Archive for the 'WordPress' Category

Upgrading to WordPress 2.5 plus a new theme

Since it seems like every other blogger using WordPress has already mentioned it I figure it’s about time I put up a post about the release of WordPress 2.5.
While I’m at it I went ahead and upgraded this site to the new version of WP and changed themes to one called ProSense. [...]

bbPress 0.9 Released

The bbPress folks have released version 0.9 of their forum software.
It looks like the primary reason for the upgrade is so that those that have integrated bbPress and WordPress can upgrade to WordPress 2.5. There are also several new features including an installer, more RSS feeds, and Gravatar support. The bbPress [...]

GoCodes redirection plugin

Have you ever needed to give out a URI from a blog post? Sure, you can do it, but the URIs are usually pretty long. And forget about it if you’re saying it over the phone or on a podcast. A Wordpress plugin called GoCodes looks like it may be able to [...]

Using the WordPress post slug for SEO

WordPress makes it easy to have friendly URIs. Under the Options -> Permalinks tab you have several options. Of the options, I would suggest using one with %postname% as part of the URI.
But why?
If you read any web design blogs or forums you know that the words in the URI are important for [...]

Add a preview to your WordPress comment box

Yesterday I was browsing around the blog world and came across this posting on keeping a clean desk. I found the topic interesting enough to leave a comment, but that’s not really the point. What I saw as I typed was that below the comment box was a preview of what I was [...]