The new version of WordPress for iPhone (and iPod touch) app is now live and available for download in the iTunes App store. This version has a lot of fixes/enhancements that many people (including me) have been waiting for. I’ve been playing around with version 1.2 for a little bit and here are some of my first impressions. New Features (and Some Comments) Landscape mode with extra wide keyboard This is probably the most desired feature for this application simply because it is physically painful to type a full length blog post in the iPhone portrait keyboard. I am glad that the portrait keyboard restriction is now a thing of the past! Link creation help I wasn’t sure where this feature was hiding at first, but I soon found the trick to invoking this feature. Basically anytime you are writing, you can type something that resembles a link (for example […]
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Are you constantly hunting the WordPress Codex for functions and template tags? I know I spend a lot of time doing this whenever I am working on a new plugin. Andy Stratton too did the same until he created WPLookup. WPLookup will take your query and take you to the corresponding WordPress Codex documentation in the function reference and template tags reference. If your search terms are not found, it will send you directly to a documentation search for your terms. The site is very much in the nascent stages. And, I’m sure there is a lot more that can be added. One suggestion could be that instead of sending the user directly to WordPress Codex, WPLookup can generate a search results page with a link to the codex article as well a link to the function declaration in the WordPress code using PHPXref. The search results page can contain […]
[Continue Reading...]Vladimir Prevolac, the developer of several plugins and themes for WordPress has released a book titled WordPress Plugin Development (Beginners’ Guide). The book, written for anyone who wishes to author WordPress plugins, consists of eight chapters, six of which are dealing with development of actual plugins from scratch. Here’s what you can learn: Get to know the WordPress code base, WordPress’s plug-in architecture, and the plug-in application programming interface (API) and learn how to hack it Master the WordPress database and the API – access and manipulate data, handle user roles and permissions, posts, and so on Hook into the rest of WordPress using actions and filters Change the way your WordPress backend looks by customizing menus, submenus, and the plug-in admin panel Integrate AJAX and jQuery into your plug-ins to dynamically generate content Hook directly to WordPress edit pages and use AJAX to generate fast searches Integrate your plug-in […]
[Continue Reading...]The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins.: Demetris has a written a very nice, well illustrated and explained tutorial on the WordPress excerpt and how to manipulate it to take full advantage of it. WordPress excerpts, which are not excerpts, make a WordPress site easier to browse and its content easier to discover. In addition, when also used as META descriptions, good excerpts bring more and better traffic from search engines. Topics discussed include: What is the WordPress excerpt Why write excerpts in WordPress How to write excerpts WordPress Excerpt Editor Excerpts as META descriptions Notes, Miscellaneous Links In Demetris’ style, the tutorial is very well written and well fleshed out.
[Continue Reading...]I posted earlier that 2.7.1 RC1 was released for testing and now the final version of WordPress 2.7.1 is available for download / upgrade. 2.7.1 fixes 68 tickets and so is a recommended upgrade. If you already have WordPress 2.7 or 2.7.1 RC1 installed, you’ll receive an update notification that will allow you to upgrade WordPress from within WP-Admin itself. Or you can upgrade to the latest version by visiting Tools > Upgrade in WP-Admin. This will upgrade the files and the database as well in one step. If you’re using 2.6.x or below you will need to manually download and upgrade your installation of WordPress. Download WordPress 2.7.1 or check out the full set of changes between 2.7 and 2.7.1
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 2.7.1 RC1 has been released officially today as per Ryan Boren’s mail in the WP-Testers list. The following have been fixed since WP 2.7.1 Beta 1, which was released earlier this week. URL column in Edit Links removes www. from domains that end in www Theme preview fails when theme in subdirectory ‘Draft Saved’ current_time not reflecting timezone setting in the edit area Revisions do not respect time zone offset Canonical redirect of feed URLs with suffixes is wrong index.php file in the plugins folder makes the Dashboard fail With this release, we’re much closer to 2.7.1 final being made available for all users. For those interested download WordPress 2.7.1 RC1. Report any bugs in the wp-testers list.
[Continue Reading...]Scott Wallick, the author of the popular and well known Sandbox theme has announced on his personal blog that he is selling the Sandbox domain along with Plaintxt.org. The sale does not include the actual themes since they have been developed and released under the GPL license. Scott does provide a reason for why he is selling the domains: I have withdrawn from the WordPress community. Active development of my themes and plugins has stopped simply because I am unable to continue the necessary development. In a way, they have a life of their own. If you would like the opportunity to chat with Scott Wallick about his involvement with the WordPress community, be sure to tune in to this weeks episode of WordPress Weekly as he will be my special guest.
[Continue Reading...]Last week, we gave you two plugins to play with. And this week we’re back with yet another plugin. Way back in 2005, Mark released the Top 10 posts plugin that allowed you to track page views and display them on your blog post. You could also display a list of popular posts. With WordPress 2.7, a update was necessary and here it is. The Top 10 plugin for WordPress will track page views on single and post pages and store them safely in a table in the WordPress database. You can then display the count in your post automatically, or either manually. Features: Counts page views on single posts and pages Display the count on the single posts and pages Customize the text that can be displayed Display a list of popular posts by page count. The number can be customized. Clean uninstall if you choose to delete the […]
[Continue Reading...]Not that we do not hear enough of Ma.tt and his history with WordPress, but USA Today had a nice article on Matt, WordPress and his fans. Mom says her son is so focused on WordPress, “Sometimes he forgets to eat and sleep. He’s a young man in a hurry. He never stops. I keep telling him to slow down.” Also of interest, via a review on Mashable, is of a service called Errorlytics. It is a 404 redirect service that lets a website owner track 404 page hits, transparently redirect 404 pages to other content within a blog and/or website and possibly increases pageviews and SEO. They have a custom WordPress plugin for the purpose and the service is free for one domain and 5 rules. Now is it worth it? I will never use it because I do not want to depend on another remotely hosted service for […]
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- Thaya Kareeson
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