I have a confession - I love WordPress. It's just so cool. Anyway, I stay up with the changes by downloading them at http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/. I don't actually browse there and download the files with a web browser but I use Subversion which is a code control system for developers who are - developing systems and need a way to keep track of program code Continue Reading
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Upgrading PHP
A couple of months ago I was trying out the PicLens WordPress Plugin. After installing it and trying to activate it I received a message that said, "This plugin requires PHP 5.1 and you have 4.x. So what to do? After investigating a bit using Google and instant messaging my host provider, the solution was to add this line: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php to the Continue Reading
Four WordPress Themes and Two WordPress Plugins Go Into A Bar…
When you first start blogging in WordPress it can be a daunting task just to pick a theme. Themes are what makes your blog look somewhat unique or completely unique. WordPress itself started its theme directory back up with some pretty nice free themes. However, there are also free themes scattered throughout the Internet as well, all you have to do is a Google search for Continue Reading
WordPress Theme Previewer
While working in the latest version of WordPress and trying out different themes I noticed they implemented a theme previewer that shows you what the theme you're about to select will look like before applying it. This is great because in previous versions of WordPress you could only see a thumbnail view of the theme, click on the thumbnail and it changed your theme. Now Continue Reading
WordPress Plugin Random Redirect
Matt Mullenweg creator of WordPress released a neat little plugin called Random Redirect. It allows your blog readers to randomly discover your blog posts. Matt says the Random Redirect plugin: Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion. You can also specific in the URL Continue Reading