CowPimp (who is taking donations for a digicam BTW, hint hint) has come up with a sweet way to cache your WordPress pages. I am going to try it out on this blog. From his post This is a plugin for WordPress that caches pages. To use it, you simply install the plugin and turn it on. There is no need to edit your templates. Why would you want to do this? This reduces the load on the PHP interpreter and on the mysql database. It also allows the site to be fully functional even if the mysql database is down. Download the cache plugin here: http://www.cowpimp.com/archives/2004/06/08/staticize-plugin-for-wordpress/

I have noticed that the amount of support requests I receive (especially for Pictorialis) is something that I am unable to cope with and still be able to produce new code. So I am asking for your help as well as offering you a better way of getting in touch with the people that are able to help (as well as be helped). I have created a new “forum” on my existing bulletin board (PhpBB, I know) for Pictorialis and another for my other more general WordPress tweaks/plugins. The new forums can be visited here. I will visit very often and will try to help as much as I can. I sure would appreciate others chipping in as well. Thank you for all your support! [EDIT] New Pictorialis Project Page. Please Bookmark.

Hey, back again with more sillyness. For those of you who are not quite… how you say happy with the current admin layout in WordPress you now have a choice.  I have released the first version of my admin UI redesign over at my site that dramatically streamlines the UI. One of the exciting things about this is that already there are people running with this creating color variations to widen the choices we will have.  Look for more on this in the future.

I had seen a couple of “Related Posts” implementations for WordPress and other blogs and they did not really make much sense to me. Once I had the code for contextual searches, the related posts plugin was a simple extension of that search code. This plugin has the following features: -related posts from your own blog, so more linkage -extremely customizeable output -links listed according to relevance -“fuzzy” matching of posts/titles -very easy install You can see an implementation of this on this blog. Just click on the permalink of any entry and look for the titles at the bottom of the post content. Download the plugin from here: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/related.zip Download the updated version of Contextual Related Posts.

Andrew Hall has released his version of the Sticky Post hack for WordPress. He has acheived this by using custom post fields. Here is a short description of the plugin: This is an alpha release of a sticky post / select custom field plugin for WordPress 1.2. In advanced editing mode, you create a custom field KEY eg ‘sticky’ and give it value 1. In whatever categories that post belongs to, it will behave as a sticky. When you want to unsticky it, delete the custom field for that post. You can download the plugin here. You can download the script here. You can see an example on this blog.

Test your trackbacks and pingbacks here: The code wizard Dougal strikes again with his Trackback Ping Tester.

Anne van Kesteren gave me some code to make intelligent searches inside WordPress and I wrapped it up in a nice install tutorial. Some of the features of this hack includes -text based “fuzzy” searches within WordPress -a nice Google like interface which is very customizeable -search results with decreasing relevance to search topic -trap for words which are less than four letters long, the search then gets routed through the default WP search -“Next results” button which shows the next 10 (or less) results in relevance -very simple installation with no effect on future upgrades Test install is on this blog. Simply search for something from the form on the right. Please post suggestions/bugs. Download the zip file here: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/search.zip

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