I have been thinking about this post for a while. It really started to come to me after I went through a server move of my own website which I discussed on this site last month – Moving Your WordPress Site and Database. I did a lot of manual cleaning of my database to get rid of orphaned tables that had been in the database since the day I first set up a WordPress based website. The majority of these defunct tables were from either themes or plugins that I had used at different points in the life of WindowsObserver.com. As you all know you try out a lot of stuff on your site – mine had 3 years worth of it in there! Of course I had uninstalled the theme or plugin but a majority of these do not remove the information they leave in your database. Now I […]
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These WordPress themes may be tiny, but they pack a big visual punch. These themes are great for sites with audiences with limited access to broadband, or any blog that wants to focus on speed and clean design. Baughxie – a polished but very lightweight two column theme. Mini – Minimal and elegant three column theme. Simple Green – Very professional and very fast. R755 – Simple yet sophisticated. Can be either two or three columns. Swift – This is actually more of a theme framework than a theme. It has a theme options page with layout, font, and color options. Nicely done.
[Continue Reading...]Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a great weekend. Fortunately for me it is a long weekend here and I sure can use the extra day off. Here are the latest plugins fresh from the oven. New Plugins Work-from-home Projects Once activated, this plugin will create a widget displaying various work from home opportunities. From the options page you can type in your own keywords to select which opportunities to display or go with the default. The appearance of the widget is also customizable. Export OPML This plugin will export the visible items in your blogroll to a OPML file in your blog root. Then you need only create a link to it somewhere. Handy if you have a large list of links and don’t want to clutter your blog. Mouse Eye Tracking Service The plugin will tap in to PicNet’s Mouse Eye Tracking Service, a web analytics service […]
[Continue Reading...]Perennial Weblog Tools Collection community favorite Who Sees Ads can be used to show ads only to certain visitors – such as people who have arrived on your site from a search engine. It’s a useful way to improve your click-through-ratio, and please your regular readers by hiding ads from them. This is a quick introduction to using the plugin. Showing ads only to search engine visitors is extremely simple – Who Sees Ads can do much, much more. Check out the links at the end of this article for more information. NOTE: Although the plugin says it’s for WordPress 2.5, it works fine with WordPress 2.92. I haven’t been able to test it with 3.0 yet because I don’t have any 3.0 test sites indexed in any search engines yet. Anyone else know if it works with 3.0? If you don’t want to do this with a plugin, you […]
[Continue Reading...]Good morning everyone and welcome to the latest installment of WordPress Theme Releases proudly brought to you by Weblog Tools Collection. Photo Theme Photo Theme is the newest release from Blogging Inside and much like their other themes features a soothing colour palette. This theme comes with a 300px wide sidebar (perfect for your ads) and a whopping seven widgetized areas. It is also localized and comes with the language files for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Russian. Magnitade Magnitade comes to us from Jing Xuan and sports a crisp and clean look. Although it is meant to be used as a gallery theme it can easily be adapted for other purposes. It requires the WP-PostViews and WordPress Related Posts plugins to function, both of which are included in the ZIP package. Diabolique Fountain Diabolique Fountain, from Diabloique Design, is a nice looking dark theme which sports a horizontal […]
[Continue Reading...]Hello everyone. You may or may not know me. My name is Len and I normally toil away in the forums here at WLTC testing all of the theme submissions before they make it here to the main site. Our regular theme author Perurry is away for a while so I will be pulling double duty in his absence. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please feel free to drop them in the comments section below. With that said, let’s take a look at some of the latest and greatest theme releases from the WordPress community. Oceanic Flight Oceanic Flight comes to us from JB WEBDEV. It sports two widgetized sidebars, horizontal navigation above the header image and a large search box in the header area. The theme comes in a wide-screen format with its main colours being white, gray and a soothing off-brown. It is easily customizable. […]
[Continue Reading...]The three components of information security are: Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA). If you’ve followed the steps my previous tutorial, you’ll have come a long way towards ensuring all three. But you’ll always need to keep an eye on things – remember, no site is hack proof. Here are some tools to verify the integrity of your data. These plugins will not protect your site from attacks, they will only help you monitor your site and diagnose problems. I have not tested any of these with the latest WordPress 3.0 beta. Monitoring In my first article on WordPress security I mentioned Open Source Tripwire as an option for monitoring your WordPress install for unexpected changes. A reader pointed out that it wasn’t the best solution since it’s no longer maintained and suggested a couple other alternatives. Since then, I’ve discovered a much easier way of monitoring your WP install: WordPress […]
[Continue Reading...]I’ve seen a lot of “Best WordPress Plugins” lists, and there’s usually a lot of overlap on them. You don’t need me to tell you about Platinum SEO Pack, Simple Tags, and WP Super Cache. Here are a few plugins that I think deserve more attention. These will probably be more useful to power-users who really want to tweak their WordPress site, but I encourage everyone to get their hands dirty every once and a while and get creative with their installs. Unless otherwise noted, these should work with with both WordPress 2.92 and WordPress 3.0. Widget Logic This gives every widget an extra field in which you can specify WP’s conditional tags. What this means is that you can have certain widgets appear on certain pages but not others. For example, I have my blogroll set to only appear on my front page. SEO Friendly Images This plugin can […]
[Continue Reading...]You might find yourself in the situation where you only want a script to run on a certain page. In fact, it’s good practice to only load your JavaScript files when absolutely necessary; loading the files on every single page is a big no-no (I’ve been chastised before for this). While on the blog’s front-end, WordPress makes it super-easy with its conditional tags. I’m not going to go over the conditional tags here, but here are a few you can take advantage of: is_home() is_front_page() is_single() is_page() And much more. While being selective on the front-end is relatively straightforward, the admin-panel is another monster. Sure, there’s the is_admin() conditional, but what if you only want to run a script in a certain section within the admin panel? One technique is to use the PHP reserved variable called $_GET. Say you have a plugin options page with a URL of: http://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=my-plugin-file.php […]
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- Richard Hay
I have served for 26 plus years in the Navy and am a Master Chief Petty Officer. My work background in the Navy is telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well in what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena. My first website - AnotherWin95.com - came online in 1996. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and have all the GeoCities “stuff” to show for it! I have progressed from a single page, link-filled, static html page to using PHP, databases and coding to make my pages.
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