More and more clients are using WordPress as their CMS. As a designer or developer, you should really get into WordPress coding. To get started, you can read my WordPress theme guide and hacks. Now, I would like to recommend a resourceful WordPress site to you called WpRecipes. This post contains over 20 recipes that I hand picked from WpRecipes. If you have any good WordPress code or hacks that you want to share, feel free to send them over and I will post it. (more…)
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Original post by Nick La
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WordPress Configuration Tricks .: If you have ever installed WordPress and wanted to know what else you could do with your wp-config.php file, this is the blog post to read. As Ozh points out in the comments, a couple of tricks were left out but nothing that could not be remedied with a simple Google search (e.g. WP_HTTP) as long as you know what you are looking for.
Tips from that page that got me thinking (things that make you go hmmmmm?) include moving your wp-content directory, increasing your memory limit, changing the autosave interval, turning on debugging and finally the ability to specify a log file for errors. All of this through the wondrous wp-config.php file.
While you are there, make sure you subscribe to the blog. Chris and Jeff are putting out some good stuff!
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WordPress Configuration Tricks
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Original post by Mark Ghosh
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Dev4Press has done some interesting work on benchmarking various aspects of WordPress and then testing out some popular questions on page loads etc. The methodologies are well documented and the benchmarking setup is standardized. They are testing three version of WordPress including 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.8 (I wish they would have waited for 2.8.1 to be released). This first set of tests were performed on the WordPress admin interface and other benchmarks will follow. While the quantities are not as important, I think the trends are interesting. Though not independently confirmed, the growing girth of the admin interface is obvious. In contrast, my test WordPress 2.8.1 blog has shown marked improvements in load times and memory usage as compared to WordPress 2.8. It will be interesting to see how the load and memory usage trends of the WordPress admin interface change with future versions as the WordPress team turns their attention […]
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Hanging
In Greens and Browns this theme has a healthy balance of color with the main content area a very clear two column layout with a light background.
Vina
Vina is unique layout and auto grabbed image, multi widget, threaded comment and many more
Freshmade Software
A software company styled theme in light colors of white, orange and brown. Supporting widgets and nested comments.
FancyPress
2 columns, fixed width, widget ready theme
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WordPress Theme Releases for 06/28
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Original post by Perurry
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Live Streaming video from WordCamp Dallas thanks to Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.tv. Thanks to WPTavern for the link.
I was at WordCamp Dallas last year but could not make it to this one. I am jealous!
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Live Stream and Chat from WordCamp Dallas
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Original post by Mark Ghosh
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News Plugins
External Files
External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What’s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url).
WordPress Console
It provides an in-browser interactive console for the WordPress environment.
SEO Blogger
Whether you blog about business, politics or the hot topic of the moment, SEO Blogger allows you to find the most sought-after keywords for your subject without ever leaving your blog editing screen.
SearchTerms Tagging 2
The function of this plugin is to displays some of the last unique keywords (default is 30, adjustable from plugin admin page) that visitors used to find the blog post from search engine. Each keyword will be changed into a link to that page. The goal is to get more traffic to the […]
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WordPress 2.8 just crossed the 1 million download mark today, you can see the live counter for WordPress downloads on the download counter page.
This is definitely great news since this milestone was reached in 12 days, have you upgraded to WordPress 2.8 yet?
Thanks @photomatt via twitter. Follow us @weblogtooltips.
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WordPress 2.8 Crosses 1 Million Downloads
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Original post by Keith Dsouza
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Short answer? It is jumpin! Have you checked out the Plugin Competition Blog recently? There are six new plugins announced for the competition and all of them look fantastic. The comments have been very positive and visitors have been actively rating the entries as they come in. Here is what we have so far:
Tweetable: Another Twitter integration plugin for WordPress (we really need to consolidate these, but there is feature differentiation)
Live Blogging Plugin: Setup a live blog within minutes, needs Meteor
ImageShack Offloader: Move your image hosting to ImageShack
Max Image Size Control: Finer granular control of image sizes in WordPress
WP Devel: Add a whole bunch of debug options to your WordPress blog
WP Update Message: Tweak and refine the update messages in your WordPress admin panel
In addition to these plugins, I know of at least 10 others that are being developed for the competition and I am hoping for many more. A […]
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The Federal Trade Commission is planning to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products while earning freebies or payments, the Associated Press reported Sunday. “New guidelines, expected to be approved late this summer with possible modifications, would clarify that the agency can go after bloggers–as well as the companies that compensate them–for any false claims or failure to disclose conflicts of interest,” the article explained. via Report: FTC to go after blogger freebies | Politics and Law - CNET News.
While I am not a big fan of government scrutiny and general “big brother” mentality, I do believe that this will add to the believability and authenticity of the blogging medium. We at Weblog Tools Collection try very hard to keep commercial interests completely out of the content that we generate and only rely on what we consider to be ethical ads to make ends meet. We also follow a […]
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Many of us seldom visit the admin dashboard in WordPress, even if we do we may not really pay attention to the updates available to the plugins we use, one of our twitter followers for @weblogtooltips Avaz tweeted this.
Taking cue from that I quickly wrote a plugin that will do what Avaz suggested, it will send out updates via email to administrators whenever there are new plugin updates available to install.
You can setup the updates to go out daily, weekly or monthly and also choose to receive intimations for deactivated plugins.
The plugin requires you to setup the options before it actually works, you will see a message in the admin header to setup the option if you haven’t done that at-least once.
For for information and downloading visit the Plugin Updates Email Notifier homepage.
We keep a hawk eye on our twitter account, so don’t forget to send us your tips, […]
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