Category Archives: Web

Preview short URL’s in comments

By admin | Published: January 14, 2010
Yesterday Keith Dsouza wrote in Weblog Tools Collection about the problem with short url in comments which are used by spammers to try to get their comments approved. The problem with short urls is that in order to know where the link points you have to click on…
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Default Post thumbnails plugin

By admin | Published: January 7, 2010
With the support for post thumbnails in Wordpress 2.9 you can now display a thumbnail image for each post in your site, depending on the theme you are using and if you enabled support for post thumbnails for it. But if your site already has hundreds of posts, adding a…
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Post thumbnails and default images

By admin | Published: December 22, 2009
In my previous post about post thumbnails with posts excerpts I shared code to display the first image of your post as a thumbnail in your main page and it displayed a default image if the post didn’t have any images in it. Now that Wordpress 2.9 was released…
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Wordpress 2.9 – Carmen

By admin | Published: December 21, 2009
After a short beta testing Wordpress 2.9 “Carmen” is out and available for download or you can use the automatic upgrade (Tools > Upgrade) . This release is named in honor of the jazz vocalist Carmen McRae. Some users have reported issues with this version and…
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Wordpress checklist before going live

By admin | Published: December 16, 2009
Changing this site backend to Wordpress made me think again the list of things to check before flipping the switch to “Live”. Some are obvious, some are

Templates

404.php
If your theme doesn’t have a 404.php template it will redirect to the main page, and the visitor will wonder…
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Query Debug Info plugin

By admin | Published: November 26, 2009
I wanted to have this plugin when I was beginning with Wordpress and I did have to use multiple loops in one template. This simple plugin adds some overlay tabs in the left side of the screen with information about the constants of the theme like (WP_CONTENT_DIR, WP_PLUGIN_DIR, TEMPLATEPATH,…
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Bitly shared links plugin

By admin | Published: November 21, 2009
This will be the first plugin I will publish, so it will be a little simple and maybe unpolished. I built this plugin because I see that all the links posted in twitter are shortened by bit.ly or a similar service. There are many plugins that insert at…
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Display the post image with your posts excerpts

By admin | Published: November 11, 2009
You spent hours looking for that image that perfectly illustrates your post, but on the main blog page you only display the excerpt. All that work and the impact of the image is lost because the image is only displayed when the reader is viewing the full post. You can…
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