Posted in Uncategorized on May 12th, 2008
Just noticed that Google maps now has information on bus stop location, each with a list of alleged buses available in the infomarker.
Not good news if you actually wanted to catch a bus, but the saving grace for anyone concerned about the all-seeing eye of the 2 Mr Google’s deep in their underground lair, is […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2008
Having a lot of work stacked up and nothing fun to do, I decided to ignore the work and give Habari a test installation on a localhost, just play around with it for an hour or two and see what the deal was with the core code.
To be scrupulously fair, these vague observations are the […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 10th, 2008
I’ve got a WordPress blog, should I go to the trouble of setting up a (Google) sitemap for it?
No.
Why not?
The clue is in Google’s “locate web pages our spiders might not otherwise find…” - that’s what a sitemap does, and WordPress, if and when set up properly in its permalink structure will do the job […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2008
So this is the brave new world… Let’s be totally honest (for once) - I’ve never seen a bigger pile of dren.
u add my blog as one of your links, and i add your blog as one of my links i got pr2 blog
Now you will get a free ebook every day
(2nd prize, 2 ebooks)
What […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2008
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 […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2008
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 […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2008
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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See more here: WordPress PHP - Post duplicates in 2 loops
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2008
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.
View original here: WordPress mask version display plugin
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2008
 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).
Here is the original: WordPress […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2008
Another addition to my line of really nice web 2.0 wordpress themes. This one is my first fluid width theme. It’s super clean and easy to modify and work with. Have fun with it!
Demo Theme
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See the rest here: DeFender Premium Wordpress Themes - Web 2.0, Widget Ready, Adsense, 3D […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2008
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 […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2008
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 […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2008
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 […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2008
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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See original here: Feedburner RSS stats
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2008
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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Go here to read the rest: Your WordPress blog - Google neighborhood
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