If you post code on your WordPress blog, you could use a code beautifier plugin such as syntax highlighter or you could include your code in <pre> tags. They preserve line breaks, multiple blanks, tabs between words and other formatting commonly used in code. However, in some cases, if body of your blog is narrow(er) or your line of code is really long, it will not wrap and will overflow over your sidebar. You can just hide the overflow but that still will look tacky and not very usable. On performing a little search, I discovered that Tyler Longren had already come up with a clever hack to solve the problem. If you add the following code to your stylesheet, it will wrap the long lines of code. pre { white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */ white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */ white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */ white-space: […]
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The WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0 has been getting a lot of good press in the past few weeks and we already have four interesting and useful plugins announced for the competition. If you are planning to participate, why don’t you register on the PluginBlog and post your announcement? The last date to submit your plugin is the 31st of July. Lots of new prizes have been announced for the competition including over $700 in prize money from myself, Ajay, Jonathan and Darren, a Hostgator sponsored dedicated server for a year, an 8GB iPod Nano from Imthiaz, more hosting from PJMommy, a signed copy of Lorelle’s new book and a copy of Angsuman’s latest Translator Pro. Thanks to Matt, Lorelle and others for helping to promote the competition. Oz and Lorelle have also helped me make the PluginBlog more user friendly and clean it up. Ajay is helping me judge the […]
[Continue Reading...]WP Plugin: Listen Button: Create instant podcasts from your blog text with this plugin from Odiogo.com. It creates a “Listen” button on your blog that people can click to listen to the text of a post. The content is read by a machine and the voice stream is linked in a flash player format on your blog. The mp3 resides on the Odiogo server and can also be downloaded. Weblog Tools Collection can now be downloaded in a podcast format with the help of this service. You can do the same for your blog by signing up for their podcast service. I am not sure this format makes sense for the staccato delivery of this blog but it might be a cool feature for blogs with longer articles and lesser linked content. At the very least, it is a novelty for any blogger that always wanted to hear themselves type […]
[Continue Reading...]Adding Custom WordPress Hooks: This migt be an interesting article for Theme and Plugin authors looking to enhance the functionality of their themes and plugins. Though the procedure is not complex, most of the questions I get surrounding plugin development centers around WordPress hooks.
[Continue Reading...]Pride is a three column, hybrid, rounded edge, lighweight, blue and yellow theme for WordPress that is very Blogger-esque. The theme elements have a comic like quality and looks very polished. Pride is authored by Small Potato and is released under the GPL. Prosumer is a three column, widget ready, white background, somewhat bare theme for WordPress by Jauhari. The “somewhat bare”ness of the theme is made up by the nicely placed accent graphics and the smooth flow of the theme. Clean Copy is a widget ready, two column, well spaced out, somewhat light theme for WordPress with blue and white colors and five random header graphics. SilkStream is a dark, three column, blue on black theme from Milo. It is widget ready, has a sideblog , recent comments, related posts and flickr RSS. Spiritual Journey is a three column, left and right sidebar, widget ready theme for WordPress with […]
[Continue Reading...]Very important! If you have noticed, I wrote up a small heat map to be displayed in the sidebar and on the main search page of this blog. The search and data collection process is a slightly intelligent and tries to match up search terms and group them by usage. It then chooses all searches performed within the past 24 hours and displays them in a heatmap sorted by propensity of the search phrase. The 24 hour time period keeps the search phases in the heatmap turned over regularly and retains the interest of returning visitors. Why did I do this? I put it together because I believe that there is a lot of power (and thus clicks, pageviews, eyeballs) in searches. I had noticed the Eurekster Swiki on TechCrunch and was impressed by the power of the system. I tried to emulate it on weblogtoolscollection.com with little success. To […]
[Continue Reading...]WP CSS-Streamliner: Streamline and optimize and compress your CSS file with this WordPress plugin to improve your blog’s performance. Blogroll Page Plugin: Publish your blogroll on a page rather than your sidebar with this plugin. Do Follow Trackback: Use this plugin to show linky love to other bloggers that actually link to you when they send you a trackback. Much like the trackback validator. Excerpt Editor Update: Tweak and pamper your excerpts to your hearts’ content with this editor. This update includes bufixes, better security and classier code. Get it, classier …? never mind! WP-Simpleviewer: Incorporate SimpleViewer Flash galleries into WordPress. For those that are not aware of SimpleViewer, it is a free and ersatile Flash based image display application. It helps build beautiful and smooth galleries. This plugin is also an entrant into the WordPress Theme Competition 2.0. WP-Filemanager: Highly versatile file management plugin for WordPress that will allow […]
[Continue Reading...]GaMerZ WordPress Plugins Updated: Lester (GaMerZ) has updated most of his plugins to work with WordPress 2.2 Some of the updates are bugfixes while others have new and requested features. WP-Polls now features multiple options, future poll scheduling, poll data log mining and some parts of the admin backend are now AJAXed. WP-PageNavi has been revamp in terms of looks and options as you can see at the bottom of this page, it features digg style design navigation with the use of style sheet and now almost all the options can be set in “WP-Admin -> Options -> PageNaviâ€. There are some new features in WP-Ban, like banned by referrers url, banned by specific IP range, exclude a specific IP from being banned and the ability to preview banned message. He has also added a scheduler to WP-DBManager, the ability to optimize, backup, backup and email the database dump file […]
[Continue Reading...]How strong is your password? Even though this post from Donncha on the WordPress.com blog might have been written for the benefit of WordPress.com users, I believe that this is highly relevant for ALL bloggers. I could not find a WordPress plugin for the password strength meter without JQuery but that would be a very useful tool to have. Remember, the weakest link in our security chain is the common stuff we tend to overlook. Please make sure your password is not easily guessable.
[Continue Reading...]About the Author
- 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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