Thu Tu’s Blog

I decided to join the Do Follow movement, which is... the opposite of the No Follow movement. The nofollow attribute was intended to discourage comment spammers by telling search engines not to trust links posted by visitors in blogs and forums. However, the spam problem has not gotten any better.
Despite the relentless efforts by spammers [...]

archive.php (in the Wordpress theme folder) is the file that handles the output of posts grouped by categories, tags (in WP 2.3) and by dates. Since I have a wide variety of topics, I figured it would be helpful to provide feeds specific to a reader's particular interest(s). The problem was I didn't know how [...]

I just upgraded to Wordpress version 2.3. It was daunting for me because I customized so much code, and installed so many plug-ins. To be on the safe side, I upgraded a copy of Wordpress on my laptop last night to see if there were any issues. I had to edit the theme I'm using, [...]

My Wordpress blog url structure for posts is of this pattern: /blog/year/month/date/post-title/
Ignoring the fact that a post could also show up in /blog/ and /blog/category/ and other places, the same post could show up in:
/blog/2007/
/blog/2007/07/
/blog/2007/07/21/
/blog/2007/07/21/post-title/
The duplication is not as big of a concern (to me) as the possibly poor user experience when someone encounters one [...]

For reasons I will explain in another post about Linked Custom Search Engines, I wanted to generate a page that would include all of my posts in their entirety. There didn't seem to be a ready-made solution. I found a plugin but it didn't show all posts the way I wanted. This is different from [...]

I haven't been able to find clear instructions on how to add widgets to Wordpress. This widget tutorial for developers was as close as I could get, but it applies to the Widget Plugin before Wordpress included Widgets in v 2.2.
I've figured out a system that has worked for me. I can't say that it [...]

I coded a widget to help Spread Firefox via a Wordpress widget. Here is the code:

function wp_widget_firefox($args) {
extract($args);
?>
<?php if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') !== false) {?>
<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
<?php echo $before_title; ?>
<?php _e('Try Firefox'); ?>
<?php echo $after_title; ?>
<ul><li>
<a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=YOUR_ID&t=210"><img border="0" alt="Firefox 2" title="Firefox 2" src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/firefox2/firefox-spread-btn-1b.png"/></a>
</li></ul>

<?php echo $after_widget; ?>
<?php
}
?>
<?php

}
I honestly don't know if this exact code will work [...]