Lunarpages have their design contest up and running this year - the deal is, in return for your hard work, you do get some exposure and the few links - and you might even win something as well…
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blogs, wordpress | Lewis, 16 May 08 | 
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Deserta is a fixed-width, 2 column theme with a right hand sidebar, enabled for widgets.
The comments are also gravatar-enabled and will work whether you’re using WP2.5 or lower. There’s also separation of user comments from pingbacks/trackbacks.
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I’ve got a WordPress blog, should I go to the trouble of setting up a (Google) sitemap for it?
No.
Why not?
The clue is in Google’s “locate web pages our spiders might not otherwise find…” - that’s what a sitemap does, and WordPress, if and when set up properly in its permalink structure will do the job just as well. Read more »
Admin Themes? What is that all about? Well, it’s obviously part of the masterplan, since the option became available.So what is the great attraction in having a skin to stare at while doing important things like editing posts, culling comments etc. Like skins for Firefox, these things do rather slow down productivity.
As usual, some clever plugins and articles have arrived, but… surely, only extreme narcissists need apply….
Jesse Garner (known as Jennifer to his friends) is setting out on the long march towards PR6 with BlogChemistry, promising the standard formula of WordPress themes and general PHP programming know-how…
He would always be welcoming of your support and am happy to offer mine to a mate… and we did let him borrow the “true sliding-doors” trick for the horizontal tabs.
A quick and simple way to knock out duplicates if you have 2 Loops on the page
The first loop will look something like this:-
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php, programming, wordpress | Lewis, 3 May 08 | Comments (0)
Further to the discussion here, over the source display of WordPress version, imposed on users of the default install of WordPress 2.5 - a plugin to regain a little control.
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plugins, security, wordpress | Lewis, 30 Apr 08 | Comments (0)
WordPress 2.5 has a vulnerability - undocumented, at this stage - with more information here
From the look of the files involved, it wouldn’t seem at this stage to affect WordPress 2.3.3 as such - 2 of these files don’t exist in that version (but this is only speculation, given limited info).
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security, wordpress | Lewis, 27 Apr 08 | Comments (0)
People (visitors) quite often enquire why there is a lack of detail in the various code snippets given as brief tutorials on this blog. And it’s true, often only the only relevant line of code is given.
Well, simple answer - I am a great believer in the principle:
If you have ask - you probably shouldn’t be doing…
programming, tutorials, wordpress | Lewis, 23 Apr 08 | Comments (0)
Here’s a very simple hack to exclude items from an RSS feed, and since the principle involves the Loop, by extension, for post output as well - it’s not great programming style or practice but it does the job.
Exclude by author - any post you don’t want to appear on the RSS (maybe you’re a bit shy about sponsored posts…) assign to their own author.
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programming, wordpress | Lewis, 21 Apr 08 | Comments (1)
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