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Content Marketing
PHP: Use the WordPress API to Build a Shortcode to List Subpages
We’re working on quite a complex implementation for an enterprise client right now. The site is being built in WordPress but has a ton of bells and whistles. Often, when I’m doing this type of work, I like to save the custom code for repurposing later on other sites. In this case, I thought it was such a useful function,…
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Content Marketing
Fastly: Why Performance is Key for the Smart Marketer
To be successful in today’s fast-moving and end-user-focused environment, marketers need a fast, secure, flexible solution that can deliver content in real-time. Fastly’s platform speeds up websites and mobile apps by pushing content closer to your users, providing improved and secure experiences worldwide. The key to smart marketing is prioritizing performance to improve conversions. Fastly Solution Overview Fastly is a…
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Analytics & Testing
Mashape Connects Developers and APIs
For the longest time, my goto for finding APIs was Programmable Web – but that may have changed after perusing Mashape. Mashape isn’t simple a searchable directory of APIs, it actually integrates the API directly into their repository. This enables you to sign up, find and test an API without any difficulty at all. Here’s their list of benefits and…
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Content Marketing
Using Digital Asset Management to Streamline Social Promotion
We have two clients right now that have millions of customers nationwide. The pressure to scale a social media strategy that promotes, reacts and responds to that size of network is no small undertaking – and truly impossible without the use of workflow and automation. What businesses don’t realize is that the curation and workflow tools to simplify the ability…
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Marketing Tools
SoapUI: The Developer’s Tool for Testing and Visualizing APIs
Whenever I meet with a good friend, I hear about a new tool that makes life easier. I had coffee with David Grigsby, a .NET integration expert who works for DocuSign. David and I discussed SOAP versus REST APIs (that’s how we roll). I tend to favor REST APIs because they’re easier to visualize and develop a chunk at a…
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Marketing Tools
Stop Building Crappy Software – Integrated Software Still Wins
Here is something internal CIO’s and your internal tech teams don’t want you to know: the 18-month software implementation that just cost you $500K – $1MM could be done a hell of a lot cheaper…and should be. They are building job security because most C-level leaders and marketers don’t understand how technology can and should work. As marketers, we all…
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Content Marketing
Managing Your Application Programming Interface
It’s 2:30AM here in Paris, France… and I can’t sleep so what better to do than to write a blog post! DK New Media has worked recently with two companies recently who have implemented technology to manage their application programming interface (API). APIs have become a powerful and necessary feature to any platform so that marketers can integration and automate…
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Content Marketing
PHP: Using Is.gd API to Shorten URL
Just read an article on the benefits and pitfalls of shortening URLs over at SEOmoz. I utilize the Is.gd API to do this: function doCurlRequest($url, $variable, $value) { $api = $url."?".$variable."=".$value; $session = curl_init(); curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_URL, $api); curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $data = curl_exec($session); curl_close($session); return $data; } function doShortenURL($longurl) { $url = "http://is.gd/api.php"; $variable = "longurl"; $shorturl = doCurlRequest($url, $variable,…
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Content Marketing
How To Add A Media Player to Your Site Easily with Wimpy Player
A few of our clients needed a friendly media player for their sites that was simple to implement I was looking for a modern audio player that would work across browsers and devices. I found Wimpy Player, an incredibly simple yet robust player for audio and video files. With its user-friendly interface and comprehensive features, the Wimpy Player is the…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Check If The User is Logged, Determine Their Role, And Modify Content
We have a lot of authors on Martech Zone but not all of them are familiar with WordPress and how to log in and publish on the site. WordPress can identify whether or not you’re logged into the platform using a user_level function that returns whether or not you’re logged in as well as what your role is. Check User…
