I had so much trouble figuring out Regular Expressions for PHP that I decided to put all of the stuff I foud in one place. I have attributed to all the authors, but if you still have a problem with the information being on this page, email me and I will take it down. Here is the link to my Regular Expressions Tutorial

Visitor Trac is my incarnation of the menu depth expression from UseIt, Jakob Neilson’s website This script dynamically keeps track of the last 5-6 pages that a visitor clicks through on your site. It keeps this information for 7 days. The information is stored in individual text files (I realize this makes it slower, but it also makes installation very easy) and the text files are time-managed. It degerates the link table once there is more thn 5 click throughs and the files are checked for date and time difference every time they are accessed. There are a few benefits of this script that should be mentioned here. I have come upon many bulletin boards where I keep track of certain topics and I have to click through a bunch of links before I can get to what I was viewing the last time I was there. This script would […]

I ran into some problems importing from BlogRolling OPML code into WordPress 0.72. I took a very quick look and realized that the regular expressions dont match the OPML. I made some changes to WordPress and I hope this helps someone. Steps: 1) Look for links.import.php in the wp-admin folder. 2) Around line 108, replace the preg_match_all(‘/

There are many ways to track visitors to your blog. You could use a service like Nedstat which offers free page count analysis. If you look towards the bottom of the menu, you will notice a small and unobtrusive icon of a graph. If you click on that you will go to the site analysis page for Weblog Tools Collection. There are various other free counter services out there. Some of these are very intrusive and insist that they place a huge banner on your site along with the number, others prevent unauthorized access to the information. An interesting statistics site for bloggers is BlogPatrol.com They are tuned for bloggers and their statistics are very attuned to user tracking and click through evaluations. There are some other interesting ways to track visitors. On my main blog, in which I use b2 as the CMS, I use a tool called b2stats […]

The WordPress team has released a full version of WordPress (which is what this blog is, and it has been updated to 0.72 as well) 0.72. It has some very nice new features which were lacking in b2 and even in the old WordPress. There are more options to configure and much more control over the output of the blog. There is a pseudo Blogroll built into the system and even allows update information to be downloaded from the Blogrolling website. I did have some problem with the setup of the links, but realized soon enough that it was a mistake on my part. Just remember to enable the php include for “links.weblogs.com.php” at the beginning of the index.php and everything else takes care of itself. Here is the link from SourceForge to download the zip file with the updated WordPress. Some of the bugfixes and updates listed on the […]

Originally started by a couple of very clever programmers, BlogSnob has become a very important tool in the Bloggers’ collection. I signed up for it a couple of days ago and you see the little text ad that shows up at the bottom right hand corner of my menu. It is a simple way to get text ads posted on your own blog and get your ads posted on other people’s sites. I have been using Blogsnob on my main Blog for about three months now and I have served over 2500 ads and have had about 20 people see my page through those ads. A pretty good ratio. Consider a free Google Ad-Sense for Bloggers and you have Blogsnob. Another interesting feature of Blogsnob is the idea of SnobJumping. The idea is to click on the blogsnob link of one blogger and follow this link around to other bloggers’ […]

I came upon a couple of very interesting sites today. One worth mentioning is the Web Page Analyzer . This incredibly useful (and free) online tool accurately and intelligently calculates page size, composition, and download time. Add it to your web design / development bookmarks. Created and produced by Andrew (“Speed Up Your Site”) King. – Jeffrey Zeldman

I have modified the default WordPress template into a 3 column CSS and index.php with a few extra hacks in place. I would like to offer it to the WordPress Community. My blog, Mindful Musings showcases this theme (style or template) and you can download the zip file here. Peace