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Disabling and Deleting WordPress Post Revisions

by Marty on July 28, 2010

version control

The default post revision functionality of WordPress is quite good. It keeps every revision you publish saved so that you can revert back to a previous version if required, and it also means that the two posts can be compared (via third party tools) to compare differences… handy if you’re editing somebody else’s work. I’ve [...]

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Adding New Widget Areas in Thesis

July 26, 2010
Widgets

Just when you though that you had enough of Thesis stuff… here’s some more. I get about 10 emails a day relating to help on blogs and at least half relate to Thesis, despite the fact that it’s very much a minority framework. The disproportionately large number of emails regarding Thesis is a good indication [...]

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Thesis and the Facebook Like Plugin

July 24, 2010
Facebook Like

One of the best ways of promoting your blogs is via Facebook integration. There are a number of ways of achieving this, but I’ve found that the most organic and least intrusive way of promoting a single post is the Facebook like button (not unlike posting a link to your Twitter stream). It isn’t associated [...]

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Thesis and Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFPP)

July 23, 2010
Thesis and YARPP

There are a large number of plugins that simply don’t work with Thesis for one reason or another – particularly widgetised plugins – but that doesn’t mean that you can’t use them. If you don’t know much about the thesis framework (no, it’s not a theme) then you’re likely to be unfamiliar with hooks. If [...]

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Add WordPress tags within your post

July 15, 2010
Tags

I was asked a completely random question via a blogging forum yesterday; “how do I integrate WordPress tags within my actual WordPress post“. Why anybody would want to do such a thing is quite beyond me. I can only assume they were fairly junior to WordPress because the purpose of the tags were to emulate [...]

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Short WP New Post Email Notification List

June 25, 2010
Wordpress email

There are quite a few plugins that add mailing list functionality to your blog, meaning that users can subscribe to mailing lists, new posts or new comment notifications – and so on. A problem arose when I decided that I wanted to add a notification system to a new blog (having never used such a [...]

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WordPress Post Missed Schedule

June 25, 2010
wordpress

I’ve got a lot of blogs – many that I don’t check for errors as often as I should. Some days, I’ll set aside a few hours and past in some posts that I’ll schedule to publish throughout the week so I can set and forget. I found an error in two of the them [...]

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Adsense Code within Content

February 8, 2010

There are plenty of WordPress plugins that manage ad placement. Here’s a couple of ideas that will insert ad code (or anything else) after a defined number of paragraphs within your post. The first snippet of code will insert adsense or other code after the first, second or any other paragraph. I use this same [...]

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A problem with the PHP mail function… and alternatives

January 16, 2010

I hate the php mail() function. I’ve had so much trouble with reliability that I’ve pretty much given up on it as a means of sending mail. I now use the SMTP class SwiftMailer almost exclusively with everything I do… and I never thought or bothered to investigated the range of issues that were problematic [...]

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My take on Short URL Services – Protect Your Brand!

January 13, 2010

You would have be living under a rock if you weren’t familiar with services that truncate long URL’s into shorter, more manageable links. For those of you that don’t know what they are, they take a loooong URL and shorten them down to fewer characters so they can be more easily managed for dissemination or [...]

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Heidi’s Video Confession – Sex, Lies and YouTube

January 29, 2009

A couple of days ago I wrote a blog about a crazy girl going by the name of ‘Heidi Clarke’ who was in search of a man she inappropriately flirted with over breakfast in a Sydney café after she was mistakenly served the man’s meal. When the man left the cafe he left his jacket [...]

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