Category Archives: WordPress
Nov 18, 2008 by Matt | Posted in WordPress
Have you ever opened up your website stats application, Google Analytics for example, and looked at the “referring sites” section? There you are shown the websites that people come from to visit your site the most.
Now wouldn’t it be useful if you could detect where a user is coming from when they visit your WordPress blog, and display a customized message to them? Perhaps a reminder to subscribe to your RSS feed, or to Stumble your post.
WP Greet Box does just that. After dropping the plugin into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory and activating it, you just have to add a <?php wp_greet_box() ?> template tag where you want the messages to appear in your theme.
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Nov 12
I bet you didn’t know that WordPress already includes several common JavaScript libraries, ready to be called upon with a simple template tag. Libraries such as jQuery Scriptaculous Tiny MCE Thickbox Want to use jQuery in your theme, for a tabbed box, an AJAX…
Nov 9
WordPress 2.7 will be shipping within the next couple weeks, bringing with it a variety of improvements and new features. Now that it’s feature set is pretty much set in stone, let’s start talking about version 2.8. What kind of features do you want…
Nov 6
This month’s featured WordPress theme is Color Paper from Smashing Magazine.
Nov 5
The first beta of WordPress 2.7 is out, and I have to say it’s starting to look good. A couple things that bug me, but overall it’s coming along great. Before downloading the latest trunk off the WordPress SVN repository, I listened to the…
Nov 2
Remember the Revolution WordPress themes? (I certainly do, I used to make some good money off their affiliate links…) Well, there have been some changes happening. The old Revolution premium themes are no longer available, and they have been replaced by a set of…
Oct 30
Thumbnails can really liven up an otherwise plain list of posts, and add a bit of visual interest. By associating thumbnails with posts you gain a lot of flexibility that you would not have if you just relied on images in post excerpts. This…
Oct 29
Just a reminder, the Revolution premium WordPress themes will no longer be available for purchase as of midnight on October 31st. With the launch of the free Revolution Two themes (post coming soon!), the designer has decided to discontinue the old themes (which are…
Oct 28
If your WordPress-based blog gets a lot of comments, it can be a pain to keep up on them. Approving/spamming comments is sadly something that has to be done frequently, otherwise the unmoderated comments tend to pile up. Let’s face it, if you run…
Oct 26
The WP125 Ad Management Plugin has gained quite a sizeable following over the past few months, with nearly 4,000 downloads logged in WordPress/Extend as I write this. (Note that there were likely a lot of downloads before it was accepted into the repository.) Overall,…
Moderate Comments With Adobe AIR
Oct 28If your WordPress-based blog gets a lot of comments, it can be a pain to keep up on them. Approving/spamming comments is sadly something that has to be done frequently, otherwise the unmoderated comments tend to pile up. Let’s face it, if you run…