How about WordPress blogXML?

Weblogs have become more sophisticated than an index page that spits out the 10 most recent posts - people are even using them for real corporate ventures… and they want control over their data.

With the advent of WordPress 2.5, I got to thinking about blogs, posts, XML and the present state of things. Now, there’s galleries and enhanced shortcode tags, excellent in themselves, but necessarily ad hoc improvements, bolted on where feasible. read more »

Wordpress Default Theme

The idea resurfaces for a change in default theme, poor (old) Kubrick is seen as tired, also the issue of themes with added function (known by some as functionality).

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WordPress as Mini-me

So, Technorati has left the Dashboard - not many tears to be shed for that, I have never quite understood the allure that Technorati exerts (exherted) - to be replaced by Google Blogsearch, with an interesting _GET url.

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Add a podcast quicktag to Wordpress editor

This tutorial adds a button to the Wordpress post/page editor in code view, to add a link to a podcast file in your post and therefore also your RSS feed - so that you should end up with this:-

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Use WordPress to podcast

I’m that ancient that I’m not quite sure web pages should have images on them, but if you do want to try this new-fangled (in 2005) podcasting business, it’s pretty simple with WordPress.

Strictly, what a podcast is not is a link to a media file from a web page. Yes, large media websites, eg bbc.co.uk think that’s exactly what it is, but what do they know…

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Web Hosting Guide

There is no one perfect web hosting company - they will always do something to annoy you, finally. It’s one of the natural laws of the universe.

The one I have been using for years - very small, with the suspicion that it might be two blokes in a bedroom - has brilliant customer service where they reply almost immediately at all times, but a terrible record of tinkering with configs and not telling anyone about it - and of course, like all of them, are not good at putting their hands up and admitting their mistakes when they are in the wrong.

Kaushal Seth of WordPress Themes resources, having had a sudden downtime on all sites, is compiling a best web hosting guide- you can offer any praise that might be available or, definitely, tell your horror stories and offer a few warnings, because that is always a bit more interesting to read…. if it’s not happening to you.

WordPress child page menu

Here’s a nice and neat code snippet - making use of the template and conditional tags to output unordered list items for all child pages under the current page - with links - and just the thing to stick in a theme’s sidebar.

Best used in conjunction with is_page, of course, so…

<?php
if(is_page()){

$parent = ($post->post_parent == 0)? $post->ID : $post->post_parent;

wp_list_pages(’child_of=’.$parent.’&title_li=’);

}

?>

Wordpress Page Menu code

As requested, the code for page menu tabs - leaving open the possibility of using the ’sliding doors’ technique - put it in a theme’s functions.php, and the usage, if not too obvious, would be something like…

<ul id=”tabmenu”>

<?php echo buildMenu(); ?>

</ul>

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Visualscope

Web Design, Seattle - with a visually impressive portfolio of launched client sites, Visualscope Studios are a web design and internet consulting company based in Seattle, USA - offering web site design, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, e-commerce and advanced web development.
The other satisfactory note in this area is the distinct lack of jargon, which ecommerce sites tend to be so fond of - for the life of me I don’t understand quite what ROI really means, (so we’re not talking about profit here?) - unless all ecommerce guys and gals are totally addicted to acronyms - fortunately, VisualScope are not - Web site resource

Post Ordering

Well, if this works, and there’s no reason to suggest it wouldn’t, (save that having looked into the issue it is quite a tricky bit of programming to catch all exceptions) it would be quite useful.

A lot of people wanting WP for business applications, ie not a pure blog, are keen on more control over displaying posts, and do become slightly unhappy when told no can do (quite like that).