Admin Themes? What is that all about? Well, it’s obviously part of the masterplan, since the option became available.So what is the great attraction in having a skin to stare at while doing important things like editing posts, culling comments etc. Like skins for Firefox, these things do rather slow down productivity.
As usual, some clever plugins and articles have arrived, but… surely, only extreme narcissists need apply….
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WordPress Admin Themes
Jesse Garner (known as Jennifer to his friends) is setting out on the long march towards PR6 with BlogChemistry, promising the standard formula of WordPress themes and general PHP programming know-how…
He would always be welcoming of your support and am happy to offer mine to a mate… and we did let him borrow the “true sliding-doors” trick for the horizontal tabs.
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BlogChemistry
A quick and simple way to knock out duplicates if you have 2 Loops on the page
The first loop will look something like this:-
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WordPress PHP – Post duplicates in 2 loops
Further to the discussion here, over the source display of WordPress version, imposed on users of the default install of WordPress 2.5 – a plugin to regain a little control.
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WordPress mask version display plugin
 WordPress 2.5 has a vulnerability – undocumented, at this stage – with more information here
From the look of the files involved, it wouldn’t seem at this stage to affect WordPress 2.3.3 as such – 2 of these files don’t exist in that version (but this is only speculation, given limited info).
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WordPress version 2.5 – security fix
People (visitors) quite often enquire why there is a lack of detail in the various code snippets given as brief tutorials on this blog. And it’s true, often only the only relevant line of code is given.
Well, simple answer – I am a great believer in the principle:
If you have ask – you probably shouldn’t be doing…
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WordPress and Programming Tutorials
Here’s a very simple hack to exclude items from an RSS feed, and since the principle involves the Loop, by extension, for post output as well – it’s not great programming style or practice but it does the job.
Exclude by author – any post you don’t want to appear on the RSS (maybe you’re a bit shy about sponsored posts…) assign to their own author.
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Customized WordPress RSS Feed
There’s a new Alexa rank algorithm out – we previously knew Alexa rank to be meaningless except when it came to people like Text Link Ads using it as part of their calculation.
The main point appears to be less reliance on toolbar stats – as Alexa puts it, data is now gathered from a variety of sources, whatever they may be…
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New Alexa rank algorithm
So, this blog, and a couple of others, each get about 40% of their RSS subscribers using Google products – this according to Feedburner’s stats panel.
Google products meaning the snappily-named Feed Reader or iGoogle, the widgetised, personalised front page, clone of Netvibes and a few others…
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Feedburner RSS stats
Pros in the SEO business will laugh hollowly at this, but don’t forget about the related site search function – it’s in the webmaster tools, or just type it in.
http://www.google.com/search?q=related:www.mysite.com
It does no harm to try out some different TLDs
http://www.google.nl/search?q=related:www.mysite.com
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Your WordPress blog – Google neighborhood
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