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What we can look forward to in WordPress 2.5

| March 18, 2008 | 2 Comments

Normally I don't get excited about WordPress updates because they tend to be pretty incremental (and cause a lot of stress). WordPress upgrades usually add a few features and a lot of bug fixes, which is great but not very exciting. But ... View Post

Make sure WordPress doesn’t switch to the default theme

| February 11, 2008 | 7 Comments

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 ... View Post

WordPress plugin for better admin from iPhone (and other mobile devices)

| January 15, 2008 | 0 Comments

Here is a WordPress admin plugin for better access to the admin in mobile phones, in particular the iPhone. Here is the plugin description:

Mobile Admin adapts the WordPress admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones. The iPhone is the primary target (and only supported device)

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Manually order your Pages with My Page Order WordPress plugin

| January 10, 2008 | 4 Comments

Recently I wrote about a WordPress plugin that allows you to exclude certain pages from appearing in your list of Pages without coding your template files. The My Page Order WordPress plugin gives you additional Page flexibility by allowing you to manually order your Pages without coding. Update Feb. ... View Post

Exclude categories from certain pages with WordPress plugins

Miriam Schwab | January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

There are many situations where you want to make sure that certain categories only appear on some pages, and not on others. Here are a few WordPress plugins that can help you do this without having to hack your template files: Front Page Excluded Categories WordPress plugin - this plugin ... View Post

Page Link Manager WordPress plugin: exclude Pages without coding

| January 8, 2008 | 2 Comments

The Page Link Manager WordPress plugin creates a place in your admin where you can select which Pages will appear in your list of pages, and which will be excluded. This means that your clients can easily do this themselves, and it saves you a bit of trouble too.... View Post

Faviconize your WordPress admin

| January 6, 2008 | 4 Comments

The WordPress admin doesn't have a favicon. That means that when you're working with a bunch of tabs open, it's hard to identify which one is for your WordPress admin. Well, Simply Basic has the solution - simply add one line to wp-admin/admin-header.php that calls the favicon of ... 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

Yahoo Shortcuts WordPress plugin

| December 17, 2007 | 0 Comments

Yahoo Shortcuts WordPress plugin View Post

Plugin creates web form that allows users to post to WordPress without registering

| December 2, 2007 | 10 Comments

If you want to create a multi-user or multi-author WordPress blog, it generally means having others register on the site, and then log in and write new posts. This has a few disadvantages:

You may not want to allow unlimited and unrestricted registration on your site, where unknown people gain access to your back end.

The

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