Thu Tu’s Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 the drawbacks [...]