By Austin on April 27, 2009
I was just working on re-launching my forum in preparation of the new theme I am going to release sometime this week. And while in the bbPress admin section I noticed some spammers had registered, a little over two hundred fifty to be exact.
While I was looking at the bbPress site, I came across this [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Automattic, bbpress, talkpress
By Austin on February 19, 2009
Well, I hope many of you have been using the WordPress plugin directory. It’s a grand location where you can find endless plugin for your WordPress blog.
But sometimes you don’t exactly get what you search for, but according to mdawaffe on WordPress, they have implemented a new open source MySQL text search engine. Well go [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged MySQL, Search Engine, Sphinx, WordPress
By Austin on January 17, 2009
Hey, in case you are unaware, WordPress has launched a new site called WordPress.tv. Check out the full post at the WordPress.org blog. Or visit WordPress.tv
…WordPress.tv is also now the place to find all that awesome WordCamp footage that was floating around the web without a home. See the presentations you missed and get [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Launch, WordPress, WordPress Tips, WordPress TV
By Austin on December 5, 2008
Here is a useful trick. Want to call or echo an image into your blog post with our using the custom fields? Well this could be tricky, but I know of a way.
All you have to do is print these lines of code into your
index.php or home.php inside the loop:
<?php
$id =$post->ID;
$the_content =$wpdb->get_var(“SELECT post_content FROM $wpdb->posts [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged echo image, gallery, the loop, thumbnail, tricks
By Austin on December 5, 2008
Hey, do you have a list a social bookmark links? Does it have a Twitter link?
Well here is a way you can link a post to your Twitter.
<a href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=Blog Post: <?php the_permalink(); ?>” class=”external” title=”Click to send this post to Twitter!”>Twitter</a>
Pretty useful I might say
Posted in Articles | Tagged post to, social bookmark, twitter
By Austin on December 1, 2008
With the release of RC1, we’re in the final leg of development before the release of 2.7. 280 commits since beta 3 have polished the new admin UI (including new menu icons created by the winners of our icon design contest) and fixed all known blocker bugs. We think RC1 is ready for [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged 2.7 RC1, WordPress
By Austin on November 30, 2008
As I have mentioned before, I am using the OIO Publisher Plugin, which you can see/use/purchase by clicking on the advertisement ad, or my advert page.
Anyway, it suddenly was not working and would say “plugin off line” on the purchase page, when it most certainly was not.
After contacting Simon over at OIO. I got a [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bug Fix, Error, OIOPublisher, Plugins
By Austin on November 25, 2008
WordPress 2.6.5 is immediately available and fixes one security problem and three bugs. We recommend everyone upgrade to this release.
The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged 2.6.5, Articles, WordPress
By Austin on November 17, 2008
The community has voted, and the votes have been tallied. The winner of Project Icon, with 35% of the votes, is Entry ID “BD,” otherwise known as Ben Dunkle. Congratulations, Ben! The runner-up was VS, otherwise known as Verena Segert, so we’ll be attaching that set to the alternate color palette that is selectable from [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged 2.7, WordPress
By Austin on November 16, 2008
Properly configured, Wordpress can be an extremely effective way of designing, maintaining and managing your site. Not only that, but sites using Wordpress tend to rank well organically within the top search engines, once properly configured. However, neglecting some critical configurations can cause pages and posts that make up your site to not even be [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged SEO, WordPress
By Austin on November 15, 2008
WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 has been released for your testing pleasure. Here are some of the changes since Beta 2 (over 160 changes in total):
Numerous style improvements and refinements.
All admin notices now go under the page title.
PHP Notice fixes.
Dashboard widget options now properly save.
Menu fixes.
New design for Quick Edit.
Canonical feed URL fixes.
Walker fixes.
An update [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Articles, Beta, WordPress
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