This blog is now running WordPress 2.1 Ella and I am impressed. This server was running a much older version of MySql and since Ella requires MySql 4.1 support, I could not upgrade right away. I was somewhat apprehensive of upgrading MySql on Plesk and wanted to put aside some time for the upgrade in case things went south. This morning, I upgraded MySql, this blog, all the plugins and performed some much needed tweaking and maintenance. For those that are on Plesk servers and would like some instructions on how to upgrade MySql safely, this post should help. The upgrade was simple, the instructions made sense and were complete, and the upgrade itself went without a hitch. After the upgrade, I tweaked the query cache (sorely missed in MySql 3), upped the key buffer and the thread cache sizes and optimized all the tables. I am satisfied with the […]
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Archive for January, 2007
Submission of Themes, Plugins and News: To submit themes and plugins for our daily release posts, you have the following options: Register on the News Section and post it in the appropriate forum. We have three forums for this purpose, viz. New WordPress Plugins, New WordPress Themes and WordPress News. Weblog Tools Collection Community: Be sure to register and participate in the WLTC Community site and post all your themes, plugin, news, help requests and tutorials on the Community. We already have lots of users and can’t wait to meet you there. Be sure to add our authors and contributors as friends. There are groups for WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress, Themes, Plugins and News. If you would like to create a group, you can do so after you register. Plugin Authors can submit their plugins for review by emailing submissions at wltc dot net with the subject line [New Plugin Submission] […]
[Continue Reading...]Tippy gives you a way to include highly configurable tooltips in your WordPress site. Thumbnail, based on DynamicDrive libs lets you display image links so that they popup in the same window. Preview is available on the plugin page. btc-meta lets you add html-meta description, html-meta-keywords and html-meta-robot tags to posts or pages. My Video lets you embed videos from YouTube and Google Video in your post.
[Continue Reading...]Akon is a two column, simplistic, minimalist, light colored theme for WordPress with a very nice header image. Preview here. ZedSimple is a simple one column layout. Preview FlyAway is a 2-column wordpress 2.0 theme with Custom Header support with the header wallpaper by KoL. Preview Small Potato has released three more themes viz. Quadruple Blue, Zip It and Fruitlicious
[Continue Reading...]Fast Track has been updated to support WordPress 2.1 Braille is a two column theme for WordPress and WordPress MU, which also includes a Print stylesheet. Cordobo Green Park has been updated to work with WordPress 2.0 and 2.1. It is a three column, widget ready theme for WordPress with the original template coming from chungo.net
[Continue Reading...]In her article Fear Not WordPress 2.1 and WordPress Plugins, Lorelle tries to address the fear / paranoia while upgrading to WordPress 2.1
[Continue Reading...]Alex King has updated Share This and WP-Grins. These are available on his WordPress Plugins page. Wikipedia-NoFollow will add a a rel=”nofollow” to all your outgoing links to Wikipedia. This is in retaliation to Wikipedia adding a rel=”nofollow” to outgoing links. WordPress 2.1 requires smiley codes to be followed by a whitespace character. Usmivki allows displaying smilies that are followed by non whitespace character. iMax Width sets a maximum image width so large inline images don’t mess up your wordpress theme. It also adds height and width tags to all posts so the page loads more smoothly. Simple Clan War permits you to add your clanwar results on your blog using a simple tag.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 2.1 Gotchas lets you know some of the problems you might face on upgrading to WordPress 2.1.
[Continue Reading...]Maria Langer guides you to a few steps you should follow before taking the plunge into WordPress 2.1 in her article Upgrading WordPress to 2.1: Dealing with Plugin Compatibility
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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