Jul 2

So we’re up to WordPress 2.6 beta 2 – any sign yet of slimming down the jquery and the editor…? – had a client last week who simply couldn’t get the Write Post page loaded on their machine… admittedly a Mac on dialup, the former of which I’m sure makes no difference whatsoever.

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WordPress 2.6 beta 2

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Jun 26

WordPress requires web hosting

…of some sort – so you can either

  1. Buy some hosting from someone else,
  2. Get some hosting from someone else for free (various alternative exist here… mostly involving someone else’s ads)
  3. Or you can do it all yourself – set up a server on your desktop, and run your own WP site, until you switch your computer off… (more…)

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    A question about WordPress Premium Themes

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Jun 19

Well, I never noticed that – having naturally been with Firefox since it was Phoenix and used to explode your machine with great regularity I don’t often need to touch other fine browser products….

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Browse Happy?

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Jun 14

screenshot.pngIn the the style of what was called for a while in 2006 a tumblog and would do fine for transferring Twitter utterances (if ever deemed worthwhile) Deadsimple is a 1 column fixed width theme, with all the meta info and links tucked away in the enabled for widgets footer.

The theme is compatible with WP 2 upwards, including 2.5 and 2.5.1, and has been tested on Internet Explorer 6,7, Firefox 2 and Opera 9.
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Free WordPress Theme: DeadSimple

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Jun 4

I wonder whether there are any indices yet, as to whether the newish wondrous free Movable Type is making any dent in the supremacy of WP…

The pro nay-sayers, of which I would never consider myself one, have as their convention wisdom that 2.5 was the inevitable disaster – what goes up, must come down – the trickle away will surely become a flood…
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Movable Type back on the march?

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May 26

screenshot2.pngWell, it’s mountains and snow yet again…. Alpen is a 2 column fixed width theme, with a right-hand sidebar, enabled for widgets.

User comments are separated from pingbacks/trackbacks, enabled for gravatars – and will work whether you’re using WP2.5 or lower – you won’t need the WordPress gravatar plugin.

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Free WordPress Theme: Alpen – Mont Blanc

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May 8
WordPress Admin Themes
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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

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May 3
BlogChemistry
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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

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May 3

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

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Apr 30
WordPress mask version display plugin
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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

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Apr 27
WordPress version 2.5 – security fix
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 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

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Apr 22
Customized WordPress RSS Feed
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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

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Apr 16
Your WordPress blog – Google neighborhood
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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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