‘General’ Category

July 27th, 2008

General, WordPress Hack, WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

Image alignment within a WordPress post: WordPress 2.5 introduced floating image alignment within text on a post. This feature does not work on certain themes. Thanks to Jason for asking the question and to Sadish for the solution. Final thought: it would also be nice if a few gallery formatting options were available through the default interface instead of having to modify the shortcode and/or introduce hacks.
WordPress Search as a custom Google Search without addition page or post: Add a custom Google Search to your WordPress blog (and make search advertising dollars?) without too much of a hassle. Complete instructions and examples are included in the post.
Create a Flash Arcade site using WordPress: This set of instructions will help you convert a simple WordPress blog into a Flash arcade site. Pretty cool with detailed instructions on the transition.
Here is a tip which I stumbled upon accidentally, that is somewhat unrelated [...]

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(7 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5)

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WordCast Mugshot Contest

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Jeff Chandler

July 13th, 2008

General, WordPress

The guys and gal over at the WordCast Podcast is currently holding a Mugshot contest. The contest is all about taking a photo of your favorite mug.
Check out this awesome line up prizes:
4th Place: WordPress mug and WordPress T-shirt
3rd Place: WordPress mug, WordPress T-shirt and Lijit T-Shirt
2nd Place: WordPress mug, WordPress T-shirt, Lijit T-Shirt, signed copy of Blogging Tips: What bloggers won’t tell you about blogging, and one single-user Revolution theme license of the winners’ choice
1st Place: WordPress mug, WordPress T-shirt, Lijit T-Shirt, signed copy of Blogging Tips: What bloggers won’t tell you about blogging, one TV.Elements theme license, one single-user Revolution theme license of the winners’ choice, a free copy of The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog, and an (optional) free 30 minute consultation with Liz Strauss.
The contest is still going on with no clear indication as to when the final images will be accepted. Please [...]

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(4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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How many Queries are too many?

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Mark Ghosh

July 12th, 2008

Blogging, General, WordPress

I have been asked this question quite a few times and I never have a perfect answer. It is obviously an important question to ask but it can be answered in many different ways based on preferences, need for plugins, optimization techniques used and a variety of other factors.
Weblog Tools Collection uses a lot of plugins and is very query heavy but the in spite of that, the front page uses 59 queries to generate itself. I think the default (on a vanilla WordPress install on the default theme) is 27 or something of that nature. The larger the number of queries, the slower the page is going to load and the more load you are going to put on your MySql server. All of the above is true if you do not use inline or regenerative caching mechanisms. The caveat on this blog is that its plugins and its [...]

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(15 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5)

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Mark Ghosh

June 4th, 2008

Business of Blogging, General, WordPress

Bloggers are Dangerous: I followed a chain of posts to the Innovation Creators blog to finally find the original author of the picture below. The linked article actually talks about how bloggers are perceived to be dangerous by various companies and their executives and Rod investigates the social and technological implications of blogging on the Enterprise. If you are into that sort of thing, it might be an interesting read. However, the picture of the various blog gang signs interested me the most. Afterthought: I wish more people credited the original author instead of linking to the last place they found an article of interest, especially when there is a CC license involved. Post name via oneplusinfinity

On completely unrelated news, I found a WordPress Theme Design Book by Tessa Blakeley Silver that might be of interest to theme designers. Looks like the book is also available [...]

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(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)

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Take Crontrol Of WordPress

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Jeff Chandler

May 1st, 2008

General, WordPress, WordPress Plugins

Not too long ago, a new plugin was released called WP-Crontrol. WP-Crontrol allows you to take control over what is happening in the WP-Cron system.
WP-Cron is a tangle of black magic that allows a plugin developer or a user to schedule commands to be executed. WP-Crontrol is a plugin that lets a blog owner see through that magic and figure out what’s actually going on
If you want a detailed introduction to this plugin as well as an explanation as to how to use this plugin in conjunction with WP Database Backup to create backups when you want them, be sure to check out this article: Add a new WordPress backup schedule with WP-Crontrol
Also on the radar today is a quick fix for the WordPress 2.5.x image uploader. Awsom.org is reporting that there is a no-flash plugin that is available which returns the previous image upload function from earlier versions of [...]

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(6 votes, average: 4.83 out of 5)

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Need something designed? Crowdsource it.

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Mark Ghosh

April 29th, 2008

General, LinkyLoo, Web Ethics

99 designs is an interesting site. It fills a niche that I have carefully treaded in the past and have received negative feedback for (rightfully so). 99 Designs allows you to crowdsource your design needs. If an organization or an individual seeks a new design, they hold a “contest” of sorts using the tools built into 99 Designs and offer up some money for their project. Designers are then allowed to post entries for these and the contest holder is allowed to pick and choose the best design(s) and distribute the money based on the winning design. In the past designers have turned up their nose on design contests for a variety of reasons, most of which I agree with. However, the surprising thing about 99 Designs is the popularity of the site and the sheer number of designs that have been submitted for existing contest. Some of the work [...]

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(21 votes, average: 2.81 out of 5)

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Reset WP Password Manually

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Jeff Chandler

April 26th, 2008

General, WordPress

Although there were over 80 security/bug fixes in WordPress 2.5.1, there was one thing that crept up immediately following the release. According to numerous reports by individuals and a ticket filed in the WordPress Trac when a user resets their password, the password reset link received in the email does not work. The error message that is received looks like this “Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid.”
This bug has already been fixed and will be included in WordPress 2.5.2. However, if you are having issues with the reset link right now, you can read this post by Ryan McCue on how to Reset your WP Password Manually through phpMyAdmin.
[EDIT] Ryan has included the files which contain the patch that you can download here

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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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Excited about WordCamp Dallas

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Mark Ghosh

March 27th, 2008

General

I am excited about the upcoming WordCamp Dallas. I am hoping to meet up with quite a few people and the schedule looks interesting. I am not going to make it to DFW in time for the Friday evening mixer but I will be getting together with people later on in the night. Please send me an email or Twitter me if you are interested in getting together.
If you are at WordCamp Dallas over the weekend, be sure to say hi.

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