Mar
5th
2008
It was announced just yesterday that BuddyPress, a project that aims to turn WordPress MU into a social network, has been acquired by Automattic to help continue its development.
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By John Lamansky
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Posted in News
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Mar
4th
2008
As time goes on, all the database operations performed on your WordPress tables (which are what store your blog posts and other data) will create what’s called “overhead.” To keep your database running smoothly, you can get rid of this overhead by “optimizing” your tables (similar to defragmenting your hard drive).
Here are two ways to do it. Read More »
Mar
3rd
2008
Feedburner is a free, Google-owned service that provides great feed statistics and services to bloggers and other feed publishers.
Here’s how to integrate Feedburner with a self-hosted WordPress blog:
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Mar
1st
2008
Did you know that the correct functioning of some plugins is dependent the “plugin-friendliness” of your WordPress theme?
The themes that come default with WordPress are okay. But if you’re using a theme designed by someone else, you might want to inspect it to make sure.
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Feb
27th
2008
Have you ever heard of Microsoft TweakUI or similar programs that provide a variety of options to tweak and finetune your operating system? Well, I thought, why can’t something similar be done for WordPress?
Introducing WordPress Tweaks: a plugin that adds a variety of extra toggle-on/off options to WordPress.
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Feb
26th
2008
Not all visitors to your WordPress blog will be familiar with RSS feeds or how they work, while some other visitors just don’t want to mess with using a feed reader. RSS isn’t the only push-delivery method out there: email subscription is another great service to offer to your visitors.
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Feb
19th
2008
Update (3/29/08): WordPress 2.5 has been released! Check out my extensive, updated WordPress 2.5 features list.
The release date for WordPress 2.5 is March 10! Here’s a sneak-peak of some of the planned features:
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By John Lamansky
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Posted in Updates
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Feb
18th
2008
According to Macromedia, the typical method of embedding Flash on a website is using the following HTML, replacing “myFlashMovie.swf” with the filename:
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By John Lamansky
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Posted in Tips
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Feb
11th
2008
Setting posts to auto-publish at a specified date in the future is a simple WordPress trick to help you “work ahead” with your blog, which is great for those times when you’re in the blogging mood. Here are the steps:
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By John Lamansky
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Posted in Tips
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Feb
8th
2008
Have you tried to enable “Pretty Permalinks” but the change doesn’t show up on your blog?
I have, and I’ve successfully used this tactic buried in the WordPress Codex’s Using Permalinks article under the “Fixing .htaccess Generation Issues” section.
This only applies if your web host is using Apache (if you aren’t sure, chances are it is, but you might want to check with your host first).
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