WordPress 2.6 introduced a post revisions feature, which automatically saves a draft as you begin to write a post or page and saves a revision for each change made afterwards. That’s right, every time you make even the slightest alteration to a post or page, a new revision is saved. Now don’t get me wrong, this is an incredibly useful feature, especially if you accidentally cut half of your post during a late night edit or lose power while composing your latest masterpiece, but these revisions can slowly build up in your database. If it’s been a few days since you’ve last edited your blog, chances are that you don’t need to keep any revisions around, and they’re probably just siting in your database taking up space and growing cobwebs. To remove all of your revisions safely without harming your published posts and pages, backup your database, then use either […]
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WordPress.com and Windows Live are partnering together and providing an upgrade for 30 million Windows Live Spaces customers. This partnership was announced at TechCrunch Disrupt. You can read more about the partnership, the Windows Live Spaces importer for WordPress.com, the added ability to Publicize on Messenger on the WordPress.com blog. Via: Windows Team Blog.
[Continue Reading...]Art Simple Black is a black simple widget ready WordPress theme with two columns, fixed-width, valid XHTML and a right sidebar. BirdSITE is a simple photo blogging theme for WordPress. Langit Biru is a smooth blue 3 column fixed css layout theme. Ultra is a black simple widget ready WordPress theme with two columns, fixed-width, valid XHTML and a right sidebar.
[Continue Reading...]Microsoft recently released a public beta of their newest web browser, IE9, that has quickly become very popular. In its first 48 hours of availability it was downloaded 2 million times. You know what that means – more users are visiting your WordPress site using IE9 everyday. So why not take advantage of a feature that combines new capabilities in IE9 and the Windows 7 Taskbar to ask visitors to place a permanent link to your site on their Windows 7 Taskbar? Some real quick background. On the Windows 7 Taskbar any icon that is placed there can be programmed by the software’s author to have interactive menu items on what is called a Jumplist. This Jumplist typically contains shortcuts to program features and commands to provide quick access to them. Well with the introduction of IE9 webpages can have code added to them that will allow a visitor to […]
[Continue Reading...]If you’re writing or editing your new WordPress plugin or theme, and you’re in need of a handy repository of cool and popular code snippets, WordPress Snippets is the place for you! Let’s pretend that you needed a way to identify logged in users. You could hunt through the Codex for this function, or go to WordPress Snippets and quickly find this straight forward snippet. The incredibly simple WordPress Snippets is currently packed with forty-six useful code snippets, it appears to be growing steadily, and feedback and suggests are welcome.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Bungie.net Tools is a series of shortcodes for adding information from Bungie.net to WordPress sites. Haiku is an exceptionally simple HTML5-based audio player that inserts a text link to control playback. ImageMagick Engine improves the quality of re-sized images by replacing standard GD library with ImageMagick. Ozh’ Tweet Archiver allows you to import and archive your tweets and convert #hashtags into post tags. Simple URLs is a complete URL management system that allows you create, manage, and track outbound links from your site. Updated plugins DukaPress allows you to easily set up a fully featured online shop which can be used to sell digital or physical goods to customers all over the world. Facebook Like for Tags allows you to connect with your audience for ongoing updates and sharing based on user interest. Google Scribe allows you to enable Google Scribe on the WordPress comment input box. OSM […]
[Continue Reading...]There are many gallery plugins out there for WordPress, but did you know that WordPress has had its own gallery system since the release of version 2.5 over two years ago? To get started with a native WordPress gallery, you’ll need to create or edit the post or page that you want the gallery to appear in and then click the “Add an Image” button. You can use this to upload all of your images at full size and WordPress will automatically generate the various sizes (including thumbnails) for you. Now, it’s important to note that once you add an image via this method while writing or editing a post or page, it will be assigned to that specific post or page, which is how WordPress keeps track of the gallery’s content. Once you have uploaded all the desired images, click the “Add an Image” button again, select the “Gallery” tab, […]
[Continue Reading...]I saw a similar post on the LinkedIn WordPress Group posted by Mary Ann and I was intrigued. So without further ado, I would love to read about and be linked to The Top 5 Plugins that you WordPress Genuises use in every one of your WordPress installs and why are they so important to you?
[Continue Reading...]Deep Blue is an amazing blue style theme for WordPress with a theme options interface. Gamelan is a unique style with a custom image header, custom background, and more. News is an advanced news theme created to highlight articles, videos, slideshows, and other media.
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- James
James began using WordPress in 2004. Being new to WordPress (and blogging in general), he quickly found the WordPress Support Forums and basically never left. James currently resides in sunny Southern California, where he enjoys bringing happiness to millions of WordPress.com users.
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