Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category
How to stop your WordPress blog from being hacked (or banned by Technorati)
I got banned from Technorati a long time ago. Apparently releasing free themes is bad (and get's lots of inbound links) only fair I guess
Anyway, Technorati have dropped off my radar recently, their constant redesigns and confused product are pushing people away, and since they've been dropped by WordPress I don't visit at all. The thing I am most interested in is the recent announcement that they're "suspending" blogs using old versions of WordPress.
Personally I feel this is ...
WordPress 2.5 Custom Login – get ‘em here!
A while ago I released a small plugin that ended up becoming quite popular, and then it broke. Not through any fault of my own (thankfully), but because the WordPress folks decided to redesign the WordPress admin when developing WordPress 2.5, changing pretty much everything in the process.
Then Kerry Webster came along and made his own version of the plugin which works with 2.5, and he kindly said I could nab his changes and add them to mine. ...
bm trackPing – comments, trackbacks and pingbacks separated
A year and a bit ago I wrote a tutorial on splitting the comments, trackbacks and pingbacks up on your wordpress blogs. Then a few months ago Daniel from DailyBlogtips wrote a post on the same subject (a couple people even mentioned my post in the comments ). I decided then a plugin was needed to do this.
The basics were easy but I was having issues calling the splitter function without user intervention, I like to make ...
My thoughts on premium WordPress themes
Obviously I'm biased since I now sell a premium WordPress theme, but I have posted my thoughts on premium themes over on Pro Theme Design.
The post was sparked by a comment from Matt Mullenweg where he said he disliked Premium themes because they don't further the WordPress community... and I disagreed.
In my opinion selling a WordPress theme is no different to designing a website for a client, or even developing a website for yourself.
To read the full article head ...
Pro Theme Design and Mimbo Pro
The last couple of months I have been spending my free time working on a new website and premium theme.
The website is called Pro Theme Design, and the theme is Mimbo Pro.
Pro Theme DesignPro Theme Design is a WordPress theme blog and premium theme store. You will be able to purchase premium themes and read tips on developing themes all in one spot. Yes, there's paid stuff but I also intend to give away freebies, for example ...
BM-Comment-Highlight Guide
In my excitement to get the BM-Comment-Highlight plugin out yesterday I forgot to tell you how to actually use the thing. Also since posting it yesterday I have though of another feature for the plugin so I have updated it accordingly.
How to use BM-Comment-HighlightTo use the plugin all you have to do is include a single php function call in your wordpress loop. This will return to you a string that you can use as a class in any ...
New WordPress Plugin – BM Comment Highlight
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned how to upload plugins to WordPress.org - and now I give to you, my second WordPress plugin - bm-comment-highlight.
Comment Highlight does exactly what it says on the tin. If you look around you will find that there are a lot of plugins that do what bm-comment-highlight does, namely add extra classes to comments so that you can make ...
A 3 step guide to getting your WordPress plugin onto WordPress.org
I recently got my bm-custom-login plugin accepted onto the Wordress plugin repository. In order to get it online I had to use subversion - something I've never used before.
I found the "using svn page" on wordpress.org to be rather intimidating. For example the first section "getting started" jumps straight into telling you what commands to type without even mentioning the basic things such as what to download. This seems to go against the simple software the WordPress team ...
