By Ryan on December 31, 2009
So it’s the end of 2009. I addressed this year in a recent post of mine and I really don’t have anymore to add to that. But instead, I’d like to give my thanks to a bunch of organizations and software.
MooTools
MooTools has been my javascript fasination since the dawn of time and I still love [...]
Posted in Abstract | Tagged 2009, Google, Microsoft, Mootools, Wordpress
By Ryan on December 5, 2009
While I was glancing at my page’s source code recently, I noticed that there were two meta-tag descriptions. One contained strings from plugins: Share and Enjoy and Possibly Related Posts… from Sociable and YARPP. The second meta-tag description was from All In One SEO but it actually contained the description. So something weird was going [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged descriptions, meta-tag, plugins, Wordpress
By Ryan on November 5, 2009
Even your neighborhood database needs a checkup every now and then. Over time, Wordpress Databases can get dirty. You can fix this easily of course if you want to manually run the Optimize function the database via phpMyAdmin but there is another solution.
Step 1 – WordPress Database Backup
This is the first step. You’re going to [...]
Posted in Tips, Wordpress | Tagged backup, database, health, optimize, Tips, Wordpress
By Ryan on September 24, 2009
Yes, it is that time again. I love Wordpress to death. Yet sometimes I find it a bit silly. There must be a solution to this gripe at the very least because somehow, Facebook and many other huge sites solved it.
The Gripe
It’s about CSS and Javascript. It’s about how just about every CSS and Javascript [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged compress, gripe, minify, Wordpress
By Ryan on September 14, 2009
I like to read over my blog posts from time to time, especially at the older entries since they always make me laugh. I have noticed a lag between the request time and complete rendering. Aside from the mass use of css and javascript from theme and plugins, I thought it’d be a good [...]
Posted in Tips, Wordpress | Tagged counter, query, tip, Wordpress
By Ryan on June 19, 2009
You can help test the Wordpress Stats 1.5 plugin by reading by reading Andy Skelton’s blog post about the new update. In brief, you can expect a no-frame expierence. I’ve always been a bit annoyed with that frame sitting there all the time, the new version looks very clean and pretty similar, just without that [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged 1.5, beta, plugin, stats, Wordpress
By Ryan on March 17, 2009
I was trying to update to the new version of Hybrid Theme (0.5) and I had a problem with that. For some reason, the preview page would simply be blank. When you take a look at the source for the page, you do see a single html comment that mentions that the page was not [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged 0.5, hybrid, theme, Wordpress
By Ryan on January 28, 2009
I’m a bit late on this wordpress Holiday but at least I didn’t miss it. Today, the 28th, is Thank a Plugin Developer Day.
I thanked the authors of my two favorite plugins at the moment, WP Super Cache and SyntaxHighlighter Plus.
I didn’t have a the chance to send thank-yous to every plugin author I could, [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged day, developer, plugin, thank, Wordpress
By Ryan on January 23, 2009
I heard about WP Greet, a wordpress plugin, from the Wordpress blog. I installed it after I thought it would great to have on my own blog. I installed it and now, I just noticed something annoying about it. I got a ping back from somewhere and I found some funny text in it,
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Posted in Reviews, Wordpress | Tagged blog, problem, SEO, Wordpress, wp greet