Archive for December, 2007

Unique and useful WordPress Plugins at Urban Giraffe

| December 31, 2007 | 0 Comments

Urban Giraffe has a list of amazing plugins that the guy behind the site, John Godley, developed. Many of these plugins are really unique, and I haven't seen anything like them anywhere else. Here are the ones that I find most interesting, and I hope to try out soon:

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It’s time to upgrade WordPress

| December 30, 2007 | 7 Comments

I logged in to my blog today only to find a disturbing little message at the top of the screen: "A new version of WordPress is available! Please update now." Yes folks, despite the goal of not releasing any new versions until 2.3, we now are faced with WordPress version 2.3.2, which fixes ... View Post

Make your WordPress comments more user friendly with a mini TinyMCE editor

| December 30, 2007 | 16 Comments

WordPress comment boxes tend to be dry, text editors. That's kind of ok for people who know HTML, but even I get frustrated when I want to add a link in someone else's comment box. Here's a really easy and pretty solution: Advanced TinyMCE Editor. This editor add a simple yet useful toolbar ... View Post

My posts are getting swallowed up by WordPress

| December 28, 2007 | 9 Comments

Over the past few days, I have written two posts on two different WordPress self-hosted blogs that have disappeared when I pressed save. I couldn't retrieve them. I wrote one of the posts straight in WordPress' text editor, and the other one I wrote in Windows Live Writer. You would think I could go back ... View Post

Using PHP to alternate background colors for comments or posts in WordPress

| December 26, 2007 | 21 Comments

Some blogs have alternating background colors for their comments and posts, i.e. a green background for every even comment and post, and a grey background for every odd comment and post. How do they do that? Alternating Comments Styles To alternate comments, add the following code to your comments.php template file, under where it says <?php ... View Post

Let it Snow WordPress plugin for self-hosted WordPress blogs

| December 25, 2007 | 0 Comments

Not to be outdone by WordPress.com's announcement that users can add falling snow to their blogs until January 2 in honor of the holidays, widgeo.us has "whipped up" a falling snow plugin (who whips up a plugin?) for self-hosted users of ... View Post

Hello Dolly WordPress plugin with a new and darker twist

| December 24, 2007 | 7 Comments

We all know (and love or hate) the Hello Dolly plugin that comes bundled with every WordPress installation. In case you aren't familiar with Hello Dolly, it places snippets of lyrics from the songs in the Hello Dolly movie in the corner of your admin. While ... View Post

ZDNet says WordPress not clunky, but also not CMS

Miriam Schwab | December 21, 2007 | 20 Comments

Larry Dignan over at ZDNet writes about the media's relationship with CMS systems, particularly his own past experiences with custom-built CMS systems. He says that "when it comes to ease of use, a blog platform beats or [sic] average CMS hands down." So he ... View Post

Does Movable Type’s move to open source spell trouble for WordPress? Nope.

| December 20, 2007 | 0 Comments

Movable Type has announced that they are now, and forever will be, open source. At first, when I heard this, I got nervous. Does this mean that WordPress is on its way out? Could it be that now ... View Post

WordPress vulnerability means don’t save sensitive information in drafts

| December 20, 2007 | 2 Comments

Secunia has reported the following vulnerability in WordPress 2.3.1:

Michael Brooks has discovered a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and to disclose sensitive information. The application does not properly restrict access to posted drafts

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