Blog archives: wordpress
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Plugin Installation in WordPress 2.7
In the coming WordPress 2.7, it's not getting easier for users, but also for developers. There will be a page called "Install Plugins" (the name might change). Here, we have a page displaying many related sub-menus about plugins like: Search Plugins, Upload a Plugin, Featured Plugins, Popular Plugins, Newest Plugins, Recently Updated Plugins.
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Upcoming WordPress 2.7
I just downloaded new files for the upcoming WordPress 2.7, and gave it a try. You do not need to worry, because it will not be available in the next few weeks (Schedule: November 10, 2008). So, you do not need to upgrade near the future. I’ve wrote an initial post about WordPress 2.7 before. [...]
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24/7 Support from WordPress.com Team
A good news from WordPress.com team. Now, they offer 24/7 support for WordPress.com. Not long ago, our team was online 9 a.m to 4 p.m. PDT to answer your questions and keep your blog running smoothly. Soon after, we brought it up to 24-hour support, five days and week, so those across the country and across [...]
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WordPress 2.7
After upgrading to WordPress 2.6, I found no big problems. Everything looks fine. There are already many features offered, but do I use them all or try to get benefits from them? I don’t think so. I only use some some basic blog features. Do you? Well, no matter how many features, I do not [...]
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WordPress 2.6 Upgrades
Today, WordPress 2.6 is available with code name “Tyner”. You can read what features shipped in this version at WordPress Development blog. I have been following WordPress 2.6 since the beta release from Sub Version, and it looks good. So, I upgraded my WordPress install right away. The upgrade process — from WP 2.5.1 — [...]
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Remote Publishing Settings in WordPress 2.6
If you’re using desktop blogging client to publish your content, and you’re using latest WordPress version (2.5.1), you should have no problems at all. But, if you upgrade to WordPress 2.6, you should adjust some settings. I tried to publish using a regular method (setting up a blog, pointing to XML-RPC gateway, inserting username and [...]
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WordPress.com is Gears-enabled now
If you’re using WordPress.com service, you probably notice that there is a new link in the upper right of dashboard navigation. It says “Turbo“. This is a new feature offered by WordPress.com, telling that WordPress.com is Google Gears-friendly website. In my other blog (using WordPress from SubVersion), I already enabled this. And, I can take [...]
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Stop spammers and unwanted traffic
If you have your blog installed in your own webhosting account, there is another nice strategy to combat spammers and also unwanted traffic by Donncha O Caoimh (he is a WordPress developer). It’s because sometime antispam plugins like Akismet or TypePad AntiSpam are not enough. They can blocked comments, but do they also block unwanted [...]
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How’s your wp-config.php file?
WordPress relies on wp-config.php file to connect to database. Here, there are some basic settings about our WordPress installation like database-related information and language interface. When we upgrade our WordPress installation to new release, we can have our WordPress blog running without problem, even without touching wp-config.php file. But, in some release, there are some new [...]
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Set the order of WordPress Pages
Using WordPress, we can make non-post content easily. This non-post content is known as “Pages“. It is also easy to display the created pages, using wp_list_pages template tag. We can also manage the order of pages — when displayed in our blog — using sort_column argument inside wp_list_pages. For some people, it should be easy. [...]
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XML Sitemaps and All in One SEO Pack for WordPress
XML Sitemaps are available for WordPress.com-powered blogs. What all WordPress.com users need to do to get this feature? Well.. nothing. It’s already done automagically. (source) All in One SEO Pack is not dead. Right now, it is compatilble with the latest stable release of WordPress (WP 2.5.1). If you heard about the news that it will [...]
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WordPress 2.6 Features
The coming WordPress 2.6 (scheduled to be released on August 7th, 2008, or July 7th, 2008) will have more features. Most of you probably heard that about the probably-most-well-known Post Revisions feature. But, there are some other features that should be highlighted. Here are some of them I find (using WordPress from SVN, revision 8094): Post [...]
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WordPress Upgrade: 1.5.2 to 2.5.1
Yesterday, I helped my client to upgrade some of her WordPress-powered blogs. When I ugpraded WordPress — mine, friends’ or clients’, I found it very easy; and the process run smoothly. The only difference — when I updated my client’s — was that it was a big-jump upgrades: from WordPress 1.5.2 to 2.5.1. I used [...]
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TypePad AntiSpam Looks Great
After having TypePad AntiSpam installed in my blog, I noticed that it works very well. I had more than 240 spams filtered by this plugin. I’m satisfied with the result. But, I decided to deactivate it, and go back to my previous spam protection tool: WP-SpamFree. It does not mean that TypePad AntiSpam is bad, it’s [...]
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‘cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode’ error on WP-DownloadManager
I am currently working on a WordPress-powered site. One of its features is a download section. After comparing some WordPress plugins, I decided to use Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan’s WP-DownloadManager. When I use that plugin on WordPress 2.5.1, I got an error. It’s something like this: Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/.../wp-downloadmanager.php on line 308 Is [...]
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TypePad AntiSpam is here
Right, I have enabled TypePad AntiSpam plugin in this blog. It’s another antispam plugin created by Six Apart — a company behind blogging applications like Movable Type, TypePad, and VOX. I heard about this plugin few days ago, and it seemed promising, at least TechCrunch found it useful. :) Actually, I’m happy with my antispam [...]
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WP-SpamFree, a great plugin to deal with blog spams
When I jumped to WordPress from Movable Type, my first must-have plugin was Akismet. Those who use WordPress must be familiar with this plugin. Besides Akismet, there are many plugins and methods available like Spam Karma, Defensio, Bad Behavior, and many more. Then, I found another plugin besides Akismet. It’s WP-SpamFree (official site) And, it seems [...]
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WordPress and My Blogging Productivity
After moving from Movable Type and WordPress, I feel that my blogging productivity is increasing. I mean, I have more posts this month. Yeah, probably it’s not about the engine. It’s probably about the spirit of blogging. But, for me… if I have to be honest, WordPress has its own role for me. How? Here [...]
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WordPress 2.5.1 some nice plugins, Identicons and more
WordPress 2.5.1 is available. It’s recommended to upgrade to this version. More than 70 bug fixes and performance improvements. If you want to manage your blog categories (in WordPress), there is a plugin called Batch Categories. It will help us batch edit our posts, assign multiple posts to a category or delete multiple posts from a [...]
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Oh My Grid, free WordPress Theme
Today, I released a WordPress theme. This theme is called Oh My Grid. I designed this theme based on theme I use for my blog. If you run WordPress 2.5, you should find no problems — if you found one, let me know so that I can fix it. For more detail, go to Oh My [...]
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Cinila.com redesigned
My girl just redesigned her blog. Great job, La! Currently, her blog is running on WordPress 2.5.
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WordPress MU Hosts
http://wpmuhosts.com is a list of sites powered by WordPress Multi-User, just in case you want other alternatives than wordpress.com. Currently there are more than 80 sites. You can add yours too if you want. (via)
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Movable Type 4.15 Dashboard Design
WordPress 2.5 did a major redesign on its user interface — also known as Dashboard. And, it looks great. But, this time, I will not talk about WordPress. It’s Movable Type. Right now, Movable Type is on its latest stable release (Movable Type 4.1 — it’s free). For the coming release (Movable Type 4.15) there [...]
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Pimp your WordPress 2.5 Dashboard
One of the gret improvements offered by WordPress 2.5 is on the dashboard interface. Collaborating with Happy Cog studio, WordPress offers some great improvements. One of them is about managable widgets for dashboard. It means, we can manage what kind of 'widgets' should be presented on the dashboard.
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Modifying WordPress custom database error connection page
Reading what Derek Punsalan mentioned about custom error database connection page, his updated tutorial is very interesting. I mean, we (actually) can modify that error page into something better. In short, to have a custom page for database connection error page, just create a file called db-error.php and put it under your /wp-content/ directory. That's it.
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MovablePress
This week, I decided to switch from Movable Type to other blogging platform. This site (orangescale.net) is no longer uses Movable Type. For me, it's not an easy decision. I have been blogging using Movable Type for years. I still remember when I use Movable Type 2.66 in 2004 (wow, it's 4 years ago!). When WordPress released its very initial package in 2003, I also installed it. I watched this two leading blogging platforms. Probably, few years ago, WordPress was just a small piece of software compared to Movable Type.
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What you will see in WordPress 2.5?
Today, WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 1 was released. I did not wait any longer to upgrade, everything seems nice! You can see some new features offered by the coming 2.5 version at WordPress Development Blog. There are some nice features come to my attention. What are they? Here are some.
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WordPress 2.3.3: Urgent security release
There is a small but urgent security release for WordPress 2.3.2. If you use XML-RPC gateway for your WordPress, upgrade now. What's the issue?
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Upload More Files to WordPress.com
A good news for WordPress.com users. If you have account at WordPress.com, you do not need to worry again about the upload space now. Right, now you can store files up to 3,000 mb.
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No WordPress 2.4
Previously, I mentioned some new/improvements what would be offered in WordPress 2.4. The developer team decided not to release the 2.4 version. Before this decision, WordPress 2.4 was scheduled to be released on January 2008. (see its roadmap) Later, we will have WordPress 2.5 in March 2008. More time, more development means more solid product.
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Administration Panel Preview for WordPress 2.4
I was curious about the new admin interface for WordPress 2.4. And since I also use WordPress (not here, but for my other blog), I took the risk to upgrade my WordPress from the Subversion. The upgrade process went smoothly, and finally I can see the new admin interface. Well, because it's still in the development process, we can not have whole features yet.
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FAlbum and Flickr Photo Album plugins for WordPress
When I started to my other blog powered by WordPress, I wanted to have a section to display my Flickr photos. I decided to use FAlbum plugin.
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Akismet 2.1.2
New version of Akismet (blog spam filter plugin) for WordPress was released few days ago. This updated plugin will filter comment spams by their types. The word "types" here means comments and trackbacks.
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WordPress Yahoo! Shortcuts Plugin for Super Blog Post
Yahoo! Shortcuts Team and Crowd Favorite released a WordPress plugin called Yahoo! Shortcuts for WordPress. It's a plugin that intelligently enriches your blog post with great content from Yahoo! Maps, Finance, and beyond.
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Hello World!
No.. no, I am not switching to WordPress. I just setup another blog for myself. You can visit my another blog at http://thomas.or.id. That's right, it's powered by WordPress. Why not using Movable Type? Well, why not using WordPress? :)
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WPhone: Admin Interface for Your Phone
WPhone is a plugin that gives you an option to replace the default admin interface with one designed for your phone. There are two versions of the mobile admin interface.
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WordPress MU 1.3
Few days ago, WordPress MU 1.3 was released for public. This latest release is a sync of WordPress 2.3.1. So, many new features offered by WordPress 2.3.1 will be also available in WordPress MU environment. Great!
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WordPress 2.2.3 and WordPress MU 1.2.5
Are you WordPress user? These are some info for you. Last week -- I know, it's probably an old news -- WordPress 2.2.3 had been released. This release includes some bug fixes and security issues. Also, WordPress MU 1.2.5 is available to download.
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WordPress Updates
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Sandbox Designs Competition Winners
You probably have heard about Sandbox Designs Competition. Yes, it's a WordPress theme design competition. In this contest, all participants only needed to modify the stylesheet of the original Sandbox theme. This competition announced the winners.
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Sanitizing HTML tags in WordPress MU
If you run a Wordpress MU installation, you probably notice that there are some HTML tags that are stripped (removed after an entry was posted). For example, when you upload a picture, you want to add
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WordPress 2.2.1
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Handling error when WordPress plugin functions are not available
If we share our theme (someone uses our theme), and his/her WordPress installation does not have Gravatar plugin installed, the theme might be broken. There will be an error. Single page (where the gravatar/comment should appear) will stop loading. Why? Because there is a Gravatar plugin tag/function, but the plugin is not available.
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Asia Blogging Network joining the blogosphere
Yesterday, a brand new blog network called Asia Blogging Network was launched. I made this default theme has the capability to handle basic modification and all features that will be placed in all blogs.
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Modify WordPress MU suspended/archived page
How to change the message for the archived, or deactivated page in WordPress MU?
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Dashboard Editor Plugin for WordPress
Before Dashboard Editor plugin released, we can remove the WordPress Development Blog and Planet WordPress entries by modifying the core file. Now, you can modify it easily.
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Indonesian SEO Contest and WordPress.Com
I think, this kind of contest is a challenge. It seems that the interesting part is not about the contest itself. It is more about how the participants -- who opened an account at WordPress.com -- got their accounts suspended. The very first questions is: Why?
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WP Themes: Umalas and Chipshot
WordPress Theme: Umalas and ChipShot. Who is the original author? Didats is.
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List pages in WordPress
Variations of displaying list of pages in Wordpress.
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How to install WordPress theme?
This tutorial will show you how to install WordPress theme.
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