Archive for November, 2005

11/29/2005 ↓

  • Mouse-less Firefox

    Mouse-less Firefox: On the eve of a new release of Firefox (1.5) check out this nicely written, resourceful article on useing Firefox without touching your mouse. One of my coworkers is a BIG keyboard advocate and thanks to his association, I have started to use a lot of very useful shortcuts. Coding is SO much easier when you dont have to move your hands to touch the mouse. (4)

11/28/2005 ↓

Get Ready 21comments

Author: Mark Ghosh Category: General

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11/27/2005 ↓

WP Plugin: Contextual Related Posts 132comments

I have upgraded and consolidated my old Contextual Related Posts Plugin for Wordpress. This new version (1.1) is a simple install (just install the plugin file) and it will show the last 5 related posts from your blog. The display show the links right after the comment form. The matching is done with the post title of the post being viewed. Examples include my Green Car Blog (wordpress 2.0) and Desi Dalal (Wordpress 1.5)
PS: Some theme authors tend to remove default actions from their themes (Rin is a good example). If you are having problems displaying the related posts, please check with your theme author or post a comment here for help.

Download Contextual Related Posts Plugin

Please post bugs and comments.

[edit] The follow is Bob’s code from the comments below:

relatedfunction.txt

  • WP Theme: Abstrakt

    WP Theme: Abstrakt: Two column, greenish, well formatted, abstract theme for Wordpress by Kaushal. Via Email. (0)

11/25/2005 ↓

WP Plugin: Top 10 posts and Views per post 62comments

After much goading from a few well wishers, I finally had the chance to clean up and build a plugin out of the Top 10 Posts and Views per post hack for Wordpress. This should work and has been tested on Wordpress 1.5 and Wordpress 2.0 beta. Please post bugs, suggestions etc.

Installation should be very simple. Upload the plugin, enable and then add the single line function(s) to your template where you want the display. Example at my GreenCar blog.

Top 10 and most viewed Download [EDIT] Plugin Updated for 1.5 support. Please redownload if you were having problems.

11/23/2005 ↓

11/22/2005 ↓

  • Free Programming Tips (that) are Worth Every Penny

    Free Programming Tips (that) are Worth Every Penny Code like the Samurai Good advice. I found myself nodding my head a lot while reading the article. (which is mostly learned by rote and not by strict education) (1)

Wordpress.com out of beta 2comments

Wordpress.com out of beta: If you have always wanted a Wordpress.com blog but have lacked an invite, this is your chance. Wordpress.com is now public and anyone can sign up. This is pretty cool. Go Automattic!

Go here to sign up for your blog.

11/21/2005 ↓

  • $2.95 Domain Names

    $2.95 Domain Names iPower has $2.95 domain names. They will try to renew domains for $8.95 after the first term (but I would transfer to GoDaddy at that point). (8)
  • The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging

    The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging: Mostly good advice. (0)
  • Google Base blog import instructions

    Google Base blog import instructions You can add your existing content to the Google Base for broad distribution with only a few easy steps Follow Niall’s steps to make your blog content available and distributed through Google Base. (4)
  • Matt in Newsweek

    Matt in Newsweek: This article has been regurgitated in a bunch of publications, the latest of which is in a column in Newsweek. “It’s the No. 1 problem for search engines,” says Matt Mullenweg of WordPress, a blog-software service. … commenting on Splogs. (0)

11/19/2005 ↓

  • Wordpress tips for blog maintenance

    If you want to make your Blog temporarily unavailable (scheduled maintenance for example) you have two very simple and efficient ways : a plugin, or a theme. (1)
  • Hyperthreading hurts server performance

    Hyperthreading hurts server performance: With both SQL Server and Citrix Terminal Server installations, HT-enabled motherboards show markedly degraded performance under heavy load Who would have thought? ;) (0)
  • WP Hack: Server Load Graphic

    WP Hack: Server Load Graphic Show a small graphic with the server load. Requires GD. (0)

11/17/2005 ↓

Adsense featured Wordpress theme 10comments

Tim Yang and Ozh have released Problogger Clean, a clean 3 columns theme with original features mostly aimed towards Adsense.

Options are managed from an admin panel (using Wordpress Theme Toolkit) which gives the theme a lot of functionalities and customization possibilities.

The theme comes with built-in ads, so you won’t have a hard time trying to implement ads in a theme that was not designed for it. Its feature I like best : “Adsense Click Safety“, which prevents any click you could make on your own ads to be recorded, therefore to be counted as fraudulent.

Read more : Tim’s announcement, Ozh’s announcement.

11/15/2005 ↓

WP Themes: Maple Leaf, Anthosia and Blue Horizon 1comment

Kaushal has released three 2 column themes for Wordpress. They might even be fall themed.

Blue Horizon
Preview: http://www.kaushalsheth.com/index.php?wptheme=Blue+Horizon
Screenshot: http://www.kaushalsheth.com/bluehorizon.png
Download link http://www.kaushalsheth.com/bluehorizon.zip

Maple Leaf
Preview: http://www.kaushalsheth.com/index.php?wptheme=Maple+Leaf
Screenshot: http://www.kaushalsheth.com/mapleleaf.png
Download link http://www.kaushalsheth.com/mapleleaf.zip

Anthosia
Preview: http://www.kaushalsheth.com/index.php?wptheme=Anthosia
Screenshot: http://www.kaushalsheth.com/anthosia.png
Download Link http://www.kaushalsheth.com/anthosia.zip

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