Matt has put together a tool to easily access (most) of the WordPress.org Plugin stats API using a simple GET string. It returns data back as JSON, and you can see the docs + example at http://api.uproot.us Though the functionality is dependent on the future availability of the endpoint at uproot.us (I wish the source for the API was available), I can see lots of possibilities for plugin developers. Drew has put together a tutorial to optimize your Apache VPS for WordPress that is worth a looksee if you are running a small VPS and need that extra oomph. Lastly, via Zedomax, I came upon a small tweak for MySql that could (and has in my case) dramatically improve MySql performance. Check out Angsuman’s tip and explanation if you are interested. Be forewarned that this might have other impacts on your MySql depending on the amount and type of load […]
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Archive for 2009
There are a number of options available to publish articles to your blog outside of your WordPress Write panel such as through XML-RPC via a third party blogging client or through an application such as the one available for the iPhone. However, did you know that you can also publish posts through email? It’s true! The feature has been around for quite some time. For how long I’m not sure because I was unable to track down when it became a core feature but it looks like it has been around since 1.5 or below. For directions on how to use this unique feature, I recommend reading this comprehensive article on the Codex entitled Blog By Email. Posting by email in WordPress is limited to pretty much text only. Common HTML tags are stripped and attachments that are sent with the email will appear in their raw form in the […]
[Continue Reading...]Web Minimalist Web Minimalist 200901 is a minimalist, imageless, three column, widget and gravatar ready WordPress Theme from WebMinimalist.com. This theme is supporting threaded comments for WordPress 2.7. Buddhism Two column, widget and tag ready theme. Black and White 2 columns, Fixed width, Widget ready, Right sidebar, Black, White Pickle Green, Grey, 2-3 Column, Widget Ready, Gravatar ready theme Gear Two columns, widget ready theme. Includes a very customizable banner. Change visibility, banner’s image (includes 6 variations: gear, bird, bulb, user, user2, binoculars), text through an options page. You may also change theme’s background with available 8 patterns. Compatible with WordPress 2.7. Uchilla Two column widget ready theme Wind Blow Fixed width, two column, widget and gravatar ready WordPress theme available in three styles: Sea Wind, Nature Wind and Night Wind.
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Thumb Finder It’s purpose is to replace the Image function currently used in your theme with one that is lot more clever. With these new functions available you can do everything from a randomly select an image, or return a URL or IMG tag source specifically for that post. Tweetbacks This plugin imports those tweets about your posts as comments. You can display them in between the other comments on your blog, or display them separately. Anti-AdBlock This plugin displays a notification message to visitors with AdBlock on, humbly asking them to turn it off. Session Manager A Plugin to give the administrators some simple page hit stats that aren’t at all confusing. SB Child List A Plugin to introduce some shortcodes to use on parent pages which give dynamic information on it’s children Custom Excerpts Custom Excerpts allows you to create a custom excerpt length, choose HTML […]
[Continue Reading...]Google Open Source Blog: Google Blog Converters 1.0 Released: Blogger (now) allows users the ability to export all contents of their blog, the Data Liberation team would like to announce the Google Blog Converters project. This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service. This initial release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress. This is after Google decided to allow Blogger users to import and export data from Blogger.
[Continue Reading...]The second plugin in our weekly plugin review series is not a one that helps you win over a few visitors who arrive from search engines and other sites. What is Referrer Detector? Referrer Detector is a WordPress Plugin that displays a greeting message to visitors that come from different urls (known as referrers). For example, you may want to welcome Diggers with a message that reminds them to digg your story, or you may want to ask Del.icio.us users to bookmark your post, and so on. Features A pure AJAXed admin interface with elements tidily divided into tabs. Entries can be added/modified/(de)activated/deleted without the need to reload the entire page, or even with just one click. The greet box position can be set to before or after the post. A [custom tag] can also be used in case you don’t want to show greetings on every post. Users can […]
[Continue Reading...]Golf Simple, three-column free WordPress theme with golf imagery. The background and header images of this free theme for WordPress display images related to golfing. This is a great WordPress theme for golf blogs and bloggers who are golf enthusiasts. Zeofire Brown Three column, brown WordPress theme optimized with 8 widget ready advertising spots. I Heart PC I Heart PC is a 3 column theme, that comes in blue, white and red. It’s widget and gravatar ready, with fixed width. Looks best at resolutions of minimum 1024×768. WP Themes Magazine Wp-Themes Magazine is a magazine style two column WordPress Theme designed to load fast with NO graphics contained. Very easy to customize and ready for advertisement management from the theme custom options menu. The homepage featured content also can be easily be customized from the theme’s menu. Blue Lite Two column, widget ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible with theme with nice […]
[Continue Reading...]Joining me this week on WordPress Weekly was Douglas Bell who operates Webmacster87.info as well as hosts the PHPBBWeekly podcast. In this episode, David and I chatted about a number of subjects including: WordPress User Interface History BBPress PHPBB3 The possibilities of the WordPress team working with PHPBB to develope a bridge between the two Security of PHPBB3 and WordPress And a whole lot more. While PHPBB and WordPress are two different pieces of open source software serving different needs, I find it interesting to discuss the differences in strategy as well as the similarities between the two. Plugin Of The Week: Maintenance Mode – Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. When the maintenance mode is activated, a custom defined message is shown to site visitors Announcements: […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins WP-Admin Quick Links WP Admin Quicklinks is a very simple little WordPress plugin that adds an intelligent, unobtrusive little admin panel to the top-right of all your site’s pages and posts giving you shortcuts to the most commonly used WP Admin sections. Mailto-staff For multi-author blogs. Plugin generates mailto links on the dashboard referring to all user groups of the blog. Quite handy way of internal staff communication. WordPress PageRank Widget Plugin Allows you to display a PageRank badge as a widget. It is much more convenient than having modify your templates to include such a badge. It can be used either at a page/post level, or a top site level. Is Child Of This plugin implements a function called ‘is_child_of’, which can check if a page is a descendant page of another page, regardless of how many levels there are in between them. Tweet Stats Tweet Stats […]
[Continue Reading...]About the Author
- 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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