Archive for the 'Wordpress Stuff' Category

What Is A Blog?

Friday, August 15th, 2008

This is a group writing project. If you want to take part, read on!

It is 2008; do we still need to ask ourselves what a blog is? I think so, and for two reasons. First of all we still have many misconceptions about blogging floating around the web. Pretty much every week I get at [...]

The Trends of Online China

Friday, August 15th, 2008

As I opened my email account this morning I came across a pitch from a guy that wanted me to take a look on some handboook his company had published. Rarely I cover the stuff people send to me over email (else that is all I would end up doing here, since I get some [...]

The Art of Writing Catchy Articles: 11 Simple Tips

Friday, August 15th, 2008

This is a guest article by Rajat Bhadani.
1. Content is Important:
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them - George Orwell
It’s like good storytelling – your writing needs to guide your audience into what you want them to think/perceive or they [...]

Now I See Why the WordPress Image Align Feature Was Not Working

Friday, August 15th, 2008

There is one WordPress feature that was introduced with version 2.5 that always made me curious: the image alignment feature of the “Add media” editor. Why? Because it never worked!

I knew that I was probably doing something wrong, but since I didn’t have time to find it out, I just kept choosing “none” as the [...]

Website Traffic Series Part 11: Put Your URL On Online Profiles

Friday, August 15th, 2008

If you are a savvy Internet user, I am sure that you have a bunch of online profiles spread all over the place. Facebook, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Twitter and so on. Sometimes we just create an account on those places because friends encourage us to, or out of sheer curiosity. Regardless of the motive, it would [...]

WordPress 2.6.1 Beta 1

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

With 2.6.1, we’re continuing our trend of releasing a dot one release about a month after dot zero.  We want to get fixes for the inevitable dot zero bugs into your hands without a long wait.  If you’re happy with 2.6, you can ignore 2.6.1.
If you are an IIS or i18n user, we’ve fixed a [...]

WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall Methods

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall Methods: A tutorial from Jacob Santos on the WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall functionality and how to use it to make the uninstall process easy and seamless. Jacob adds a note to all plugin authors that I believe is worth mentioning: Special care then should be taken when using this method to [...]

WordPress Theme Releases for 08/09

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Connections Reloaded

Connections Reloaded is a complete reload of the highly popular and extremely beautiful Connections theme by Patricia Muller. Connections Reloaded 2.0.1 is a two column, widget and Gravatar ready theme. Includes few inbuilt widgets as well as many page templates.
Ginseng Coffee

Ginseng Coffee is a three column, brown, widget and Gravatar and tag ready theme.
Floral [...]

If, Then, Else

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Ever become brave enough to look inside of a WordPress php file? Specifically, a php file from a theme? If you have, you may have noticed that they are filled with If, Then, and Else statements. If you have no idea what these mean, this post is for you.
Php has always been a pain for [...]

WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/11

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Open Web Analytics
A full featured web analytics framework that provides detailed analysis of site users, click behavior, traffic sources, feed subscriptions and content consumption.
Cross References
Insert cross-references between posts or pages with [cref postID], such as [cref 1], or optionally with [cref post-slug], for example [cref hello-world], and get all backward references automatically at the end [...]