I have long had a pet peeve with forums and discussion boards. People simply do not pay attention!! There are a few simple rules that should be adhered to with every forum/BB posting (if you want your questions looked at/answered) Numero Uno: Please search the forum first to see if your question has already been answered. Many people that want to answer your question will simply ignore it if your question has been answered succintly and the problem solved in the recent past. Almost every (caveat) forum has a stupid search button for just that purpose! The same questions appear over and over again, albeit with ridculous disclaimers like “Sorry if this is a repeat post, I was too lazy to look it up so I am posting again and again and again. Sorry again, please forgive me. I am new to all of this.” Who cares? It is common […]

I have put together a “hacked version” of WordPress 1.1 alpha and would like to get some feedback on it before I package it for release. Here is the link to “WuhWuh” version 0.1 (pronounced woo’aah woo’aah) 😉 Some of the prominent features include simple 3 step installation and a built in theme manager. Username for login: admin Password: password I have a long functional document (explaining all the hacks, functions and ways to use them as well as the changelog and other explanations) along with a wish list and upcoming enhancements. If this does catch on, expect a seperate set of forums (to prevent confusion the original WP forums) and a release cycle of once per major release of WordPress. And ummm…people…dont change the password! That is just stupid to do. It is my database, my server, my control. It just makes life a little more difficult for other […]

Denyer has released the Amazon Media Manager hack for WordPress. There are lots of cool built-in features, they include: * Associate ID support * Display by media type: Book, DVD, Music or any combination * Display Most recent, recommended or random items * Filter items by personal recommendation * Customisable output similar to standard WP template functions In case you do not want to use your own associate ID, you could use Denyer’s (which would make him a few extra bucks for his effort). The source code is, of course, open source and can be used with other PHP based weblogging systems and PHP enabled webpages (with a little modification). Denyer is an engineer by education (though he chooses not to work in that field) and writes very clean and well commented code. To add to his laurels, he is a wonderful photographer! If you use his hack, find a […]

As before, this hack lets you count down the top 10 posts in WordPress (any version) but there is now the added feature of being able to display the number of times a single post is clicked on. You can download the instructions for the hack from here. Look below the comments link for each post on this blog to see what this might look like.

As noted on his blog, Alex King has released an updated version of Tasks Pro (1.0 now). He has worked very hard on this project and it really is a gem! Tasks management on the web does not have to be bloatware and this set of scripts proves just that. Some of the features of 1.0 include multiuser functionality and a list of changes from previous versions can be found here. You can demo Tasks Pro 1.0 here and read more about it here. Good job Alex (as always) !

In response to recent queries about an existing MySql dump file for WordPress, I have created a couple. To use these MySql dump files, the wp-config.php file should show the db perfix to be ‘wp_’ Create a database (and make sure your database connection options are setup in wp-config.php) and then import in the sql file through a command line MySql client or through a tool like phpMyAdmin. The admin username is ‘admin’ and password is set to ‘password’. Remember to change the admin password after you login. Look for further instructions here:http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/Restore%20Instructions Here is a link to the WordPress 1.01 Miles dump file: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/wp1_0_1_miles_sqldump.sql Here is a link to the WordPress 1.1 Beta (latest nightly) dump file: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/wp_1_1_beta_sqldump.sql Please read the next part before downloading: There is an item that I did not think about and that is my mistake. Once you download these files, before you import them […]

This is a very cool hack from SonincPling.net. It uses the latest weather information to post the weather of the blog writers’ city (?) Looks very nice and is well written. I was going to wait till it was valid XHTML, but in myopinion, it does not matter. Here is the quote from SonicPling. It displays the current weather conditions for a specified station with a pretty icon. See it in action here: http://www.sonicpling.net With all options enabled: http://www.sonicpling.net/weather/weather-full.php Get the zip file here: http://www.sonicpling.net/weather/weather.zip there’s a csv file included that list stations

I have to post a link to this because I lose it all the time. This is Dunstan Orchard’s Nicer Titles CSS code. Very pretty, useful and aesthetically pleasing. Think of them this way, before you click on a link, as soon as you point to it, the page provides a nicely formed description of what the link points to. Pretty? Sure! Useful? Heck Yeah! Nice Titles Link