Archive for the ‘ Wordpress ’ Category
I upgraded my site today to the latest version of Wordpress, revision 3708, today and added the new widgets plugins from the guys at Automattic. After adding the plugins, I had to then upgrade to a theme that supported plugins. K2 fit the bill, but I had to pull the latest from SVN to take [ READ MORE ]
I upgraded my site this morning to the SVN version of WordPress. It took just a few minutes. Here’s all I had to do. For this example I will upgrade my Dad’s site: gunner@cardero$ mv brad brad-bak gunner@cardero$ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/ brad A brad/wp-pass.php ... Checked out revision 3636. gunner@cardero$ cp -R brad-bak/files/ brad/files/ gunner@cardero$ cp brad-bak/wp-config.php brad/ Then head [ READ MORE ]
Is trackback spam the new comment spam? Rachel has been getting hundreds of trackback spams today (so many in fact that she hasn’t been able to get her homework done today because she has spent so much time deleting them) in her WordPress blog. To solve the problem, we first turned off trackback pings through the [ READ MORE ]
I added the Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress tonight in about 10 seconds. It was so easy. Rachel wants her site to get more popular and I found a site saying this plugin helps. [ READ MORE ]
I updated the Comment graph plugin to update anytime the date the graph was made is not equal to the date of the current page view. In essence that updates the graph the first time everyday that a visitor comes to a site. Since I wasn’t getting many (read “any”) comments, my graph would sometimes [ READ MORE ]
The plugin I created for graphing the number of comments by day over the last week is finally availalbe in its first release. The first version doesn’t come with any documentation, just extract the zip file and upload the ‘commentgraph’ folder to your WordPress plugins directory. You have to set a few Options, but that [ READ MORE ]
I wrote a new Wordpress plugin that generates a graph for the number of comments by day. I have the graph in my sidebar. Try commenting (sorry, not trying to shamelessly ask for comments) and watch the graph change! I have some more work on this plugin then I will release it for you to include [ READ MORE ]
With slight hesitation I am releasing my Wordpress 2.0 Custom Insert Size plugin/hack. By downloading one of the files below and following the install instructions in README, you should be able to insert fullsize images to a chosen size, rather than at 128×96. wp-custominsertsize.tar.gz wp-custominsertsize.zip At first, I hated that when you would “send to editor” a fullsize [ READ MORE ]
Photo uploading in WordPress 2.0 has gotten much easier. You can now upload photos directly from the “Write Post” page, rather than on a separate page like previous WP versions. There is a little bit of a trick to get the photo uploaded the way you probably want it. I might not be doing it [ READ MORE ]
One of the biggest features of the new WordPress release is the integration with the spam blocking service, Akismet. Everything you need to know about setting up the Akismet plugin can pretty much be found at Wordpress.com. For even easier setup, follow these instructions: Signup for a WordPress.com account. In addition to [ READ MORE ]