Archive for June, 2008
So far, there are two excellent performance enhancing caching solutions available for WordPress, WP-Cache and WP-SuperCache. Both do an awesome job of caching posts/pages to help keep your website from falling off the map in the middle of a Digg effect. Now, there is a new entrant in the caching arena called Batcache which was created by Andy Skelton. This plugin is meant to be used in situations where file-based caching is either not practical, or is not desired. According to Andy, development testing showed a 40x reduction in the time it took to generate pages. Pages that were generated in 200ms ended up being served from the cache in only 5ms. Batcache uses Memcached to store and serve rendered pages. It’s not as fast as Donncha’s WP-Super-Cache but it can be used where file-based caching is not practical or not desired. The basic premise of the plugin works similar […]
[Continue Reading...]That if you change your URI after a post has been published, the old URI continues to work while the links are changed to the new one?
[Continue Reading...]Two Column Themes Natural Power Natural Power is a two column theme, widget ready, that comes with four different colored header graphics that can easily be changed in the options panel included with the theme. Blue Block Blue Block is a two column widget-ready theme. The theme comes build in with banner ad integration. The content are is quite smaller compared to other two column themes. CheckMate CheckMate is a two column theme with 10 widgetized areas. The themes comes with 7 color options. Out of the Box Out of the Box is a two column widget ready theme. The theme has a widgetized sidebar and footer area along with Gravatar support for WordPress 2.5 and above. TechJunkie TechJunkie is a two column widget-ready theme with 4 widgetized areas including 3 in the footer. The theme comes built in with Gravatar support. Whisky Air Whisky Air is a two column […]
[Continue Reading...]Reader John writes in: How does one use paging with an offset? Doing so breaks the navigation controls. The problem with using an offset in a query is that WordPress ignores any reference to paging. In other words, you can use an offset and paging, but not both together. This can be solved by tapping into the post_limits filter. Step 1: Add the ‘my_post_limit’ Function The my_post_limit function is what the post_limits filter will use to update the standard loop query. We’ll use the function to use paging and offsets together. This function should be placed in your theme’s functions.php file. function my_post_limit($limit) { global $paged, $myOffset; if (empty($paged)) { $paged = 1; } $postperpage = intval(get_option('posts_per_page')); $pgstrt = ((intval($paged) -1) * $postperpage) + $myOffset . ', '; $limit = 'LIMIT '.$pgstrt.$postperpage; return $limit; } //end function my_post_limit Step 2: Add the Filter Reference <?php add_filter('post_limits', 'my_post_limit'); ?> <div id="recent"> […]
[Continue Reading...]One Column Themes WP Pix WP Pix is a one column theme with no sidebars. The theme can be use by photo bloggers. The theme comes in with two different page templates one for displaying a blog and another for displaying portfolios. Two Column Themes Happy Cyclope Happy Cyclope is a 2 column widget-ready theme. The theme is easy-to-customize, and displays the category pages and archives as lists. Big Brain Big Brain is a two column widget-ready theme. As the name suggests there is image of big brain in the header. The theme also uses bigger fonts for post titles and content. Ndomche Summary Ndomche Summary is a two column theme. The theme has a grid based style and has only been tested with WordPress 2.5 and above. Aurora Aurora is a two column widget-ready colors. The theme makes use of dark colors. Elegant Elegant is a pleasant looking […]
[Continue Reading...]. . . and growing! We have had a couple of really large (Thanks to Matt and Automattic for their generous contributions towards the competition) and some smaller donations towards the final set of prizes for the plugin competition with the total purse standing at over $3500 dollars. Thanks to everyone who has donated money and time towards the competition to help make it a success. The community really appreciates your involvement. We continue to look for donations and sponsors to make the pot sweeter. This is your chance to not only showcase your work to the WordPress community but to also win fabulous cash prizes. If you are planning on releasing a plugin for the competition, head over to the plugin competition blog, register yourself and post about your plugin there. We have had a spat of registrations but the number of announcements on the blog has been much […]
[Continue Reading...]This post is based on a question that was posted on reddit.com which really intrigued me. I have seen a lot of WordPress blogs that are so simple and so well constructed that they blew me away and inspired me to do more to make my blogs simple(r). I just have a hard time finding them when the time is right and I am about to make changes to my designs. In that spirit, what is the simplest and most elegant WordPress design that you have come across? Lloyd’s blog comes to mind as a good example.
[Continue Reading...]For those of you who may not have heard, it was recently discovered that the popular All In One SEO Plugin for WordPress would be no longer updated or supported past WordPress 2.5.1. The plugin is currently compatible with 2.5.1 but may not work with future versions of WordPress. However, I have managed to get a hold of the plugin author and he informed me that he believes the plugin will not die. He is currently in discussions with a number of other developers to continue maintenance of the plugin. He also expressed interest in the idea of having the plugin integrated into the core of WordPress. *UPDATE* It looks like the plugin has found a new home. A WordPress.org user who goes by the username hallsofmontezuma who is also the plugin author of the WP Security Scan plugin as well as the SMS Text Message plugin has taken over […]
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Comment License Made Easy
Not too long ago, I published a post which dove into the controversial subject of comment ownership and I must say, you guys and gals came up with quite a bit of discussion points. In that post, here is how I described my position on the matter: I don’t believe a commenting bill of rights needs to be created in which all blogs should follow. However, I do think that each blogger should create and make publicly accessible a commenting policy. This policy should clearly explain what you as the blog author will do with comments posted on your site, who retains ownership of those comments and explain circumstances which would require you to edit an end user’s comment. For those of you that agree, I’d like to draw your attention to Alex King’s Comment License WordPress plugin. This plugin makes it as easy as 1 2 3 to add […]
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