Thank you for your patience. The judges have been corralled for their results, the results have been tallied, public votes have been added in and tallied and we are finally ready to announce the winners of the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5 May we have a drum roll please? Thank you prizes: $10 to every participant as a thank you for their hard work and dedication. $250 prize from WPMU First Prize for the best WPMU compatible plugin from Incsub goes to Vote2Publish Consolation prize for the best WPMU compatible plugin goes to WP Wall Consolation Prize Winner is Prelovac 12 month blogclub subscription from Blogalized Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin Third Prize Winner is WP Easy Uploader $200 Country codes of the world poster Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin Second Prize Winner is Manageable $700 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas for the PC and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Copy of […]
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Smart cache-busting for your WordPress stylesheet.: If you frequently change your WordPress stylesheet or are working on it and would like your readers to pull the new stylesheet every time instead of using a cached version (which might display a borked page), this tutorial and the subsequent plugin might be for you. Alister explains the issue in detail, provides a tutorial on how to acheive the results and then with some prodding from Matt, comes up with a plugin the get the same result which does not require any modification of code.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 2.6.2.: This release is in response to a recent warning to developers from Stefan Esser about the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and weaknesses of mt_rand(). The issue at hand that forced the release is discussed in detail on the WordPress.org blog post linked above. Basically the attack is complex, is dependent on open registration being turned on in your blog, but can be executed in theory and turns out to be more of an annoyance than an actual exploit. If you have open registration on your blog, the WordPress.org team recommends that you upgrade your install to WordPress 2.6.2 A handful of other fixes are also included in this upgrade. Here is a list of changed files.
[Continue Reading...]1000 things I’ve learned about blogging from the Online Journalism Blog.: An interesting and long-ish list of lessons that the author (I could not figure out who wrote this article from their list of authors. I am assuming it was Paul Bradshaw. Multi-author blogs really, really need to think about adding the name of the author to their templates/themes.) has learned from blogging. Some of them are absolute gems such as “First knowledge, then analysis, then ideas” and “A blog without comments is broken“. More food for thought would come from the conversations surrounding such a list. I will add one of my own. If you consider others’ opinions, you will have involved and returning readers. What have you learned about blogging?
[Continue Reading...]How to make a “child theme” for WordPress. A pictorial introduction for beginners: Demetris has put together a comprehensive, step by step pictorial instruction set for creating your own Child Themes for WordPress. He assures me that the set of instructions are easy to follow. Child themes are WordPress themes that behave like parent themes (or a main theme on which the child is based) and inherits all the characteristics of parent themes including options pages. If you like a theme, want to make small changes to the way it looks but do not want to make changes to the core theme files (for future updates etc.), child themes are the way to go. Remember to send Demetris a thank you if you like the work he has put into this documentation.
[Continue Reading...]commonspace: Mark Surman, incumbent Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation is now blogging on WordPress (.com) after having mostly successfully moved his Typepad blog to WordPress. If you take a look around Mark’s blog and read his musings, the incessant flow of energy, the unending passion for the Open Source movement and the push for community, conversation and collaboration in various forms become quite evident. Good luck in him in his new position and welcome to WordPress!
[Continue Reading...]Well there are two links that showcase 11 and 10 fixes and hacks respectively. Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes: Noupe lists 11 commonly requested WordPress hacks and elegant fixes for them. They include avoiding duplicate content, having category specific menus, sidebar login boxes, most wanted categories etc. 10 WordPress Hacks to make Your Life Easy: Jai lists another 10 hacks to play with. His hack tutorials include adding gravatars to comments, Twitter, image gallery, author bio etc. Some of these are just tutorials on how features work within WordPress and how to incorporate them into existing themes while others are all our modifications of code in themes and in various other places. None of them look too difficult and some of them can be accomplished with plugins. However, all of them are worth checking out.
[Continue Reading...]Hot in the heels of our own WordPress Plugin Competition (of which the results should be declared very soon), the folks at WPMU.org are running a WordPress MU plugin competition! The competition is already very much underway, with almost US$1500 worth of prizes already pledged and 8 great plugins submitted, ranging from XML-RPC add ons to simple domain mapping. And there’s still a month to go (entries close September 24th), so get your MU hats on and submit your best and brightest! The process is much the same as at Weblog Tools Collection. Plugin authors can register at the site and write up their own plugins for publication, guidelines and more on that can be found here. Then there will be prizes (and some rather snazzy badges) for judged and peoples choice winners and ranking entries. If you’re interested in adding to the prize pool, Andrew and James would love […]
[Continue Reading...]Cut and Paste for iPhone from Cali Lewis on Vimeo. OpenClip has come up with the much desired free application framework for the iPhone to copy, cut and paste content. It works with the WordPress iPhone application by placing the copied data to a shared location in the iPhone memory which is then accessed by other applications. The application was released on GeekBrief.tv (who were at WordCamp Dallas and are WordPress aficionados) and seems to be getting a good response. Anyone test it out yet? [EDIT] As pointed out by Jason in the comments, OpenClip is not an application by itself but a framework that can be used by iPhone app developers to add the copy and paste functionality to their applications. OpenClip will only support copying and pasting of text between applications that support the OpenClip framework.
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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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