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Posted by Glitch on May 22nd, 2010
I am designing a new theme for Wordpress and within this theme I wanted to use the accordion effect that comes with the jQuery library. By default Wordpress comes packaged with a jQuery function but because the jQuery libraries are updated constantly I decided to call my own jQuery libraries from a CDN. CDN stands for content delivery network, large enterprises have their own CDN’s where they host copies of popular script. In the following example I’m using the CDN of Google. What I’m going to do is make a function for functions.php that unloads the default libraries, registers the new and updated ones and makes them available for use.
Read how to use updated jQuery libraries for the accordion effect ...
Posted by Glitch on March 8th, 2010
If you own a successful Wordpress blog you know that managing all the comments you receive every day can be quite some work. Today I read about a desktop application that can make your life easier. The application is called WP-Comment-Notifier. The application displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have new comments and allows you to manage/reply/edit your comments directly from your desktop.
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Posted by Glitch on January 20th, 2010
I use a plugin called Robots Meta. This plugin makes it really easy to control the way robots / spiders crawl and index your blog. You can for instance prevent indexing of your login, register and admin pages by adding noindex robots meta tags or disable your author and date-based archives if you don’t use them. These are just two of many other features. When setup correctly it will optimize your blog for better search engine indexing.
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Posted by Glitch on January 18th, 2010
The last couple of days I posted tutorials on how to separate trackbacks from comments and how to display them in different tabs using jQuery. In the last tutorial about the jQuery tabs I also posted a solution on how to correct the comments count by excluding trackbacks and pingbacks. However, on my own theme I wanted to take it a step further and show separate counts for trackbacks and pingbacks as well. I had a tough time trying to find a proper solution for this though, but I finally found something which deserves mentioning here.
Read how to add counts for comments, trackbacks and pingbacks ...
Posted by Glitch on January 16th, 2010
A couple of days ago I wrote a simple tutorial on how you can separate trackbacks from comments. This tutorial didnt do much with the presentation as it only displayed the trackbacks below the comments. In this article I’ll describe an easy way to create different tabs for comments and trackbacks. You see this tabbed layout being used in a lot of Wordpress themes lately as it is a clean way of presenting comments and trackbacks separately.
Continue reading on how to create tabs ...
Posted by Glitch on January 15th, 2010
Hotlinking is a term used when an image hosted on your webserver is linked on another website. Every time the image is viewed on that other website it is loaded from your webserver. This is a bad thing because is uses your (precious) bandwith and creates server load on your webserver without you actually benefiting from it.
There are however ways to prevent this from happing.
Read more about how to prevent hotlinking ...
Posted by Glitch on January 10th, 2010
So, you want to show general statistics on your blog or want to know data about your visitors. Then you are probably looking for ways on how to gather and / or display these statistics. Well, you have come to the right place. In this article I’ll be giving a lot of suggestions for plugins and webservices that can help you with these statistics. The suggestions are divided up into three categories, the first is about showing statistics to your visitors and the second is about obtaining statistics on these visitors for the sake of improving your blog. The third are plugins that can do both.
Find out more about statistics for Wordpress ...
Posted by Glitch on January 10th, 2010
One of the most important new features of the recently released Wordpress version 2.9 is the possibility of adding thumbnails to posts. There where already hacks and plugins out there for older versions of Wordpress to add thumbnails to posts but this has now become a standard feature. However to get this to work it does require a couple of edits in your theme files. This post describes the basic actions to enable this feature if your theme does not support post thumbnails yet.
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Posted by Glitch on January 7th, 2010
In this article I’ll describe various methods of creating and adding a favicon to your website or Wordpress blog. Below is a short explaination on what a favicon is for those who are unfamiliar with the term.
A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon is a pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage. Webdesigners or bloggers can add such an icon to their website. Browsers that provide favicon support typically display a page’s favicon in the browser’s address bar and next to the page’s name in a list of bookmarks.
Finding the right favicon
There are a lot of resources for finding a favicon that suits your website or blog if you don’t want to create one yourself. Here are a couple of websites that supply download ready favicons.
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Posted by Glitch on January 6th, 2010
This article describes a way of separating trackbacks from comments in your Wordpress theme when you are using Wordpress 2.7+. I have noticed that a lot of tutorials on the internet that explain how this is done are based on older versions of Wordpress. These tutorials don’t work anymore because Wordpress uses a different way of displaying comments now. This new way makes it easier to separate trackbacks from comments but the outdated tutorials can be very confusing for inexperienced users who want to separate trackbacks from comments in their own Wordpress theme and rely on these tutorials.
If you don’t know the difference between comments and trackbacks but you have become interested, please read this first before you read on.
Comments vs. trackbacks
At the time of writing Wordpress by default (in the default theme) does not separate trackbacks from regular comments. When kept together the trackbacks are shown as links and snippets of text in the same list as the actual comments posted by users. Separating the two can greatly improve the user experiences for the people who comment or read the comments on your blog and it looks much cleaner in your theme as well. You see more and more theme designers are implementing this feature in their themes but I think it should be done by default. If you run Wordpress 2.7+ and you want to separate the trackbacks from the comments in your own them then follow the instructions below.
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