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wordpress_plugins

Favorite WordPress Plugins: WP Super Cache

April 25, 2009

There’s a few WordPress plugins that I just can’t live without. I like (and need) them so much that I’ve contributed to the plugin author to encourage them to keep developing the plugin. There’s only a few of these and the first I’ll write about is WP Super Cache. As the name implies it’s a [...]

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Fixing Plugin Auto-Update in WordPress 2.7.1

April 19, 2009

As much as I like screwing around with software, I spent some time this weekend looking into ways to spend less time maintaining my WordPress installs. WordPress has had the ability to automatically update plugins for awhile but it’s never worked for me.
Whenever I tried to do a plug-in update I’d get prompted to enter [...]

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Preparing For WordPress 2.5

March 10, 2008

WordPress 2.5 still hasn’t been released, at least not as I write this, but it is due this week (today actually). [Update: News that it's been postponed a week.] I spent some time on Sunday getting this site ready. Blog Herald published an article with changes theme and plug-in designers should expect. On Friday [...]

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Wordpress 2.3.1 Upgrade & Maintenance Mode Plugin

November 12, 2007

Wordpress 2.3.1 has been out for a little over 2 weeks and I finally got around to upgrading this site. In addition to the Wordpress upgrade, five of the plugins I use also had minor updates available so it was a good time to update them. The update includes 22 bug fixes including tagging support [...]

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Wordpress Plugins: Wordpress.com Stats and Google Analytics

June 30, 2007

When I redesigned my site at the beginning of June I added two new plugins for collecting site statistics. Both share the ability to exclude logged on site admins so my own site visits are ignored. The first is Wordpress.com Stats by Automattic (so sometimes listed as “Automattic Stats”) and the other is Google Analytics [...]

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Frustrations Follow Upgrade

June 4, 2007

I’m pretty happy with the way the upgrade went. The Bluehost outage was the only real problem. But like any other upgrade there’s always seems to be a few annoying but not terribly painful problems. These are the ones I’ve run into so far.

Search – Articles don’t appear in search results until I save them [...]

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Wordpress Plugin: Popularity Contest

May 14, 2007

Last week I started using a Wordpress plugin to track the most popular posts. Naturally it’s called Popularity Contest. I’m using version 1.2.1 which was last updated Nov. 5, 1006. I turned off some of the features in the plugin until I can get a feel for how it works in a production environment. A [...]

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Redirection via Wordpress Plugin

April 3, 2007

When I was moving my site to a new host I figured I’d have broken links, especially since I was making a change to the structure. So I had installed the Redirection plugin by John Godley at Urban Giraffe. As part of it’s functionality it tracks 404 erros and allows for the easy creation of [...]

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Mini Posts Plugin for Wordpress

March 23, 2007

I just added he Mini Posts plugin on this site. If you look over on the right sidebar you’ll see a “OS News and Rumors” box. Items shown in that box won’t appear in the main blog.
On my list of things to do I was looking for a way to add short posts to this [...]

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Wordpress Plugin For Importing New Blogger Blogs

March 23, 2007

I was looking for a way to import my Spam Chronicles blog, which is hosted on blogger, into Wordpress. I came across a plugin that can import from the new Blogger. It worked great for me, although I admit t having a small blog. Only 8 posts and no comments. Check out the Blogger RSS [...]

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Why (or Why Not) the WYSI-Wordpress Plugin

November 22, 2006

WYSI-Wordpress is a Wordpress plugin that replaces the built-in rich text editor. It’s based on TinyMCE.
After picking Wordpress to be the primary content management system for my site (yea, it’s not a real CMS but it was simple and has what I want for now) I wanted to move some entries I had in blogger. [...]

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