Well folks, the time has come again to update your WordPress sites. And, like always, the update isn't really optional, since it covers some security issues in addition to bug fixes.
I love WordPress - it's easy to use, flexible, has a large and robust user community, and ...
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Since I discovered the Page Links To plugin, it's become one of the plugins that I use most on my sites, particularly those where I'm using WordPress to create a CMS. I've reviewed it already (see the review here), but it seems that ...
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If you are not an uber-geek, read no further; this is not for you. Even I, who consider myself semi-geeky since I find code fun, cannot understand what possessed someone to do this. But since I try to overcome my own tastes and present stuff here that I think is weird since someone else ...
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After trying out many of the plugins available for helping WordPress users embed videos in their posts and Pages, the one that I find to be the best is Viper's Video Quicktags plugin. Once activated, you can select which types of videos you want to become available on the ...
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I'm no Flash expert, so generally if I'm dealing with Flash it's Flash movies, which are .flv files. However, some people might need to insert Flash objects into their posts or Pages, and these files have the .swf suffix.
Someone on a forum recently was on a search for the easiest and least destructive way ...
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I love icons. They're just so...cute. I also find that, when used in the right places, they really add a nice touch to blogs.
Iconlet is an icon search engine. It's minimalist home page has a search field, and you enter the type of icon you are looking for. ...
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Update February 20, 2008:The Hebrew no longer works on this blog, even with the trick I described below. Ido Fishman left a comment with a link to this section of the Codex that describes a gut-wrenching, hair-whitening way to get different languages to work on one WordPress blog. Since ...
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A new mod to the Excerpt Reloaded Plugin means that now you can make sure that your excerpts are properly formatted with links, bullets, paragraphs and more. Read on...
For some reason which I still don't understand, excerpts in WordPress are displayed without any HTML formatting. So ...
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Of course there are problems. I should have followed my own rule of not fixing things that aren't broken.
Here are the problems:
After an upgrade, funny symbols appear all across the posts. Generally they appear where apostrophes are in words (see my post titled "Aizatto's Related Posts Plugin"? for a
