Great Plugin To Upgrade Your WordPress Blog
Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Jerome.
Since WordPress version 2.7 a new feature has been created-the easy one click upgrade has been added to the core, making blog updates extremely easy. It is a great new feature but unfortunately making the update process even too easy! I wish the WordPress developer would give the user an option to backup their database [...]
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Automattic Acquire A Spell Check Plugin
Posted on 13. Sep, 2009 by Jerome.
The creators of WordPress Automattic (who already own Akismet, Intense Debate, Poll Daddy, Gravatar, VIP, VideoPress, P2 Theme) have just added another name to their group. “After the Deadline” is a spell checker plugin that provides spell checking, style checking and grammar checking. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The plugin is already [...]
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How To Switch Off The Flash Uploader
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by Jerome.
To upload any media files WordPress gives you two options to choose from: the Flash uploader or using your browser uploader.
The Flash uploader set by default has been a source of many problems with various clients (myself included). It is mainly caused by older versions of Flash or running old versions of WordPress.
I have found [...]
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Analytics360 Brings Google Analytics Stats Into Your Dashboard
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Jerome.
I have discoverd a new WordPress Plugin called Analytics360 created by the people of MailChimp.com. It lets you check your Google Analytics stats directly into your dashboard. The plugin is really easy to install and you don’t need to have a MailChimp account to use it. Simply synchronize the plugin with your Google [...]
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How To Highlight Search Terms With jQuery
Posted on 25. Aug, 2009 by Jerome.
Make a better search experience for the user by highlighting any search terms with jQuery.
Simply open your functions.php file and copy and paste the code below:
function hls_set_query() {
$query = attribute_escape(get_search_query());
if(strlen($query) > 0){
echo ‘
<script type="text/javascript"><!–mce:0–></script>
‘;
}
}
function [...]
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High Quality WordPress Theme Frameworks
Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by Jerome.
Creating your own WordPress Theme can involve a lot of time and effort. Thankfully a lot of good WordPress Theme Frameworks can help you to start quicker with a good base.
Creating your own WordPress Theme can involve a lot of time and effort. Thankfully a lot of good WordPress Theme Frameworks can help you to [...]
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Press This – New Podcast On WordPress
Posted on 15. Aug, 2009 by Jerome.
A new radio show devoted to WordPress came to life a few weeks ago named Press This. The show is orchestrated by the WordPress master wizard Joost DeValk from Yoast.com and is published through WebmasterRadio.fm.
The radio show will keep you updated on the latest WordPress related news and has some great guest interviews from some [...]
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Let Google Host Your jQuery Files
Posted on 27. Jul, 2009 by Jerome.
I’m all the time looking ways to improve blogs performance. Today I came accross this great plugin called “Use Google Libraries“.
It will improve your blog speed performance and save you some bandwidth on your server by instead of pulling your jQuery files from your WordPress install you will use the same file pull from from [...]
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