This is my first shot at writing a sidebar widget for WordPress. Not much complexity here but it does its job well.
About
I recently added a forum to this site and needed a clean way to display login / logout, register, and profile links. The sidebar seemed the most likely place to have these [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]