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From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Smashing Magazine recently released a WordPress “plug-in that uses Twitter to show avatars in comments in WordPress blogs”.
While I like the idea, the implementation leaves a little bit to be desired. Comments to the release post indicate that some effort is being made to address the shortcomings in the plugin code, but as yet those [...]

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Look, it happens. A visitor is going to land on your site trying to get to a page or post that doesn’t exist. The question is this: “Are you going to drive your visitor away to another site, or are you going to try and help them find what they’re looking for?”
Hopefully, you chose the [...]

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If you blog and you’ve burned your RSS feed to FeedBurner, you’ll be interested in this.
Since Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner, Inc. on June 1, 2007, we have been moving the FeedBurner application to Google hardware, software, and data centers. This allows the application to scale and perform like most Google applications and integrate easily with [...]

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How To « WordPress.tv

by Steve on January 18, 2009

in On WordPress

Well…I was going to spend quite a bit of time making some how-to videos for my WordPress clients. Now I don’t have to! WordPress has gone and done it for me.
There are tons of videos on the site; I encourage you to check it out.
How To « WordPress.tv
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How Does WordPress Work?

by Steve on January 17, 2009

in On WordPress, PHP goodies

WordPress is, at its most basic, very simple. It is a PHP script that displays a blog entry, or series of entries based on information contained in the URL. The display is controlled by PHP files that collectively make up a theme.
A Basic Theme
WordPress themes contain at least two files: index.php and style.css. The file [...]

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Here’s a quick tip for you — if some function in the WordPress Dashboard (especially WP v2.7) isn’t working for you, or if you make some changes to your WordPress theme and you’re not seeing them on your live site, clear your browser cache!
This one simple thing can solve a number of problems for you. [...]

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Website security is critical, on that I’m sure we’d all agree.
But it can sure be a pain in the ass sometimes. Can I hear a “hell YEAH!”?
So what do you do when WordPress tells you, “You don’t have permission to do that“? Or when in some fashion you see a message that WordPress is “Unable [...]

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