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WordCamp Phoenix

This weekend I’m off to Arizona for WordCamp Phoenix, where I’ll be talking about Tricky Migrations. This will be similar to my talk for WordCamp Austin back in December, but it’ll be more detailed and technical (and yet …

Posted on January 26 2011, 12:23 pm in Books, Events, WordPress · comment

Twenty Links, a Delicious-inspired Twenty Ten child theme

Since I got all my Delicious bookmarks imported, I needed a theme that more or less mimicked the Delicious functionality. For my installation, I’ve added scribu’s Query Multiple Taxonomies plugin, which provides a great Tag Drilldown widget to …

Posted on December 17 2010, 5:34 pm in WordPress · 9 comments

Import Delicious bookmarks as WordPress links or posts

So, a while back, I was working on a Delicious importer for WordPress. It’s an update of Guillermo Moreno’s plugin, which imports bookmarks as posts. I added an option to bring them in as links, which made more sense …

Posted on December 16 2010, 8:27 pm in WordPress · 16 comments

Content Audit 1.2: automatically mark things as outdated and send email notifications

The Content Audit plugin has been updated to version 1.2. It now has options to automatically mark things outdated after a configurable time period — 3 months, a year, whatever. You can then email the assigned content owner or the …

Posted on December 1 2010, 10:05 am in WordPress · comment

New plugin: Gallery2 to WordPress importer

This plugin allows you to import albums, images (with captions), and comments from a Gallery2 installation into your WordPress site. Albums will be saved as pages containing the shortcode, and images will be saved as attachments. The album hierarchy will …

Posted on November 30 2010, 4:22 pm in WordPress · comment

WordPress in the Workplace panel Thursday night in Dallas

Tomorrow night, I’ll be in Dallas for the #dfwwptech (WordPress Developer and Technical User Group in Dallas/Fort Worth) meeting, a panel on WordPress in the Workplace. For this event, I’m wearing a slightly different hat and will be speaking …

Posted on November 17 2010, 3:27 pm in WordPress · 2 comments

Testers wanted: Content Audit, now with email notifications

I’ve been working on adding email notifications to Content Audit. It now has options to automatically mark things outdated after a configurable time period — 3 months, a year, whatever. You can then email the assigned content owner or …

Posted on November 5 2010, 3:52 pm in WordPress · 1 comment

Beginning WordPress 3 available for Nook

Beginning WordPress 3 is now available in Nook format. Enjoy!…

Posted on October 26 2010, 3:15 pm in Books, WordPress · 2 comments

Beginning WordPress 3 for Kindle; upcoming events

Beginning WordPress 3 is now available in Kindle format! And it’s 56% off at the moment. Enjoy! And thanks for your patience. Apress has had a PDF ebook available since the book was published in late June, but since …

Posted on October 20 2010, 9:15 am in Books, WordPress · comment

WordPress Hidden Gems: Places to Get Help

You probably know about the support forum at wordpress.org. It’s the first place to go when you need to find an answer to a question or to see if other people are experiencing the same weird problem you’ve encountered. …

Posted on October 1 2010, 8:59 am in WordPress · 3 comments

WordPress Hidden Gems: Debug Mode

If you accidentally introduce a syntax or fatal error in one of your template files, you’ll probably see the dreaded white screen of death when you visit your home page. In some cases, even the admin screens will go blank. …

Posted on September 30 2010, 9:18 am in WordPress · 3 comments

WordPress Hidden Gems: Child Themes

Child themes are modifications of other themes. They have their own directories and you upload them just like a separate theme, but they depend on their parent themes, and they won’t work if the parent is not installed. All your …

Posted on September 29 2010, 9:09 am in WordPress · 2 comments

WordPress Hidden Gems: JavaScript Libraries

WordPress includes a number of JavaScript libraries because it uses those libraries in the administration screens. They’re available for you to use in your themes and plugins as well. The libraries include jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, and SWFUpload…

Posted on September 28 2010, 9:59 am in WordPress · comment

WordPress Hidden Gems: Hiding wp-config.php

Your configuration file contains your database username and password, so it’s important to keep this file secure. If you are installing WordPress in your web root directory (such as public_html), you can move your wp-config.php file to the parent …

Posted on September 27 2010, 9:42 am in WordPress · 5 comments

WordPress Hidden Gems: Maintenance Mode Message

Yesterday, you saw . You can also customize your maintenance mode file, maintenance.php. This is also located in your wp-content directory and is shown to your visitors while you’re upgrading WordPress core files or plugins. Note that it’s a …

Posted on September 24 2010, 9:12 am in WordPress · 2 comments
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