For the last couple of days, I have been trying to update a client's wordpress website and I am encountering yet again the mother of all problems, the root of every headache when it comes to web design. I run across the issue every single time - whether I am moving a domain and corresponding website to a new server or trying to upgrade a premium wordpress plugin. At the bottom of every complications, I find that 90% of the time, there is a set of username/email address and password … [Read more...]
Preview: WordPress 3.0
April 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
I was very excited when I read of Wordpress 3.0 multi-site network capabilities, so much that I had to install it to find out how it worked. How could I not? Wordpress 3.0 even has its own meme. Don't blame the kitteh. Wordpress Beta Plugin I first installed the Wordpress Beta Plugin on one of madbadcat.org's test sites and upgraded to the latest build of 3.0. … [Read more...]
Keeping Up With Google: Speed a Factor in Page Rank
April 13, 2010 By 3 Comments
I was reading my morning news website yesterday when I ran across a link to an article entitled "It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor" posted at SearchEngineland.com . It seems that Google has responded to results of numerous studies over the years that concluded that even a half second delay in delivering content will result in shorter. For instance, as part of their own internal experiment, Google slowed down their own search results by 100 to 400 MILLISECONDS, … [Read more...]
Slidepress- A Fully Customizable, Dynamic Media Player for WordPress
March 2, 2010 By 6 Comments
Slidepress is just the latest offering from Dominey Design, a web development company in Atlanta. Their main focus- AKA obsession- is Slideshowpro- a quick and easy and versatile Flash-based slideshow application available as a Flash Component and a standalone xml-driven swf. Plus they offer an web application called Slideshow Director- a database-driven image and video management application for installation on your won web server. Dominey's vision is vast- when you purchase any of their … [Read more...]
Review: Crossbrowsertesting.com
February 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
Since I have already sang their praises, this is more of an introduction to Crossbrowsertesting.com than a review. Best described as a Browser Compatibility Lab, this online service offers a place to test a website on just about every browser- operating system combination. It offers two types of testing: interactive (to test ajax, javascript, and flash) and screenshots (which verifies layouts across all browsers). The site offers three (3) pricing plans which all include access to their … [Read more...]
WordPress Plugins for the Media Library
January 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
Getting The Most of Wordpress' Media Library After a couple of years of faithfully using Dean's FCK Editor, we changed over to Tiny MCE Advanced Plugin- mostly because we wanted to take advantage of the new timthumb auto-thumbnailer coding of our new Arthemis Premium theme. (Though if I had read this post by Justin Tadlock, Boy Genius, I would have probably stuck with my Studiopress theme...) Tiny MCE Advanced Plugin This plugin adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, WordPress’ wysiwyg … [Read more...]
Jan. 18, 2010: Ping Services
January 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
I was looking at a 112mg error log last week and i discovered that almost all of the errors were related to long gone ping services. I was googling to find the lastest working ping list. It can be most frustrating trying to hunt down a list of current ping services. As of today, these are working. http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php http://ping.feedburner.com http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php … [Read more...]
Four Companies with Great Customer Service You Should Know About.
January 14, 2010 By 5 Comments
The new year introduced me to new vendors and reinforced my belief in 2 old ones: crossbrowsertesting.com, browsershots.org, polurnet.com, and arthemis premium wordpress theme. This is a story of great customer service. Arthemis Premium Wordpress Theme Some time last fall, i decided that i wanted to change the DigitalAppleJuice theme to Arthemis Premium wp theme by Colorlabs Project. I am still a huge fan of the Revolution- Studiopress themes- all my client themes are based on them … [Read more...]
True Blue SEO: 3 Things I Learned About Keywords
July 7, 2009 By 9 Comments
After a year and half of Digitalapplejuice.com, I have learned 3 things about keywords. 1. Keyword stuffing is just bad SEO. There are thousands of websites and consultants out there that promise to produce immediate results with their almost mystical knowledge of SEO and their clairvoyant understanding of the use of keywords. They will talk of keyword density and keyword combinations, alt text keywords and on and on and on. The truth is much more complicated than this. If you are not … [Read more...]
WordPress garbage code: MS Word is BAD.
December 5, 2008 By
And not in a good way. If your blog looked just fine until you published that last post, if your blog post suddenly makes looks weird and the blog no longer lays out properly, if you suddenly find that you made the background of your post area dissapear, then you probably have a bad case of msword garbage code. let's peek at the source code for a healthy happy webpage: Healthy wordpress text should look like this: notice the occasional < p > or < br/ >? … [Read more...]
Truncating Excerpts Dynamically
November 1, 2008 By
i couldn't make this work- may have to do with $recent = new WP_Query("cat=27&showposts=1"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post() i wonder if i replace that with <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> hmmm... i emailed the author and asked where he placed the code within the loop. he said it should work just about anywhere. http://wordpresshacker.com/changing-excerpt-size-dynamically/ … [Read more...]
