As flawed as it is as a metric, many advertising programs still place significant weight on Alexa rank. Naturally if you are part of any of these programs you will want to improve your rank to maximize your earnings. Or if you’re like me you do it for the challenge, and the pleasure of [...]
If you’ve been holding off upgrading to Wordpress 2.2 you may want to reconsider. Mark Jaquith, one of the Wordpress developers has explained on his blog that 2.2 includes mandatory security fixes.
WordPress 2.2 is a mandatory security upgrade for WordPress 2.1.3 users. There will be no further releases in the 2.1.x branch. 2.2 includes [...]
I only just realised today that there are some undocumented features available in the Wordpress visual editor. Nothing too exciting but they do improve over the base functionality.
The added features include:
Text styles
Underline
Full paragaph alignment
Text coloring
Two varieties of paste (text and Word)
Formatting removal
Code cleanup
Custom character insertion
Undo/redo
You can open up these advanced features by using [...]
Matt Mullenweg let everyone know the news on his blog. Two weeks isn’t a very long delay and I’d rather see them take the time now and get everything nailed down, rather than scrambling to fix bugs after release. No one likes installing those updates.
The WP dev team has decided to hold back version [...]
If you visit your own site alot like I do, you’ll quickly find you skew your stats with all the extra pageviews and hits. There is an easy way to stop that from happening.
If you’ve played around with Wordpress a bit you’ll know it has different user levels. The most powerful user level is [...]
I installed the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin yesterday and went back through all my posts and tagged every single one of them.
Soon after I started noticing missing tags on posts that I was certain I’d already tagged. I reentered the tags and when I checked back a little later they had mysteriously disappeared again.
It turns [...]
For a long time I used to code on the fly, downloading files, making changes, then reuploading them to the server. It’s a nauseatingly slow way of doing things and if you make a mistake somewhere you’ve just killed your website.
So when I started getting serious about developing I switched to a local development environment. For most [...]
The Top Commentators plugin has now been installed.
I actually thought quite a bit about whether or not to install this plugin. It has helped a lot of people increase the amount of comments made on their blog but the quality hasn’t always followed suite.
The comments that people have left on this blog so far have all been of a high quality [...]
You may have noticed a few subtle additions to the blog. I’ve been meaning to get around to doing a big update but things keep coming up so I’m just going to do it in increments.
This is what I’ve added so far:
Subscribe via email - For those of you who don’t use rss you can now get [...]
I was just checking what pages Google has indexed from this site and I noticed that pages created by the Gregarious social bookmarking plugin were being crawled by the Googlebot, and have been indexed instead of the actual post.
Very annoying.
I think what is happening is if javascript isn’t detected the plugin will send the user to a separate page containing all [...]
