Archive for the Tag: WordPress
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Quickie: 05/03/2008 8:30:41am
Updated 5 blogs to WordPress 2.5.1, updated all of their plugins, and setup new secret keys. All in less than 10 minutes. (...)
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Quickie: 04/12/2008 10:33:33am
Updated the Simple Post plugin with a date/time fix. (...)
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Quickie: 03/30/2008 10:48:24am
Just updated blogs to WordPress 2.5. Everything works well from what I can tell. I love the new automatic plugin updater. (...)
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Quickie: 03/18/2008 7:48:09am
WordPress 2.5 RC1 is out, so the final release will be coming soon. The announcement gives a sneak peak at some of the changes. (...)
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From SVSU to Automattic
I started attending Saginaw Valley State University in 1998. A year and a half later, I got a job in the IT Services Support Center as a Student Technician. In 2002 I was hired as a Help Desk Analyst and graduated with my Bachelor’s a few months later. A little over a year ago I took a job as Microlab Technology Specialist. After nearly 10 years, Wednesday was my last day working for SVSU. (...)
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Quickie: 02/06/2008 11:46:32am
Upgraded all blogs to WordPress 2.3.3. (...)
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WordPress Plugin: Comment Author URL Stripper
As promised, I’ve created a plugin which removes the URL from a comment author if it contains any of the words specified in the Options screen. Too many people have been leaving comments and putting in yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc. as their web site and I got tired of editing those comments all of the time. (...)
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Comment Author URL Stripper
When writing comments, a lot of people type in google.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, and various other web sites which don’t belong to them. This plugin strips out the comment author URL whenever it contains anything from a set of words that you specify in the Options screen. The URL will never make it to the database. (...)
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Simple Post WordPress Plugin
I’ve just released version 1.0 of my new Simple Post plugin for WordPress. The plugin allows you to create simpler post write screen. There are options to set the default category, ping status, and comment status, as well as autofill the title of the post with some text and date/time. You can also choose to display the tags and editor toolbar. (...)
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Simple Post
Simple Post gives the ability to create a simplified write Post screen. Options are used to set the default category, ping status, and comment status. The post title can also be set using a combination of text and date/time. A couple of more options can be set to display the Tags and the Editor toolbar. For more information or to download the plugin, visit the Simple Post plugin page at WordPress. (...)
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My First WordPress Meetup
On Wednesday, I attended the 2008 MacWorld WordPress Meetup at Chaat Cafe. The first person I met was Andrew because I noticed a WordPress sticker on his laptop while we were in line ordering food. Shortly after we sat down, Matt walked in. I’ve been using WordPress since version 0.72 back in 2003, so it was nice to finally meet him. (...)
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Quickie: 01/15/2008 5:59:15pm
Going to try and make it to the WordPress MacWorld meetup tomorrow. (...)
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Quickie: 12/19/2007 6:36:24pm
Working on a Quickie posting plugin for the default WordPress admin interface. (...)
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Quickie: 12/19/2007 3:34:04pm
Helped a friend get some code working with WordPress MU so he can use one theme for a series of blogs, but still be able to do some custom CSS for each site. (...)
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Quickie: 12/19/2007 8:30:16am
Added Lightbox and wordTube plugins here at MDV. (...)
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Quickie: 12/18/2007 8:13:50pm
Made some good progress tonight on the WPhone add-on plugin. Posting with it right now. (...)
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Wphone
Wphone is a lightweight WordPress admin interface built for the iPhone and might convince me to ditch Twitter. (...)
Separating Content Types
Series of Posts - Redesigning MtDewvirus 2007The New MtDewVirusSeparating Content TypesBetter Use Of Sidebars One of the major goals for the 2007 redesign was separating the different types of content posted on the site. Over the years, post sizes have decreased. I’m not sure when, but once upon a time I implemented what are commonly called “Asides” as a type of short quick post. (...)
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404 Notifier WordPress Plugin
Some of the best WordPress plugins are the ones you rarely use. One of my favorites is Alex King’s 404 Notifier. Very handy to turn on every couple of months or after a site upgrade. (...)
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Spammers Attack
Over the past week I’ve had a problem with spammers hitting my comment form hardcore both here and at 2 Hole Cards so hard it was crashing the web host server. They had to disable the sites and it looks like the spammers have moved along. Just to help out for future attacks, I’ve upgraded to the latest and greatest testing version of WordPress and added Spam Karma 2.3 as a new plugin. (...)
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No WWW
I posted a couple of months ago about dropping the www from URLs and have been a supporter of it for much longer. All of my sites have been www free for as long as I can remember. The www.xxxx.com URLs will redirect to the one without www. If you’re using WordPress and have been afraid to try out the .htaccess method Matt released the no-www plugin last month. (...)
Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam
With Akismet from Automattic or more specifically Matt Mullenweg. I just purchased a Pro-blogger license for an entire year and installed the WordPress plugin on all of my blogs. I removed my other spam prevention plugins, turned off the Comment author must have a previously approved comment option in WP, and even deleted my comment spam word blacklist. (...)
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Golden Ticket
I received the Golden Ticket in my Inbox just a few minutes ago. Check out Nick Momrik on WordPress.com. (...)
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WP Backup Week
WordPress Backup Week starts tomorrow. I highly recommend WP-DB Backup with WP-Cron. (...)
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WordPress Database Backup Plugin
Tired of having to manually backup your WordPress database? Do you even back it up? Worry no more… Skippy has created an awesome plugin for WordPress. It’s called WordPress Database Backup. With a few clicks you can either download a backup of your database or have it sent attached to an email. It’s a very quick and simple process. (...)
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WordPress Auto Backup
I’ll definately be testing out Podz’s WordPress backup script as soon as I get a chance. (...)
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WordPress 1.5.1.3
WordPress 1.5.1.3 has been released, which fixes a security hole. Upgrade before you’re sorry! (...)
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WordPress Plugin Update Notification
Last night I went out searching for plugin updates. I use quite a few plugins at all of my sites, so I wanted to get everything updated. After visiting countless sites, I became frustrated. Most people post about their plugins on their own blogs, but finding some updates is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Today the light bulb went off. (...)
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Blogs Of The Day
BOTD is “quite possibly the most gratuitous popularity contest on the Internet.” It’s also a sweet plugin for WordPress. (...)
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WP Tiger Admin
I know it’s been posted in many other places, but the Tiger Admin for WordPress has a great look and feel to it. (...)
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WP 1.5.1 Upgrades
Just finished upgrading all three of my sites to WordPress 1.5.1! (...)
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WP-Cache
When Poker Chip Tricks was Farked this weekend I installed WP-Cache to speed up my WordPress install. It’s easy to install and works great. Might not be a bad idea for anyone that thinks their site might be Farked or Slashdotted. (...)
Ping Pong Tips
Mo has launched another WordPress powered site. This time it’s Ping Pong Tips. (...)
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Tennis Tips
Mo has launched Tennis Tips, another great display of WordPress. (...)
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Card Converter Update
The Card Converter plugin has been updated. There were a few things that didn’t work after converting to be compatible with WP 1.5. (...)
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More WP Upgrades
Last night I helped upgrade Hamoudy to WP 1.5 and today I upgraded Poker Chip Tricks. I had been dreading the upgrade to PCT because off the heavy customization I had done to the design, but with the new theme system in WordPress, it was a piece of cake. (...)
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No Spam
On February 14th, I upgraded MtDewVirus to WordPress 1.5 and on February 27th, I deactivated all spam prevention plugins. I was kind of curious how many comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks have been flagged as spam by my WP install, so I just took a look. It’s April 1st, but this is no joke…I have 10,000 spam comments sitting in my database. (...)
Tag, You’re It!
Since I started using Flickr earlier this month, I’ve falling in love with tags. Using categories in WordPress has always been a burden, so made the move to rid the site of them. Using tags is much better way to classify things in my opinion. You can view a heat map or full list of the tags used here at MDV. (...)
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CardiacKid
Another happy switch to WordPress. (...)
Lack of Personal Updates
You may have noticed a lack of personal updates here at the MDV. Seriously, there really hasn’t been much exciting going on, but here’s what I’ve been up to the last couple of days. For the past two weeks I’ve been busy working on my web sites, upgrading WordPress installations, writing plugins, and helping out in general with WP. (...)
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Archive Inspiration
The archives at the WP development blog look a lot like MDV Archive, or more specifically, the old MtDewVirus Archives system, which allowed linking to the year archive. I wonder if my archives were inspiration or if they actually use my code. (...)
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WordPress Fights Spam
As I mentioned on Friday, I had deactivated my spam prevention plugins. It’s been about 60 hours, but all of spam fighting techniques that are built into WordPress are working extremely well. One thing I noticed however was pingbacks automatically being approved. I had trackbacks moderated by a plugin I wrote, but otherwise they would have been approved also. (...)
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Fight the Spam
Last night I deactivated the WP Hashcash plugin here and at 2 Hole Cards to see how it goes. As of right now, the only spam plugin I have activated is my moderate trackback plugin. We’ll see how the spam prevention measures that are built into WordPress do. (...)
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WP 1.5 Times 2
Just upgraded 2 Hole Cards to the latest and greatest blogging software the web has to offer. I’m diggin’ WP 1.5 more and more each time I play around with. And finding out more about how it works too! (...)
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Trackback and Pingback Moderation Updates
I’ve updated the plugins for moderating pingbacks and trackbacks. They now work like I should have first created them. The PB or TB is set to moderate before being committed to the database. This eliminates my query to the database and it also allows WordPress to send you the correct email message. The latest version for each is 1.2. (...)
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Updated WordPress Plugins
I’ve updated all of my WordPress plugins for WP 1.5 compatibility. Most of them would have functioned without a problem, so I didn’t make many changes. Enjoy! (...)
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WordPress Plugins
The following are all plugins that I’ve created to be used with WordPress. If you find a bug or have a suggestion, feel free to contact me. Card Converter Replace playing card abbreviations with a CSS playing card. Allows you to write <card>As</card>, but WP to display a CSS representation of the Ace of spades, like A♠. (...)
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MDV Archive
Want a better archiving system for WordPress? You may remember the old MtDewVirus archives system, but this is much better. The new theme system makes it possible. You can see it in action on the archives here at MtDewVirus and get the files at the MDV Archive page. (...)
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Forward
I’m pretty happy with the way the design turned out. I call it Forward because of it’s relation to my life right now. We can usually tell what is over our heads and what is under our feet, but we don’t always know what’s right in front of us. For instance, just look at the header and footer images. (...)
Official WordPress 1.5 Announcment
Straight from Matt comes the official announcement of WordPress 1.5. Very well written, but you really have to see the new version in action to believe all of the new features. (...)
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Counting WordPress
Almost 10,000 downloads for WordPress 1.5 and it hasn’t even been announced yet! It was at 9,900 at the time of this post. (...)
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Review: WordPress 1.5
First of all I’d like to say congratulations to Matt and the rest of the Wordpress development team on a fine job with WP 1.5. Earlier tonight I happened to be checking my email when a few changes came in to the CVS mailing list. The latest change had the log message of “*cough*” and I was curious. (...)
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What Happened To MtDewVirus?
As you may have noticed, the look has changed. Matt asked if I’d test out the first build of WordPress 1.5 and I couldn’t say no. I haven’t had the chance to give everything a test run, but I’ve noticed some great changes already. (...)
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Change Of Scenery
MtDewVirus realy needs a change of scenery…I just haven’t wanted to spend the time on a new design though. WordPress 1.5 has entered the gamma stage, so it shouldn’t be long before the final release. Maybe that’s when I’ll work on some changes around here since there are some new features that I’ve planned to take advantage of for quite some time. (...)
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Trackback Spammers Are Back
The trackback spammers are back in full force. When I checked my email this morning I had over 180 and it’s continuing through the morning at a rate of several per minute. Talk about a pain in the ass! Don’t they realize that their info isn’t every getting onto the site. It’s getting flagged and caught in the moderation queue. Keep it up jackasses! (...)
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WordPress Plugin Repository
Recently, the WordPress Plugin Repository was launched, so I figured I should participate. I just got done adding all of my plugins. It’s a little bit of a process getting things in and out, but I think I got the hang of it now. I’ve created a page in the Wiki at wp-plugins.org that lists them all for easy access. (...)
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Coding Zone
I love it when I get into a coding zone. Over the last few days I’ve released moderation plugins, found a new contact form, fixed some of my old plugins, installed my archiving system on someone’s site, updated Poker Chip Tricks, and setup discussion forums. Phew! (...)
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Comment And Post Plugin Updates
I just updated almost all of the comment and post plugins. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions and fixes. Everything has been moved over the to WordPress Plugin Repository. See my list of plugins. (...)
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Matt > Bill
Matthew Mullenweg is like the Bill Gates of Internet software. But then again, maybe he’s not. All of Matt’s software is Open Source (free to use, free to modify). Oh, and his software works. Did I mention he listens to his users? Or how about the fact that he answers every single one of his email messages? So I take that back…he’s not like Gates at all. (...)
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WordPress Plugins: Trackback And Pingback Moderation
These two plugins basically do the same thing, but I wanted to keep them seperate. When you turn one on, it will automatically place either all NEW trackbacks or all NEW pingbacks (depending on the plugin) into the comment moderation queue. It’s meant as a simple way to keep the spammers from getting these onto your site without you first approving them. (...)
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Trackback Spam
Now that I’ve gotten a handle on the comment spam taking over my blogs, I’m getting hit through other means. Trackbacks! I found a few hooks in the WP code that I can plug into, so tonight I plan to whip up a few plugins so that pingbacks and trackbacks can automatically be put into the moderation queue. At least that’s what I hope to accomplish. (...)
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Stop The Comment Spam
Hopefully comment spam is a thing of the past. I want to apologize to anyone who has attempted to comment recently and has been redirected to the FBI’s site. I think my comment spam checking system was going a little haywire from all of the spammers and it was flagging some of you that were attempting to leave legitimate comments. (...)
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Little Light Bulbs In My Head
I always get some great little ideas about something I could make a short post about on the site, but then forget by the time I get back to a computer. It’s times like those that I wish I paid for Internet access on my phone. I wonder if I could use the text messaging feature to send a message to an email account that WP would automatically check. (...)
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Blogiversary
1 YEAR! It was a year ago today that I made my first post here using WordPress. I want to give a special thanks to Matt who suggested the little known project of WP to me when I asked him about his web site. Also big thanks to the other main developers and contributors that make WP possible. I still remember installing version .7x. (...)
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WordPress Comment SPAM Plugins
I’m now using two plugins to help me combat comment SPAM. The first is Kitten’s Spam Words, which gives you an easy way to delete comments and mark them as spam at the same time. This helps to create a list of comment spam words in WordPress so that further comments will automatically be held for moderation. The second plugin is Mark Ghosh’s Three Strikes Spam Protection. (...)
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Powered By WordPress
I just realized that all of the blogs in my Weblogs I Read section are powered by WordPress. (...)
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Livesearch
Michael over at Binary Bonsai has implemented a Livesearch feature for WP. Very cool! (...)
WordPress Plugin: Card Converter
Card Converter is a WordPress plugin with poker bloggers in mind, but it can be used by anyone who would like to display playing cards in posts and comments. It will take card abbreviations such as Ad (meaning Ace of diamonds) and convert it to a CSS graphical-like representation of the card. (...)
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WP-Dstats2
Sweet stats plugin for WordPress. Exactly what I’m looking for and very powerful. (...)
Creating PokerChipTricks.com
First I’d like to thank my friend Dave for his help with most of the videos you’ll find at Poker Chip Tricks. Without his help, all of the great footage would not have been possible and the site wouldn’t be up yet. Now for the topic at hand…using WordPress to manage the new poker chip tricks site. (...)
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WordPress Pokerhand Plugin
Chris’s Pokerhand plugin for WordPress is one the greatest I’ve seen…at least for a poker player with a blog running WP. When you type a hand like AcKs (along with surrounding tags) it will display the “c” as a club and the “s” as a spade. Sweet! (...)
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WordPress Plugin: Last Modified
While working on my new Poker Chip Tricks site, I had the need to show the date and time that a post was last modified. I didn’t feel like looking around on the WP site to see if a plugin was already written, so I wrote my own. It’s just a simple little plugin, but it does exactly what I want it to. You can find it along with all of the other plugins that I’ve written. Enjoy! (...)
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Comments Posted Elsewhere
It’s been awhile since I’ve released any WordPress plugins or even worked on any for that matter. But today, I’m releasing a new one called Comments Posted Elsewhere. You can find it in the WP Plugins Repository here. The entire idea for this one goes out to Neil Uchitel who came to me with the idea. (...)
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WordPress TopSites
Vote for the top WordPress powered sites on the web. (...)
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WordLog
Carthik has started a site for WordPress news. It’s called WordLog and sounds like a great idea. I’ve added it to the links section of my sidebar so that I can tell when it’s updated. I’m not quite sure what “Alpha Users” are, but I’m listed there. (...)
WP-Amazon
If you include pictures of books, DVDs, or other things in posts, you need WP-Amazon, another great WordPress Plugin. (...)
Is Photo Matt Gone For Good?
I sure hope not. Matt introduced me to a whole new world when I stumbled across his site back in October-November. He suggested WordPress for use with my new blog and the rest is history. I’ve learned CSS, XHTML, and PHP. I’ve tried to conform to web standards as much as I can. To say the least…Matt has had a great influence on me, which has provided many hours of enjoyment. (...)
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Photo Gallery Manangement
I’ve been struggling to find something to use for the photos section of the site and may have finally found it. iPAP/SPAM is what I’m currently using, but a lot of the features I need/want are not implemented yet. Since it’s a one-man show, I don’t know when those features will be implemented. (...)
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It’s Out!
The final release of WordPress 1.2 is available now. Get it while it’s hot! I’ve already upgraded my site. There are just a ton of new features and since they’ve been discussed elsewhere, I won’t waste my time trying to do it here. (...)
You Might Be A WordPress Junkie If…
You have more than 5 folders on your web space that begin with “wp-”. (There are only 4 included in the distribution, but I have 7.) You know that a post-slug is not an insect or a shotgun shell. You know what the WordPress Wiki is and where to find something in it. You check the WP CVS at least once a day for updated files. You know at least two of the developers by their domain name. (...)
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WordPress Plugins
WordPress 1.2 is in final testing and the final release should be available sometime this week. There is a nice new plugin structure to replace the previous hacks functionality. As a result, I’ve ported some of my hacks over to plugins. Everything has been moved over the to WordPress Plugin Repository. See my list of plugins. (...)
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Time For A Design Change
It’s been over 6 months since I’ve been running my blog, which also means 6 months for the design. It’s time for a change! This design is getting old on my eyes and it has a few problems that have crept in recently. Most noticeable is the problem with the Google ads. They like to flash at the top of the page when the site is loading or when using the tabbed sidebar. (...)
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GMT vs. UTC
Recent updates to the way dates and times are stored in the MySQL database by WordPress are causing quite a stir at the Support Forums. When I ran a few upgrades the other day, the new code had a lot of bugs, so my site hit the shitter for a bit. Everything is running smooth again though after a few more updates. (...)
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Backup!
Never underestimate the importance of a backup! I ran some upgrades to WordPress and all of my dates and times got screwed. I didn’t panic, but I restored a backup of my database, upgraded again, and then re-added all of the missing posts and comments since the last backup. If I would have backed up right before the upgrade (like I normally do) I would have saved a lot of time. (...)
This And That
Went out to an 80’s bar last night with a few friends and ended up staying until closing time. As a result I’m feeling a little “under the weather” today. The bar is pretty cool…they have a big screen TV that they play videos on while the song is playing, so you get the feeling that you’re back in the day, listening to some of the music we grew up on. (...)
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Comment SPAM Protection
I just installed a hack by Mark (Laughing Lizard) on my site to filter comments. Believe it or not, there are people out there that will visit blogs and post comments advertising viagra or other such things. This hack is designed to help prevent this from happening. If an address or certain words are recognized, the comment will be marked and will not appear until I allow it too. (...)
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WordPress Hacks
I’ve created a page to explain how I do some of the hacks on my weblog. All of the hacks are modifications to hacks written by someone else. Just my way of giving back to the WP community. Everything has been moved over the to WordPress Plugin Repository. See my list of plugins. (...)
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WordPress 1.0 Platinum
On January 2nd, WordPress 1.0 Platinum was released. I had been waiting for the new version for several days after reading about some of the new features that were going to be included. It took me a little bit longer than expected to get my weblog upgraded and running properly, but I really couldn’t ask for anything more from WordPress. (...)