http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ Weblogtoolscollection News Forum: Wordpress News en Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:22:28 +0000 http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wordpress-development-with-netbeans-ide-65-for-php#post-3529 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:02:32 +0000 GDragoN 3529@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>I have posted an article about using new NetBeans IDE 6.5 for WordPress theme and plugin development:</p> <p><a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/11/22/wordpress-and-netbeans-ide/" rel="nofollow">http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/11/22/wordpress-and-netbeans-ide/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/how-to-add-dashboard-widgets-to-your-plugin-in-wp-27#post-3516 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:52:50 +0000 johnkolbert 3516@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>WordPress 2.7 introduces some new (currently undocumented) functions for adding dashboard widgets to the administrative dashboard. This screencasts details how to add them into your plugin for seamless WP 2.7 integration.</p> <p><a href="http://www.techlyzer.com/2008/11/adding-dashboard-widgets-to-your-plugin-in-wp-27/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techlyzer.com/2008/11/adding-dashboard-widgets-to-your-plugin-in-wp-27/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/fix-your-blog-javascript-problems-1#post-3513 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:37:31 +0000 GDragoN 3513@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>I have writen small tutorial about finding javascript bugs on the blog using Firefox with Firebug:</p> <p><a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/11/16/fix-your-blog-javascript/" rel="nofollow">http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/11/16/fix-your-blog-javascript/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/fix-your-blog-javascript-problems#post-3512 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:36:56 +0000 GDragoN 3512@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>I have writen small tutorial about finding javascript bugs on the blog using Firefox with Firebug:</p> <p><a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/11/16/fix-your-blog-javascript/" rel="nofollow">http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/11/16/fix-your-blog-javascript/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/how-to-create-the-click-038-drag-options-boxes-in-wp-27#post-3502 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:30:54 +0000 johnkolbert 3502@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Just thought plugin developers would be interested in knowing exactly how to make their plugins use the native click-&#38;-drag features on the "Add New Post" and "Add New Page" screens in WP 2.7. The boxes can also be hidden using the native "Screen Options" menu!</p> <p>Here's a video tutorial along with a downloadable example:</p> <p><a href="http://www.techlyzer.com/2008/11/creating-click-drag-options-boxes-in-wp-27/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techlyzer.com/2008/11/creating-click-drag-options-boxes-in-wp-27/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/definitive-guide-to-sticky-posts-in-wordpress-27#post-3500 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:27:03 +0000 nathanrice 3500@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>If anyone is interested in learning everything there is to know about the new Sticky Post feature in WordPress 2.7, take a look at this post I wrote:</p> <p><a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/definitive-sticky-posts-guide-for-wordpress-27/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/definitive-sticky-posts-guide-for-wordpress-27/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wordpress-bug-tags-do-not-appear-under-wp_query#post-3485 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:33:43 +0000 banago 3485@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>WordPress has been perfect and bug-free for me. However, I discovered one lately. Firstly I came across this bug when I was developing an Gawker-style WordPress theme for a client of mine. I used custom WP_Query loops several times there and I was asked to display tags inside them too, the way Gawker does. This did not happen, of course, that is why I am writing this post. By that time I thought it was my fault that tags did not appear.</p> <p>A couple of weeks ago, I coded a new theme for my blog. I used several custom loops there too, powered by the famous WP_Query. When I tried again to show the tags inside them, they did not show up. That made assured me that it was a bug. To have more context about this, please have a look at the following WordPress loop:</p> <p>For more: <a href="http://www.wplancer.com/wordpess-bug-tags-do-not-appear-under-wp_query/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wplancer.com/wordpess-bug-tags-do-not-appear-under-wp_query/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/want-to-promote-your-wordpress-theme#post-3438 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:26:38 +0000 fireboat786 3438@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>I have a site getting 10K page views per month. If you are interested in promoting either a free or a paid theme or plugin, I am willing to open the site up to some authors. You will then be allowed to post to this blog (wordpress). Your post will appear on the normal blog. Your posts should be relevant/to the point/ and theme/plugin related. I will retain editorial rights.<br /> Email me if interested, and I can let you know the site.<br /> <a href="mailto:info@minivanused.com">info@minivanused.com</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/how-to-create-premium-wordpress-theme-using-custom-wordpress-queries#post-3410 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:00:20 +0000 magznetwork 3410@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>There are so many “premium” wordpress theme designer today. But, do you wanna create your own premium wordpress theme? It’s easy! You only have to know about custom wordpress queries.</p> <p>Read this article here,<br /> <a href="http://www.magznetwork.com/tutorials/how-to-create-premium-wordpress-theme-using-custom-wordpress-queries.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.magznetwork.com/tutorials/how-to-create-premium-wordpress-theme-using-custom-wordpress-queries.html</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wpscoop-wordpress-social-bookmarking-and-news#post-3383 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:28:13 +0000 Stuart 3383@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>At the beginning of september a new social news and bookmarking services titled WPscoop launched for wordpress related content.</p> <p>So what is WPscoop?</p> <p>Wpscoop can be best described as a social news website dedicated to everything wordpress covering topics such as News, Themes, Plugins, Resources and Tutorials. The news system works very much like you would expect from a social news websites, members can submit content to WPscoop which other members can then vote upon or comment upon. Only the most popular content gets promoted to the mainpage.</p> <p>Some Features</p> <p>Submitting content to WPscoop has been made easier with some nice tools like a browser submit button, firefox submit plugin and a wordpress plugin for bloggers. Once content has been submitted to WPscoop users can then vote upon or comment upon that content with the most popular being published to the main page. Voting is an up and down process and if a submission is voted negatively enough it will never be published according to the algorithm. Unlike some other social news systems members can clearly see who voted their story up or down and this is indicated by an arrow on the submissions who voted page, so no anonymous burying of stories at WPscoop.</p> <p>Members can also report a submission as being spam or for any other site infraction, after an undisclosed number of reports the story is automatically removed from the site and held for staff review. If the submission is found to be in breach of site guidelines it is removed/deleted completely, if the submission is found to be in line with site guidelines it is made accessible again to the members. Members also have the option to save content, this makes locating you favourite submissions easier and more organized.</p> <p>Each member at WPscoop gets a profile which provides information about themselves along with their actions on the site, you can add friends to your profile and private message other members, we are currently testing other social features like Groups, Forums, Job Board and have recently implemented a Member Affinity system. Member Affinity logs and calculates your actions on the site then matches you against other users with similar interests.</p> <p>WPscoop is a great resource for finding and collating all the good wordpress content that is published weekly on the web, it can also help bloggers to receive more traffic to there wordpress related posts.</p> <p><a href="http://wpscoop.com" rel="nofollow">http://wpscoop.com</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/mysql-is-the-machine-behind-developer-needs-our-help#post-3371 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:36:12 +0000 MonikaTS 3371@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Without MySql we can't use WP. MySQl is open source like WP and we are all a piece of the open source community. MySql developer Andrii Nikitin needs our help for his son.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mysql.com/about/help-ivan.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mysql.com/about/help-ivan.html</a></p> <p> I think it is a form of *thank you* if we donate so we have enough money to donate. spread the words please</p> <p>regards<br /> Monika </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wordpress-and-greasemonkey-competition#post-3274 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:42:31 +0000 epicalex 3274@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>I would like to announce the start of the WordPress and Greasemonkey script competition.</p> <p>The competition will be running for one month, and more information can be found at <a href="http://epicalex.com/wordpress-greasemonkey-competition/" rel="nofollow">http://epicalex.com/wordpress-greasemonkey-competition/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/solution-to-wordpress-updates-038-compatibility#post-3256 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:11:17 +0000 dcole07 3256@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Jeff Chandler brought up the WordPress update problem in <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/24/stop-blaming-the-wordpress-team/" rel="nofollow">http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/08/24/stop-blaming-the-wordpress-team/</a> This problem of plugins and themes trying to stay up-to-date with WordPress and it's new codex is a challenge, but there is a way to make it easier for whom ever is updating WordPress extensions. Extension developers should not use WordPress Codex directly, but use a reference file to convert from WP codex to personal function. Read more about it at <a href="http://ledgerpad.ath.cx/ideas/wordpress-codex-reference-file/" rel="nofollow">http://ledgerpad.ath.cx/ideas/wordpress-codex-reference-file/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/httptechblissonlinecombroken-links-remover-wordpress-plugin-faqs#post-3254 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:42:19 +0000 gestroud 3254@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Here's one from WP<br /> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-links-remover/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-links-remover/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/httptechblissonlinecombroken-links-remover-wordpress-plugin-faqs#post-3252 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:45:56 +0000 Ajay 3252@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Link? </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/httptechblissonlinecombroken-links-remover-wordpress-plugin-faqs#post-3235 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:05:00 +0000 RajeshBabu 3235@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Broken links remover wordpress plugin - Version 1.2 has been released.The plugin has a wide variety of super optimized options and you will love this version of broken links remover plugin. </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wp-26-security-check-before-the-upgrade#post-3227 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:55:25 +0000 UseShots 3227@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>For some reason the WordPress Exploit Scanner has not still been updated to work with WP 2.6(.1).<br /> However it still works. It just reports one more false positive: "<em>Text/Diff/Engine/shell.php</em>" as this file uses the Unix <em>diff</em> program via <em>shell_exec</em>. </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/show-latest-comments-for-each-post-on-main-page#post-3176 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:22:19 +0000 flisterz 3176@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Learn how to show recent comment(s) from each of your blog post, on the main page, for example under the posts.<a href="http://www.flisterz.com/2008/08/09/wordpress-show-latest-comments-for-each-post-on-main-page/"> Read more.</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/how-to-collapse-empty-wordpress-widget-ready-areas-038-sidebars#post-3155 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:06:32 +0000 ThemeShaper 3155@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Brief outline, with code examples, of how to collapse, or remove, widget-ready areas and only load them <em>if</em> a widget has been added to them.</p> <p><a href="http://themeshaper.com/collapsing-wordpress-widget-ready-areas-sidebars/">Collapsing WordPress Widget-Ready Areas &#38; Sidebars</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/interview-with-sunny-nathan-from-headsetoptions#post-3091 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:41:29 +0000 davidspan 3091@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>A short, fun Interview with Sunny Nathan<br /> <a href="http://myblogit.net/2008/07/22/interview-with-sunny-nathan-from-headsetoptions/" rel="nofollow">http://myblogit.net/2008/07/22/interview-with-sunny-nathan-from-headsetoptions/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/talk-wordpress-with-prologue#post-3052 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:32:13 +0000 Truden 3052@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Somehow I got in love with Prologue theme and decided to play with it.<br /> I even set a test weblog and gave it a name "Talk WordPress".</p> <p>I don't really hope that it will become popular as a WordPress Talk weblog, but you can visit it, say few words and feel the taste of Prologue ;) </p> <p>I'll talk to you here: <a href="http://talk.wordpress.mu" rel="nofollow">http://talk.wordpress.mu</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wp-26-security-check-before-the-upgrade#post-3042 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:24:03 +0000 UseShots 3042@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p><strong>Correction</strong>: The <a href="http://unmaskparasites.com">Unmask Parasites</a> service was release on July 1, 2008 (not 2007). </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wp-26-security-check-before-the-upgrade#post-3035 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:16:23 +0000 UseShots 3035@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>WordPress 2.6 is out. It's time to upgrade.</p> <p>Just don't forget to run a security check before the upgrade.</p> <p>When you are upgrading a compromised blog, the new version will remain<br /> compromised. Hackers can leave a backdoor script, create a new user or<br /> steal your admin's password. This way even the very new and secure<br /> WordPress 2.6 can be exploited. </p> <p>Here are two relatively new tools to help you:</p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/exploit-scanner/"><strong>WordPress Exploit Scanner</strong></a> - This plugin searches the files and database of your website for signs of suspicious activity. It will not stop someone hacking into your site, but it may help you find any uploaded or compromised files left by the hacker.</p> <p>Current version 0.1 (released on June 26, 2008) was designed for WordPress 2.5.1. So use it before the upgrade and then deactivate. You can use it with WordPress 2.6 but it may report more false positives. I guess we can expect a new version of the plugin pretty soon.</p> <p>By the way, this plugin displays warnings for its own file. Just skip<br /> warnings for <em>exploit-scanner.php</em> - the plugin finds its own list of suspicious strings.</p> <p>Another false positive is <em>PSpellShell.php</em> file from the original TinyMCE package.</p> <p>If the plugin reports other files - take a closer look at them. </li> <li>If you don't feel like installing anything or your current WP version is not 2.5.1, you can try the <a href="http://unmaskparasites.com"><strong>Unmask Parasites</strong></a> online service to check individual web pages for hidden illicit content (i.e. invisible spam links, malicious scripts and redirects).<br /> This simple service is in its beta stage (released on July 1, 2007). Since it doesn't have access to your server, it can only reveal exploits visible in the HTML source code of your web pages.</li> </ul> <p>Both tools can reveal most common types of WordPress exploits but don't guarantee 100% accuracy of their tests. And they won't remove anything. However, in the world where thousands of WordPress blogs have been compromised and exploited by hackers, the security check step is a must and these tool do their best to help you.</p> <p>Happy upgrade!</p> <p>P.S. If you know other similar tools, leave their links in this thread. </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/how-to-create-wordpress-themes-from-scratch-part-1#post-3030 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:43:55 +0000 kailoon 3030@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>I’m going to show you how to create a wordpress theme from scratch in these 3 parts of tutorial series. I will cover from Structuring, designing in Photoshop, slicing, coding into fully css based html, and finally wordpress implementation.</p> <p><a href="http://themetation.com/how-to-create-wordpress-themes-from-scratch-part-1/"> How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch Part 1</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/force-firefox-to-display-your-full-wordpress-feeds#post-3015 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:03:09 +0000 awflasher 3015@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Thanks .</p> <p>I am actually seeking for this :) </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/force-firefox-to-display-your-full-wordpress-feeds#post-3014 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:26:25 +0000 rahul 3014@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>There is a problem (or feature) in Firefox. For wordpress blogs and few other feeds it always show partial content making it hard to judge for a wannabe subscriber whether your are displaying full feed or partial feed.</p> <p>Many subscribers just hate partial feeds and most of them are unaware of this default firefox behavior.</p> <p>As a blogger if you care about your subscriber count, you can use this hack to force firefox to display your original full feed.</p> <p><strong>Details are at:<br /> <a href="http://www.devilsworkshop.org/2008/07/11/force-firefox-to-display-your-full-feeds-wordpress-hack/" rel="nofollow">http://www.devilsworkshop.org/2008/07/11/force-firefox-to-display-your-full-feeds-wordpress-hack/</a><br /> </strong><br /> <em><br /> [p.s. I don't know if external links allowed here but above is highly relevant.]<br /> </em> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wordpress-exploit#post-2984 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:15 +0000 noreason 2984@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Well, it’s about a Wordpress exploit based on the website cookie, who is very complex and very good made after my oppinion. It’s enough intelligent to make an SQL injection into the database of the blog, to create an invisible user to those who have javascript enabled on their browsers at a simple check on Dashboard-&gt;Users, to verify on the server the directories and files chmoded 777, too lookup and execute files with group and root provilleges. Don’t know the name of the exploit and I see there are quite little articles about it although there are a lot of blogs infected.</p> <p>Read more about it here: <a href="http://www.bloggerguide.net/blog-platform/wordpress/wordpress-exploit-giving-backlinks-redirects-and-headaches-but-no-visitors/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloggerguide.net/blog-platform/wordpress/wordpress-exploit-giving-backlinks-redirects-and-headaches-but-no-visitors/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/how-to-effectively-highlight-your-post-edits#post-2981 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:46:03 +0000 epicalex 2981@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>After writing a post and publishing it, it often becomes necessary to add to or alter something in the post. But how do you let your readers know what was added later, without those edits becoming lost in the rest of the post? </p> <p>This tutorial guides you through the process.<br /> <a href="http://epicalex.com/effectively-highlight-your-post-edits/" rel="nofollow">http://epicalex.com/effectively-highlight-your-post-edits/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/anatomy-lesson-wp-magazine-themes#post-2975 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:21:17 +0000 davidspan 2975@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>A post by Lisa Sabin-Wilson that breaks down and goes it to great detail describing WP magazine themes. Includes is a PowerPoint presentation detailing the needed code to design your own.</p> <p><a href="http://myblogit.net/2008/06/13/wordpress-magazine-themes-quick-anatomy-lesson/" rel="nofollow">http://myblogit.net/2008/06/13/wordpress-magazine-themes-quick-anatomy-lesson/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/win-3-custom-wordpress-themes#post-2954 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:06:52 +0000 SorelMihai 2954@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>We, at DailyWP.net, are starting our first contest:<br /> <strong>Theme Ideas Contest</strong></p> <p><strong><em>How to enter</em></strong><br /> Leave a comment <a href="http://www.dailywp.com/wordpress-themes-ideas-contest/">here</a> or write a post on your blog linked to <a href="http://www.dailywp.com/wordpress-themes-ideas-contest/">this</a> post about an idea for a free wordpress theme.</p> <p>We will choose 3 ideas and award them.</p> <p><strong><em>What are the prizes?</em></strong></p> <p>You can win 3 custom wordpress themes, made special for you with full rights, so you will be able to give them as free, for example. </p>