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WordPress Wednesday 15/11/2007

November 14th

WordPress powers 0.8% of the Web.

WP Custom Title Colour Plugin.

A collection of useful WordPress code snippets.

RB Internal Links WordPress Plugin.

WP-SpamFree: A Powerful Anti-Spam Plugin for WordPress!

Local Analytics is a WordPress plugin for integrating Google Analytics, the free web analysis service by Google, into your Word Press powered blog.

AJAX’d WordPress (AWP), formerly know as INAP, is an extremely powerful plugin that harnesses the power of AJAX and WordPress to improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any WordPress based [...]

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WordPress: Modifying the Excerpt

November 12th

I was having some problems with the display of post excerpts on category archive pages. WordPress (2.3.1) was stripping out HTML tags, including links and scripts. This led to at least two problems.

First, short posts, where my only intention is to post a link with a little note, are completely visible in the excerpt view, yet they didn’t include the link. The end result is that these posts look like mistakes. Second, my Library and Wishlist categories looked equally silly and broken without the scripts that pull in information [...]

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WordPress: Removing Extra HTML from a Category Description

November 9th

I ran into a little problem today: some piece of code, somewhere in the bowls of WordPress, or perhaps in my theme, was adding extra <p> tags to my category descriptions. This meant that when I retrieved a category description using the category_description() function, the result was wrapped in paragraph tags.

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Painless Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1

November 7th

A while ago, I upgraded to WordPress 2.3. I host my blog with Dreamhost, and they have easy, “one-click” installs for this sort of thing, but the one-click upgrade wouldn’t work for me. Turns out there was a problem with the path the one-click robot was using to apply the upgrade: I had entered an extra trailing slash at some point along the road, and this broke the poor little one-click robot’s brain. It just couldn’t find the code it was supposed to update.

This isn’t something I can re-configure from [...]

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