Category Archives: Blogging

WordPress release archive

Didn’t know this was around, but looking for older versions of WordPress to test plugins against I found the WordPress release archive.  Looks like you can find pretty much every release they’ve put out.

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How to wrap a SMF forum in WordPress

After spending the better part of yesterday getting a forum setup with the same layout as its parent WordPress site I thought I’d share a couple of tips along the way. And I picked a less efficient way, including wp-blog-header.php … Continue reading

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My first public WordPress theme – Christine

Meet Christine. This is the first WordPress theme that I’ve done that’s getting released. I’ve done probably a dozen themes for various sites but never sat down until now with the intent of doing one to share. You can download … Continue reading

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ForumsBlogsWikis.com

Yup, another blog. If you read back through the archives here you’ll see that I have a real problem with starting new projects. Not that I have a problem starting one. I have a problem starting too many. Right now … Continue reading

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Moving WordPress categories

Almost every posting you read on how to “correctly” run a blog says you shouldn’t have too many categories. I was guilty of that problem, so I trimmed down my categories quite a bit with the help of a plugin … Continue reading

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robots.txt for WordPress – short & sweet

On my first WordPress site I went and added all of the files I didn’t want search engines indexing to my robots.txt file thinking that it was necessary to keep them out of the SERPS. But WordPress makes it easier … Continue reading

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100,000,000 spam postings blocked

Akismet recently passed the 100,000,000 mark on spam messages blocked. Based on the assumption that you spend 1 second per spam message that hits your blog, they estimate that they have save blog authors 27,777 hours by blocking these postings. … Continue reading

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Fonts via RSS

I’ve started working on a new blog called DailyFont.com. The intent is to have a new font posted every day (future dated posts are great for this), but I’m not sure I can get a new one up every day. … Continue reading

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Jump-To Plugin

Sometimes a multipage posting can get out of hand, especially since WordPress just lists page numbers ’1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5′. Enter the Jump-To plugin by UrbanGiraffe. It allows you to add a drop down box … Continue reading

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Yup, I started another blog

I’ve started a new blog at HackPhoto.com where I plan on writing about photography, Photoshop, and the like. It just goes to prove I cannot limit myself to one project at a time.

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