

A Tiny Day in the Jackson Hole Backcountry from Tristan Greszko on Vimeo.

This looks like something that belongs on Adult Swim.

Heard in 5 states!

Doug McCaughan — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:26:51 +0000

What was I doing this morning between 9am and 10am? Hanging out with Bob Thomas, Ed Brantley, Mike Howard, and Brian Hornback on WNOX‘s The Ed and Bob Show! I had a blast! I hope they do this segment again. I think we could have talked for 8 hours on various blogging topics. Shoot, privacy and safety could be an entire show.

Brian blogs at http://brianhornback.blogspot.com/ and tweets as @brianhornback.
Bob Thomas tweets as @BobThomasWNOX
Ed Brantley tweets as @edbrantley
WNOX is online at http://www.wnoxfm.com/ and can be found on Twitter as @WNOX1003 and the studio is live streamed for video through Justin.tv
The Ed and Bob show has a webpage, a Facebook page and can be found on Twitter as @ed_and_bob. The show accepts callers at +1-865-243-TALK (8255) or text messages to 41513
Shameless plug: Cathy McCaughan blogs at http://domesticpsychology.com

Tune in tomorrow 9-10am

Doug McCaughan — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:01:53 +0000

Tomorrow, April 6, 2011 from 9am to 10am, I’ll be discussing blogging with Brian Hornback (Twitter: @brianhornback), Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas on WNOX‘s 100.3 The Ed & Bob Show (listen live online). You can interact with Ed and Bob on Facebook and Twitter. I suspect you can call in with questions or feel free to use twitter to send messages to @djuggler or post in comments here. This will be a blast!

Dogboarding

Doug McCaughan — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:36:11 +0000

So wrong, yet so right.

Dogboarding from DANIELS on Vimeo.

This should happen in every traffic jam

Doug McCaughan — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:38:45 +0000

When the roads slow to a crawl..DANCE!

Angry Birds Peace Treaty

Doug McCaughan — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:11:13 +0000

A historic moment for birds and pigs everywhere.

Talking to your kids about Star Wars

Doug McCaughan — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:50:30 +0000

Thank God I’m a Country Boy

Doug McCaughan — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:39:05 +0000

You’re about to see a blurry man buttocks. It’s okay. It’s not bad and I wouldn’t even call it "not safe for work" It’s worth it to watch this whole thing!

Cows and cows and cows

Doug McCaughan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:01:30 +0000

What do you do with a city that needs a lot of paint?

Doug McCaughan — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:06:45 +0000

Old buildings? Beach front property? Rusted Water towers? Make an animation with graffiti of course!

BIG BAG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.