This month, Project B-2 Bomber is hitting 25k visitors. That’s up 9k from last month – this is a big gain for one of my sites. Today, I had a major epiphany: I figured out what B-2 really means to people who visit.
Don’t get me wrong: I’ve always known what the site is about. We [...]
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Konstructors has released a new admin theme for Wordpress 2.5+ that lets you:
Set a color scheme you like (they offer several options, or an easy interface to create your own)
Rearrange the admin page in a very logical fashion – you can tweak this to suit you..
The way they rearrange the page is even better than [...]
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So Wordpress 2.5 doesn’t come with the ability to auto-update the whole installation after all. It also has a tendency to eat your posts if it doesn’t like the way you click publish. Gah!
I’ve found a plugin that upgrades your install automatically, but it’s got some bugs. Plus, one that I found – but there’s [...]
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My recent attempt to write Wordpress plugins failed, but it gave me my first semi-clear view of Wordpress under the hood. I saw big chunks of coding to replace features that didn’t need replacing. The whole system struck me as bloated and patched together.
I will stick with it until the time comes to invest in [...]
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I’ve chimed in before on some good reasons why internet earners might not want to blog under their real names. I just thought of another: because you don’t want your current or future “day job” employers to find out what your real passion is when they look you up online.
People have lost out on jobs [...]
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I’m discovering some plugins and patches that make Wordpress 2.5 a lot less annoying.
Remove Max Width – get back your full screen! No more wasted white space on the right!
Reveal IDs for WP Admin 2.5 Plugin – adds a column of Post IDs back into the Manage Posts page. Very handy for people who use [...]
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If you want to run a poll on a Wordpress blog and rig it, it’s very easy:
Download the Democracy plugin, which is secure now
Install it and set up your poll (plugin comes with instructions)
Log into your server control panel and choose phpMyAdmin.
Browse the “wp_democracyA” table.
There you should see the answers you’ve given. Note what the [...]
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NOTE: if you’re sticking with Wordpress 2.3.3, do not upgrade Lighter Admin Menus! Stick with version 2.3 of the plugin.
If you are moving up to Wordpress 2.5 and using patches to fix where it took a few steps backward (but so many steps forward), say hello to Lighter Admin Menus version 2.5.8. This is a [...]
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I got inspired by Eric23’s version of edit-form-advanced.php, which put the categories back into the sidebar in Wordpress 2.5. I played with the code further, and managed to get the tags over there as well, which is something I always wanted. I made a modified version of it, which I was happy with until I [...]
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For the past few months, I’ve let Project B-2 Bomber coast. It was clear to me it wasn’t going to become a big earner in the foreseeable future, so why keep putting in the effort to build it?
As a result of this coasting, six weeks went by during which my team and I posted maybe [...]
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