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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Plugin Home Page: http://mattwalters.net/projects/WordPress-file-monitor/
WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/WordPress-file-monitor/
What is it?
This plugin allows you to monitor the changes made to scripts on your site, which can help you identify potentially hacked files on your site. It will send you an email if there are any changes that you ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
I have heard this complaint form a couple different people where all of a sudden their visual editor is gone and they only have the plain-text (HTML) version of editor. It seems like this mostly happens after an upgrade, but in older versions of WordPress it seemed to happen almost ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Recently a long time friend contacted me because he saw a new user on his site that he did not set up.
The user's first name looked like the below two screenshots:
Upon viewing the page source, I saw that WordPress has a safety measure in place to html escape all this ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Plugin Homepage: http://skyphe.org/code/wordpress/file-gallery/
WordPress Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/file-gallery/
What is it?
This plugin will completely change how you handle file uploads to your WordPress posts, especially if you prefer to show images individually in your posts. Before File Gallery, the process for uploading multiple images and showing them in your posts individually was:
Click the ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Plugin Home Page: http://tadhg.com/wp/wordpress-plugins/related-posts-by-tag-widget/
WordPress Plugin page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/related-post-by-tag/
What Is it?
The Related posts by tags widget will add a short list of articles that share tags with the article currently being read. This allows your visitors to click through another page on your blog and spend more time with your website. Also, ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Tags can be a very useful tool for allowing people and search engines one more way to find your blog articles. There are built in pages in WordPress for displaying related articles by tag, and you can even get a related posts by tag plugin to add links to related ...
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Over at Journey To a Better Man, we use the Swift theme. So far we have absolutely loved it because it provides some great functionality that helped us to get a clean theme out of the box that has some great and easy customization tools.
Everything was going great, until the ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Plugin Home Page: http://www.incerteza.org/blog/projetos/shockingly-big-ie6-warning/
WordPress Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shockingly-big-ie6-warning/
What is it?
If you ever have to work with HTML and CSS you immediately realize (or you learn quickly) that IE6 is the blackhole of all internet browsers. It will literally suck the life out of you and then spit out HTML in ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
This is an addendum to our WordPress Upgrade Woes article that was previously published.
During upgrade of one of our blogs, we ran into the "Call to a member function add_rewrite_tag()" error and it raised some alarm, but we quickly found a support forum thread on the subject.
It turns out that ...
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
The question we received through our contact form was:
Hey guys. I'm trying to figure out how to disable admin email notifications when a new user signs up without using a plugin. Any thoughts?
So I did some research into the code and found out that the answer is No, with the ...
Posted in Basic Use, Plugins | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Every site has an about page, but how useful are they?
Our opinion is that they are very useful because they provide a couple things:
Least of all, its one more page of content on your site for search engines to slurp up
It gives your visitors a feeling of who you are ...
Posted in Content, How to set up your website, Pages | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Sometimes you want to make sure that your smilies do not get turned into graphics inside your posts. All you have to do is change one of your WordPress configuration settings.
Here are the steps to take care of this setting:
1. Log into the backend of your WordPress site and then ...
Posted in Basic Use, Configuration | 1 Comment »
