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Facebook “Like” Social Widget Bug: The page could not be reached.

September 7, 2011
Facebook “Like” Social Widget Bug: The page could not be reached.

If you’re landing here you’re probably searching your way through a frustrating Facebook Social Widget bug. When creating a “Like Button” over at: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ that points to a Page on Facebook, “Like”-ing the page results in an error which says that the Like URL being used could not be reached. Surely Facebook can reach itself...

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Simple WordPress Cron Plugin Tutorial

June 28, 2011

This is a very simple example of how to register a cron hook upon activation of a plug-in, and subsequently add a function action to that hook. I needed this for a plug-in I was developing, and find that although the pseudo-cron in WordPress is limited, it’s very useful for simple tasks. <?php //...

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