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...]
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...]
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...]
A Long List Of Free (and almost free) Stuff
November 25, 2008 By 1 Comment
This is part of my endless list of free stuff from the web. Believe it or not, most of the graphics offered on the sites listed below are free. HOWEVER they are all offered under different licensing agreements- some require a link back to the designer's website, some required copyright credits, others require nothing at all. Make sure you read the licensing agreements carefully. Don't abuse an artist's intellectual property rights and they will keep sharing their work with … [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...]
I Didn’t Write This….
September 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
the real credit for the content of this page is Mandarin Design. I copied and pasted all the example code onto this page. Inline Pull Quotes You don't have to define the pullquotes in the style sheet. The code is short and doesn't take the many keystrokes. It's just another paragraph in CSS. ...it depends on what we are highlighting or lowlighting... ...this will look like some of the pullquotes and styles we seeina magazinelayout... … [Read more...]
FeedWordPress Plugin and Blogger
August 16, 2008 By
They don't play nice. Try this fix. It works. http://www.iross.net/blog/2007/02/12/feedwordpress-and-bloggercom/ wp2.5.1 and wp2.6 revolution city theme 1.0 also- if feedburner is strippinng formatting delete this line var $strip_attrs = array ( array('[a-z]+', 'style'), http://wordpress.org/support/topic/160988 … [Read more...]
