Trends are fun and fascinating, both online and off. I came across
Google Trends a while ago, but I never used it. So recently I decided to see how
WordPress measures up against its competition.
First, I compared WordPress to what I figure is its most direct competitor:
Movable ...
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Amazingly, I have never had to deal with podcast or audio files before in a
WordPress blog or site. But a recent client needed a way to easily and attractively add mp3 files to her posts.
At first I tried the
Podcasting plugin, but I didn't have much luck. ...
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Today,
WordPress Garage turns one year old. Hasn't our little baby grown up fast? Blow out the candles...
It is exactly one year ago today that I wrote my first post here. It was about
Jerome's Keywords Plugin, which was a popular ...
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The
WP-Sticky WordPress plugin allows you to easily choose to "stick" certain posts at the top of your blog. This can also be done via code, as I explained in a post a few months ago where
I ...
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Security Focus has reported
a security problem with the
Search Unleashed plugin. The plugin stores search queries, but does not validate stored data and sends it back "raw" to the browser.
Read more at SecurityFocus
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Blueprint CSS may just be the answer to all our CSS layout woes. Most, if not all, WordPress blog themes use CSS for laying out the design. But as any website or blog developer knows, using CSS for layouts can be one of the causes of early aging, high blood pressure, ...
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Darren Hoyt, that brilliant WordPress developer and designer, explains how you can
publish RSS feed headlines on your WordPress blog with a built-in WordPress function instead of using a plugin.
As Darren says, this code snippet is not intended for scrapers; it's for people who have ...
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I recently wrote about
a plugin that made the WordPress admin more accessible from an iPhone. Now there's the
iWPhone plugin/theme package that "automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s
iPhone and ...
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Have you ever been working on your WordPress blog's design, when you refresh the page only to find that it's decided to revert to the
default theme?
This has happened to me pretty often, and apparently I'm not the only one. Mark O'Neill says that
his WordPress ...
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If you're a true
WordPress fan, you've already got your
WordPress hoodie which is keeping you toasty on these cold winter days. But alas, a very important part of your life, your daily cup o' joe, is being encased by a generic mug with no meaning.
Well, those drinking-coffee-in-generic-mug days ...
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