Get ready to go naked. On April 9th, 2008, hundreds, possibly thousands, of blogs and websites will go naked in honor of CSS Naked Day. Join fellow WordPress bloggers in honoring web designers and WordPress Theme builders by going naked.
This is the third year of the annual CSS Naked Day which honors web design and [...]
In March of 2005, Scott Reilly of Coffee2Code shook up the WordPress Community with 7 Days of Plugins. During that week, Scott created and released:
Easy Post-to-Post Links WordPress Plugin: A shortcut code for referencing onsite blog posts by id or post slug name.
Obfuscate E-mail WordPress Plugin: Automatically disguise emails within blog posts and Pages.
Never Moderate [...]
I’m rarely totally and completely blown away by anything, and yesterday at WordCamp Dallas, John Pozadzides blew the whole crowd away with his new blog statistics program, Woopra.
John is a blogger, author of the popular One Man’s Blog, and an experienced web user, web company owner and business man. He understands the importance blog statistics [...]
March 18, 2008 – 11:44 am
I just published WordPress 2.5 Plugins Beware: Automatic Plugin Upgrade Problems on the Blog Herald and recommend that you check it out before using the new Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature in the just released Release Candidate 1 for WordPress 2.5 for beta-testers only.
The issue with the new Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature is explained by [...]
October 27, 2007 – 5:22 am
The In Series WordPress Plugin by Remstate has been updated recently. The Plugin makes writing article series and connecting them together in a series simple and easy, adding a link list of the articles in the series to each post within the series.
I’m a major fan of the popular, In Series WordPress Plugin, especially as [...]
October 26, 2007 – 5:37 am
The implementation of the new WordPress 2.3 built-in tag system has not come without some joy and pain. Here are some bits of news and tips to help you with the new WordPress tags.
What is the Difference Between Tags and Categories?
A category is a table of contents for your blog posts, segregating your posts with [...]
September 27, 2007 – 6:30 am
by engtech of Internet Duct Tape
As a reader of Lorelle On WordPress you might already know there is more than one type of WordPress blogging software, but most people who know what WordPress is have no idea there are different flavours of it.
WordPress
also called self-hosted WordPress, or WordPress.org
has one blog that you have full [...]
September 22, 2007 – 3:04 am
By John Pozadzides (Apollo XVIII Astronaut.)
So, in the past 2 weeks I’ve had 3 articles hit the front page of Digg. Let me just tell you, the onslaught of traffic can bring a server to it’s knees. Over the last many months I’ve learned a thing or two about tweaking WordPress, and while [...]
September 21, 2007 – 2:54 am
By John Pozadzides (An Amish goat herder.)
This is just a quickie to share what I’ve found to be the most useful plugins for administering stand-alone WordPress installs:
WP Admin Bar Reloaded - Sorry to toot my own horn, but I - and many other people - use this plugin more than any other. People keep [...]
August 31, 2007 – 10:22 am
As part of my two month-long party celebrating the two year anniversary of WordPress.com and this blog with guest bloggers, we’re just finishing up month one of non-stop blogging about blogging, and tomorrow begins a whole month of non-stop WordPress tips.
To help get you in the mood, here are some of the tips for [...]
Most WordPress blogs are protected by the best anti-spam triangle of comment spam defenders: Bad Behavior, Spam Karma 2 and Akismet.
However, little or nothing is available to help prevent registration spam.
Registration spam differs from comment spam as it comes through the WordPress login form, not blog comments. WordPress blogs which require registration to comment, contribute, [...]
We haven’t had an exciting WordPress contest in a while and now there are two. One hosted by Weblog Tools Collection for WordPress Plugins and the other for WordPress Themes designed with the Sandbox WordPress Theme.
WordPress Plugins Competition
Weblog Tools Collection announced the “WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0″. It began June 1 and runs to July 31.
Contestants [...]
Just a reminder. If you let your comment spam fighting stop for even a few seconds, comment spammers will get into your blog.
As many users are upgrading to the newest version of WordPress, their comment spam fighting guard is down as WordPress Plugins must be deactivated during the upgrade, and sometimes a few glitches in [...]
Chaos Laboratory has developed the LiveSig WordPress Plugin to automatically insert a graphic signature at the bottom of your posts.
According to the author, they were inspired by my signature at the bottom of my posts and wanted to come up with a way to add that automatically. They found MyLiveSignature, a free graphic signature making [...]
Fans of the awesome comment spam fighting WordPress Plugin, Spam Karma, should be shouting joy for Spam Karma 2.3 has been released.
Spam Karma fights comment spam on your WordPress blog, offering a lot customization to work overtime to stop and catch comment spam and trackback spam.
Many use it as a back up to [...]