How to determine wordpress version in a plugin or code

Often when developing plugins or scripts that need to support new features and older versions of wordpress it is neccessery to determine the currently running version of a wordpress install. There are a number of ways to do this, although i believe the solution that i offer up is the best to future proof your code. Often developers will use complex string position or...

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Buzludzha, a cold wind from the east

I sometimes wonder if there is a better way of things, a fairer way. A direction away from the consumption driven, egotistical and totally unsustainable path of capitalism. A place where the values of family, community and the environment take priority. The well being of the whole and not just the gifted few. Is this a Utopian Marxists dream? Only time holds the...

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Shady Persian motorcycle deals

Late 2009 to early 2010 i spent 4 months or so riding a motorcycle around the indescribebly beautiful country of Iran. Despite what  image the media may portray, the people of Iran are some of the friendliest and most hospitibal i have encounterd in all my wanderings. During my stay in Iran I rarely found myself lodging at a hotel or hostel as i was constantly staying...

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Friendly travels

If your interested in reading the well formed ramblings of a close friend of my’n head on over to his travel blog. Growing up in the same small town we hail from the same social group that is intensely addicted to life on the road. As memory serves me right… Chris has been to every continent on this little planet of ours. Also as a side note he is pretty...

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