Recently, Sarah Lacy had a long chat with Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress and it’s related companies. Mullenweg shared his thoughts on Silicon Valley, the cult of WordPress, distributed workforces, Facebook, and the relationship between WordPress and Tumblr. [Via: Weblog Tools Collection]
Matthias Kretschmann has developed a template for designing your own icons for the admin area of WordPress. This is very useful for plugin and theme developers looking to add new icons to their new menus. Icons are also used when you have custom post types on your blog. The template contains a total of 6 icon sizes and is available in PNG and PSD formats. The download package also has some PHP code that you can include in your plugin or theme to get the icons working in your WordPress Admin area. Download from WordPress Admin Icons Template
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…
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…
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…
Shortlink trick 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…
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…
How to Insert Ads within your Post Content in WordPress If you’re looking to put in some advertisements in your post content, this is some really good snippets of code to add advertisements in between your post content. Display Separate Counts for Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks As the post says, you can count the number of comments, pingbacks and trackbacks separately on your blog. Curating and filtering blog post comments with WordPress and AJAX Use the field “comment_karma” to track moderated comments. Via: WP Tavern BuddyPress 1.2 The new version of BuddyPress is no longer limited to WordPress MU installation,…
Ajax Edit Comments 4.0 Sneak Peek Ronald and me have been working on a new version of Ajax Edit Comments. Here’s a sneak preview of the new features. And, Jeff gives us his opinion of them. 60+ Latest High-Quality Free WordPress Themes A collection of very neatly categorized themes for WordPress How to Highlight the Search Terms in Results in WordPress This isn’t one of my favourite settings. Here’s some snippets of code that you can add to your theme to highlight the search terms in the results page. 3 codes for a far better WordPress Search Highlight terms, exclude…
How to get your plugin removed from the directory Mark Jaquith tells plugin authors exactly what to do get your plugin banned. Showing custom post types on your home/blog page Show several post types in addition to posts on your home page. These could be page, album, movie or quote! Tracking WordPress Remote HTTP Requests The above code will output something like this any time a HTTP request is made using the HTTP API, but only if the request was not made from an AJAX handling script. Most Popular Words In Plugin Names W-Shadow scanned through the list of plugin…