The Blogging Essay Competition ended on January 14th but I have been giving the latest few entries some time to catch up in the number of votes. People were still voting on the entries till about a week ago when interest dropped. If you have not read through the entries or voted, I am sure the authors would appreciate your encouragement. I will tally the results at the end of this week and post the winners on Sunday. If I have not said so already, thank you for your participation. [EDIT] Since there is some confusion, we are not extending the competition, but extending the judging time to get all the entries similar exposure to reader reviews.
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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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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] […]
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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
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30 WP Themes in 30 Days “Small potato” wants to develop 30 new WordPress themes in 30 days and calls it the “Ridiculously Mind-Numbing WordPress Self-Challenge”. It probably would be, considering the rules that he has set for himself and his limitations that he admits to on the post. Something like this has been attempted before by Phu with a lot of success. However, in looking through the existing themes that he has developed and offered for free download to WordPress users, I think he can do it with a little encouragement from all of us. Even if he is not completely successful, he will learn a lot and will provide a lot for the WordPress community (and receive a lot of attention) Thanks to Lorelle for finding the post, who is also blogging for the Blog Herald.
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AdSense with other Contextual Ads Allowed Jensense is reporting that Google AdSense TOS now allows contextual ads from other providers with certain limitations. However, Yahoo (YPN) is still not a viable option since their TOS does not fit.
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DiggProof your WordPress A close look at optimizing and tweaking your MySql database for WordPress and other tips and plugins to make your WordPress blog faster than it already is. Even though WordPress is fast in its own right, this article is geared for high traffic blogs and especially those that run WordPress on smaller Virtual Private Servers. While we are on the subject of optimizations, the newly released WordPress 2.1 Ella has introduced many code and query optimizations that should make WordPress much faster than it already was. For example, one of the changes introduced to handle future posts gives the database the ability to cache more queries at the MySql level and should reduce load on the database server (however minuscule).
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WP Extension: WP-Manage This extension (or hack) for WordPress allows for backup and upgrade of WordPress from inside its own interface. I am not sure why it was not integrated into the WordPress admin though it does honor the WordPress user profile. It uses special Zip and Mysql backup backup classes from inside PHP and does not require the use or permission of passthu(). As an FYI (since my backup plugin had the vulnerability), the backup files created are still world readable and though the filenames are random, there is an element of risk involved. The upgrade feature, albeit cool, might be a bit dangerous if not coupled with the backup.
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Calm: Two column, light blue, simple, minimalist, soothing, left sidebar theme for WordPress with a very unique header image (has a picture of what I assume is a moon jellyfish). Demo here. Pink Sunset is a clean pink two column layout made by Arcsin. The Unwakeable WordPress theme and is a combination of K2 0.9.1 and Unsleepable 2.0. Vengeance is a theme with a red, black, and white color scheme.
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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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