Blogsolid.com is back from the dead. It was acquired recently by someone who hopes to resurrect the long-silent blog. With 658 RSS subscribers (including myself) still on the clock, I think it shouldn’t be too hard.
One of my favorite parts of Blogsolid has always been Imar Krige’s design, which isn’t going anywhere, according to the announcement.
The post introducing the new owner is worded okay and is free from glaring spelling errors, so I’m fairly optimistic. 
I didn’t know this until recently, but Tweetmeme has an API for displaying the number of times and URL has been retweeted. A quick request to http://api.tweetmeme.com/url_info?url=[the URL] will return an XML, JSON or PHP response. You can pass the full URL as the…
jParse is a jQuery plugin that can asynchronously fetch an XML file (AJAX, in other words) and parse it for display. It works in all modern browsers, plus Internet Explorer 6+, and the file is only 1.8KB in size. It’s basic usage looks something…
WP Super Cache is commonly used to speed up WordPress blogs and reduce server load. In essence, it stores static HTML copies of pages on your blog so they will load faster the next time they are accessed. It works fairly well, but with…
Digging into WordPress has recently published a new article on securing WordPress. It covers setting up optimal database privileges, adjustments you can make to your wp-config.php file, changing the table prefix, changing the default admin username, and a couple other things. Of course, when…
Here’s an interesting and little-mentioned CSS property: white-space. With it you can prevent an element’s contents from line wrapping, create pre text, even pre text that wraps when necessary. The syntax is like this: The above example is fairly self-exaplanatory; it prevents the text…
This month’s featured WordPress theme is Glassical, once again brought to you by Smashing Magazine.
Collis Ta’eed, of Envato fame, posted an interesting link to Twitter recently. A new website called WP Plugins that is trying to be “The WordPress App Store.” What exactly are they doing? They’ve set up a site reminiscent of the WordPress.org plugin repository, but…
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