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, 2008 | 
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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 April, 2008 | 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 April, 2008 | 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 April, 2008 | Comments (1)
There’s a new Alexa rank algorithm out - we previously knew Alexa rank to be meaningless except when it came to people like Text Link Ads using it as part of their calculation.
The main point appears to be less reliance on toolbar stats - as Alexa puts it, data is now gathered from a variety of sources, whatever they may be…
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blogs, search | Lewis, 19 April, 2008 | Comments (3)
With Technorati now engaged in a misguided scheme to remove [edited] suspend WordPress blogs below 2.3.3 or as many as they can find, and also given the large numbers of spammers who locate WordPress using an identical method - it’s definitely time to go a little more anonymous:-
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blogs, programming, wordpress | Lewis, 14 April, 2008 | Comments (7)
Anyone know good Flickr plugin for WordPress? - shouldn’t be too difficult to put a set into a sidebar, now that the Flickr API has firmed up a bit.
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plugins, programming, wordpress | Lewis, 14 April, 2008 | Comments (5)
Keep it simple - KIS - is fairly obviously good advice for any WordPress theme builder.
Keep it universal - there are a lot of people out there, running all kinds of different system, doing different and strange things with the files, any complexity is increasing the risk of breaking the theme for them…
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