Archive for May, 2009

I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!

I sincerely apologize for having turned our RSS feed into summaries. I understand it is annoying and creates an unnecessary step for those who read our content through the news feed. But rarely a day goes by when we do not have five to ten new trackbacks from blogs that are copying our content. I
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WordPress Theme Releases for 05/07

I Like Content
Two column, widgetized theme with a narrow sidebar in order to focus on content.
VoodooEmpire2
It’s a DJ influenced black and red 3 column theme. The sidebars are on the right. There is a customizable greeting message that can be configured from the Theme Options area in the admin menu. Also there are
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Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog

When you build a website one of the things most people want are visitors.  New visitors are great because they tend to turn into return visitors.  People will return to your website because they find the content entertaining, informative and worth their time. However, you know how busy we get these days.  We save a
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Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website

As many of you know – plugins can add significant functionality to your website.  For instance there is a plugin that will add an entire forum to your site (Simple:Press) and there is another one that will allow your visitors to contact you via a customizable form (Contact Form 7).
What if you were just looking
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WordPress Theme Releases for 05/09

Go Green
Two column, widget ready theme with built-in ad management and support for Twitter.
Tonight We Party
“Tonight we party” is a fixed background, flexible width, cross-browser compatible free WP theme. One column layout. Has a collapsible sidebar on the left, always visible to the user and extendable on click.
Twitheme
Widget ready, gravatar ready, 2.7 ready, two column
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Contributing to WordPress, Part IV: Ideas, Opinions, Feedback

“I wish they’d implement feature x.”
“Why won’t they put feature y into core? It’s rated really high in the Ideas forum!”
“It doesn’t matter what I think, all the decisions get made by an elite crime-fighting squad funded by an anonymous millionaire. Er, I mean the four core devs.”
These sentiments, and others like them, are the [...]

Contributing to WordPress, Part III: Usability Testing

One of the reasons WordPress 2.7 was such a success is the amount of usability testing that took place during the development cycle. Starting with testing 2.5 and the Crazyhorse prototype and following with the 2.7 beta, the testing program looked at almost every feature and function in the application. That kind of thing? Takes [...]

Vote it Plugin für Wordpress

Auf vielen Blogs gesehen aber aus Zeitmangel nie umgesetzt habe ich die Yigg It, Digg It und SEOigg it Buttons, die dem Blogleser ermöglichen dem entsprechenden Artikel Punkte zu geben oder diesen neu bei einem der Dienste als Newsbeitrag einzustellen. Desto mehr Punkte bei einem der Dienste, desto größer die Chance als TOP Beitrag [...]

Moderator: plugin per moderare i commenti dal desktop

moderator-plugin-wordpress-per-moderare-commenti-dal-desktop Moderator Wordpress Plugin è nuovo plugin per wordpress che aiuta a moderare i commenti del Nostro blog wordpress. Moderator Wordpress Plugin è un applicazione desktop , costruito con Adobe AIR , che permette di visualizzare e moderare i commenti direttamente dal desktop. [...]

Ivo Jansch’s Blog: Debugging parameters for CLI apps using Eclipse PDT

Ivo Jansch has a new blog post today looking at a method he’s come up with to debug command-line PHP applications in Eclipse PDT with their needed parameters (not as a stand-alone script). I write quite a lot of command line utilities in PHP and luckily PDT [...]