WordPress Picks for the Week [04/14]
WordPress 3.0 Theme Tip: Feed Links
When you are running WordPress 3.0, here is how you can easily allow the feed-links that browsers and feed readers can detect.
Fixing WordPress Infinite Duplicate Content Issue
Using canonical URLs is the new best way for protecting your site from duplicate content problems. By default, WordPress protects your blog from 404 errors by automatically serving the best URL that is allowed. But, do you want that?
WordPress Custom functions.php Template, Part 2
DIW gives you part two of their custom functions.php. Again, use with caution!
How to enable Multi-Site option in WordPress 3.0
WordPress 3.0 will allow you to run multiple blogs from a single install. But, it doesn’t come turned on by default. Turning it on just requires you to add this piece of code to your config.php file.
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
Menu Management for WordPress
While WordPress 3.0 will add a high fundoo menu system, if you’re eager to experiment with a few plugins, here is a list of a few of them.
WordPress tip: Allow contributors to upload files
If you’re running a multi-author blog, you can choose to allow the users at two levels, contributor and author. Contributors have more restrictions and one main one is the inability to upload files. Turn these on for that better blog post.
WP Quickie: kses
kses is used to filter out bad HTML. This tutorial gives you a lowdown on the same.
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
WordPress Picks for the Week [04/07]
Example How To Add Meta Boxes To Edit Area
You can use custom meta fields which is a very inbuilt feature. However, WordPress also allows you to churn out some better looking boxes that are easier to use and better to work with.
wpSEO vs. All-In-One SEO Pack
A comparison between the paid plugin and the free plugin. Do you really need the paid one? Find out.
The Easy Way To Get Recent Comments In WordPress
Use get_comments to fetch comments. Forget database queries.
Get Ready for WordPress 3.0
More details about Custom Post Types, the new Menu figure and the much expected Multisite / Network (currently WordPress MU)
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
WordPress Picks for the Week [03/31]
Looking forward to WordPress 3.0
You’ll see a lot of posts in the blogosphere about the upcoming release of WordPress. Justin Tadlock gives you a list of new features that you can really look forward to. For me, I’d like to see optimisation!
Show your top contributors without a plugin
Simple snippet of code that you can add to your functions.php of your theme to display the top commenters on your blog.
10 Free WordPress Plugins Every Blog Needs and 5 Bonus Plugins
I don’t use all of them! But, are definitely worth the look.
Database Powered CSS in WordPress Themes
WordPress Themes that support options can help you customise your theme to a much greater degree. While I won’t recommend this on daily production blogs since it had a time to load each page, for theme authors, here’s how you can make your themes more dynamic.
Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0
We had posts and pages, then we had “posts” for images and now we have custom post types for anything and everything you choose! So with WP 3.0 you can have a custom post for that special image, for the gallery, for chat or well, for counting apples on a tree!
Scaling WordPress Part 1: Using MySQL Replication and HyperDB
This one is not for the faint of heart. This is geared towards blogs with thousands of hits daily. Here’s how you can configure WordPress to read through multiple databases so as to speed up loading of pages for your users. I hope one day this site causes me to do this!
Automatically replace content in PRE tags by HTML Entities
When you are posting code, WordPress doesn’t automatically encode HTML entities. But, this piece of code can fix things for you.
Remove/Replace Content from the WordPress Database
Here is where you can take your baby steps on messing your WordPress database.
11 Ways to Create a Mobile Friendly WordPress Site
The mobile web has already caught on and if you haven’t already (we haven’t), here’s how you can get your blog more mobile friendly. You’ll need just one of these methods of course.
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
WordPress Picks for the Week [03/24]
Simple piece of code to utilise any shortlink plugin that implements the “get_shortlink” function properly.
Minimum WordPress Theme Requirements
This one is for all you theme authors who end up missing some rather important elements in your themes.
Declare Multiple Widgetized Areas
This one is a really good set of code when you have a theme that has multiple widgetized areas.
Create Your Own Image to Change The Default Gravatar in WordPress
The title is rather explanatory. The default gravatar is activated when your user has not signed up for Gravatar.com
How To Diagnose And Fix Incorrect Post Comment Counts In WordPress
It does rarely happen, but in case you find a miscount in the comment count being displayed and the actual number of comments, then here is how you fix it.
Allow upload of more file types
WordPress restricts the filetypes that you are allowed to upload to your blog. Here’s how you can activate more filetypes.
WordPress functions.php Template with 15 Essential Custom Functions
This one is self explanatory! You may not need all of them, so you should pick and choose the ones that would serve your blog the best.
List Posts by Category In Navigation
A simple function to display a list of posts and the category they belong to in the sidebar or similar.
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
WordPress Picks for the Week [03/17]
Add Fuzzy Timestamps To Your Blog
By default, WordPress shows you absolute times of your posts. But, here’s how you can add a "personal" touch by displaying something like "Posted yesterday" or "Posted 4 hours back".
Most Wanted Twitter Hacks and Plugins for WordPress
If you’re not publicizing your blog on Twitter, then you’re definitely neglecting a major promotion tool. Here are some popular tweaks that you help you harness the power of Twitter
How To Integrate jQuerry Scroll To Top Control in WordPress
Here is how you can add a button using jQuery that will allow your visitor to immediately scroll to the top of the current page.
WP Comments Notifier
An open source application written in QT/C++ that alerts you when new comments are posted on your WordPress blog (works well with WordPress MU too), It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have new comments,It also includes features that allow you to manage/reply/edit your comments directly from your desktop.
Get rid of unused post revisions
A simple query to delete all the post revisions along with the associated meta from your database. Remember to backup.
Shortcodes in Widgets
With one line of code in your functions.php, you can enable shortcodes in widgets as well.
Add Classes to post_class
3 methods to do that
More Twitter Shortcodes for WordPress
If you’re keen on integrating twitter on your blog, here’s two sets of shortcodes that you can use for displaying twitter search results and twitter trends
6 Ways to Display WordPress Post Content in Multiple Columns
Multi colum themes are the rage especially with magazine themes. If you’re making your own theme, here are several methods to go about this multi-column design.
Shortcodes remain in the post content even when you stop using them. Find and replace your waste shortcuts using this method.
How to Add an Author Info Box in WordPress Posts
This one is ideal for multi-author blogs, where you would like to add information about the author as on each post.
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
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