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Awesome WordPress Theme: Atahualpa

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:14:56 +0000

I just changed the theme of my blog to Atahualpa. I liked it when I first saw it because of the ability to have a rotating roster of random heading images. It’s really cool because it is so configurable that I don’t have to edit the theme files themselves.

The theme comes with some nice [...]

Installed Google Friend Connect WordPress Plugin

Thu Tu Koelling — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:16:40 +0000

Google just made the Google Friend Connect API available to developers. What made this interesting was that it would make it easier for site admins/developers to integrate Friend Connect into existing login systems. As a WordPress user, I was excited to see that there was a plugin for my blogging platform of choice. An added bonus [...]

Do Follow

Thu Tu Koelling — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:38:57 +0000

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 [...]

How to Add RSS Feed Link to archive.php for WordPress

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:11:39 +0000

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 [...]

Upgraded to WordPress version 2.3

Thu Tu Koelling — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:41:13 +0000

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, [...]

Reduce Duplicate Content in WordPress Archives with robots.txt

Thu Tu Koelling — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:18:02 +0000

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 [...]

How to Display All Blog Posts

Thu Tu Koelling — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:30:20 +0000

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 [...]

How I Create Widgets for WordPress

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:04:40 +0000

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 [...]

WordPress Widget: Spread Firefox

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:30:37 +0000

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 [...]

How to Minimize Duplicate Content in WordPress Blog

Thu Tu Koelling — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:48:31 +0000

After reading this post at Google’s Webmaster Group, I was inspired to find out how to stop displaying full content on pages where posts were listed in categories, archives, etc. I am not so concerned about duplicate content as much as I don’t like for people to find a result in a category page but [...]

Doh! Displayed Wrong Theme For Who Knows How Long

Thu Tu Koelling — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:21:21 +0000

I’m a dork. Anyone who knows me already knew that.

Anyway, some time back–I don’t know when–I broke the theme I mainly use, Ocadia. Thus, I (or my blog) switched to the Default theme. Apparently, when I switched back to Ocadia after fixing it, I used the theme switcher drop down box, instead of [...]

Added Image Scroller Based on iTunes

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:10:33 +0000

rphMedia over at the Coppermine forums has offered a mod called Image Scroller – based on iTunes. It looks so cool that I couldn’t help but implementing it at my Take Thu gallery and my blog (at the bottom of the blog’s homepage).

For those who want an includable version of flow.htm, create a file [...]

Using Search Everywhere Plugin to Search Jerome Keyword Tags

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:25:37 +0000

I installed the Search Everywhere Plugin in the hopes of enabling WordPress search to find posts that have been tagged with Jerome Keywords Plugin. Alas, it didn’t have that capability built-in, nor could I find an available solution, so I tweaked the Search Everywhere code to search tags for results. I based the code modifications [...]

Fighting Comment Spam with Bad Behavior, Akismet, Spam Karma

Thu Tu Koelling — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:10:32 +0000

I’ve been using Akismet since I started using WordPress in early 2006. It does a tremendous job of detecting spam. However, it’s not perfect and a few messages gets past its filter each week. Since I enforced moderation on new posters, this kept the spam from showing up on the blog. However, that measure prevented [...]

Google AJAX Search Results in WordPress

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:23:35 +0000

Not even a day had passed since I figured out How to Integrate Google Custom Search Engine Results into WordPress Blog Template and I figured another way to integrate search results into WordPress.

As described at the site, “Google AJAX Search API lets you put Google Search in your web pages with JavaScript.”

One of [...]