Version 1.6 of the WordPress Tweaks plugin adds 2 new tweaks:
WordPress Tweaks now includes a total of 23 toggle-on/off settings spanning SEO, administration, security, posts, and comments.
Version 1.5 of the WordPress Tweaks plugin has been released! This version boasts 9 new tweaks and a variety of other improvements. View the release history on the plugin page for more information.
Download the latest version here
If you run into any bugs, let me know in the comments!
Even if you have a catchy blog post title, it might not generate many clickthroughs in search engine result pages if it’s truncated with the familiar ellipsis in the SERPs. Here are two tips to avoid this:
It’s spring here in the northern hemisphere — why not incorporate your WordPress blog into your spring-cleaning routine?
Here are some ideas:
If you’ve changed post slugs, taxonomy slugs, or permalink structures, you likely created 404 pages (page-not-found URLs) along the way.
These 404 pages certainly aren’t helpful for visitors who stumble across them and can increase your bounce rate. It can be a particular problem if search engines, pingbacks, and/or internal and external links are sending traffic to the old URLs.
Here’s how to resolve the issue:
mdawaffe has posted some screenshots of the post revisions feature of WordPress 2.6. Very cool!
WordPress makes plugin deactivation simple enough — just go to the “Plugins” section, find the plugin, and then click “Deactivate.” But what if you want to get rid of a plugin for good? Here’s how:
Say you just disabled a plugin, and now your WordPress blog’s front-end says “Fatal error: Call to undefined function.” Part of your site may even be missing.
The problem is that your theme is calling on the plugin you deactivated. However, since that plugin is gone, the site displays an error and then stops rendering the rest of the page.
Here’s what to do:
As reported in my updated WordPress 2.6 features list, support for Google Gears in the administrative back-end has been added to the WordPress Trunk (i.e. the current development version).
According to the development ticket for the Google Gears patch:
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