Matt Martz has put up a very cool tutorial on segregating comments from trackbacks with WordPress 2.7 (something that has always been on my todo list, actually). Another handy read for theme authors. Share This Related posts WordPress, Duplicate Content, and Wrong SEO Plugins (19) Wordpress Tip for Blog Maintenance (3) Wordpress Themes with an Admin Menu (9) Wordpress Themes using [...] → Read more

WordPress 2.7 (release date: November 2008) will bring a load of new features, and most of the cool new bits will concern comment managements. On the public side of your blog, you will be able to show them threaded and paged without any extra plugin. Well, at least if your theme is able to do [...] → Read more

Two hours ago WordPress 2.6.2 was committed. It’s yet to be announced on the Development Blog but anyway, this is a very urgent mandatory upgrade. Let’s all salute the responsiveness of the core team: version 2.6.2 was released about 5 hours after a critical bug affecting 2.6.1 was filed. Upgrade! Share This Related posts Your Wordpress Feed, on Steroid [...] → Read more

I ran into an interesting problem, facing what is certainly an HTML limitation that had somehow never really occurred to me. The thing is: when you submit a form with empty fields, empty values are POSTed, except for checkboxes and radio buttons which are not posted at all, just as if they were no such [...] → Read more

A post that's not about WordPress but, hey, it's about Jazz, so I'm not that far :) One of my sisters works for the (French) National Jazz Orchestra and so I was invited to one of their concerts, featuring their album named Close to Heaven: A Led Zeppelin Tribute. Oh my. I know nothing about [...] → Read more

If anyone is interested, I have invites for Jaiku, Google's Twitter service. Leave a comment with your email. Share This Related posts WordPress SVN Now Twittered (0) Twitter Quick Update URL (1) Send Your SVN Commits to Twitter (0) Predictions for 2008 (2) Yahoo! 360 Review. Sort of. (3) [...] → Read more

The WordPress Theme Toolkit is a tool that allows theme authors add an admin menu as easily as editing 3 lines, and it powers dozens of WordPress theme back ends. Although everything still works fine and will probably work with all future versions of WordPress, I did not update its code in a while and, guess [...] → Read more

jQuery docs in .CHM format (compiled HTML). Comes in handy especially given how often I cannot reach docs.jquery.com. Why didn't I search for such a tool way earlier?... Share This Related posts Pretty Comments: Increase your Textarea as you Type (1) The Next Big Thing : Ajax (0) The Lightbox Clones Matrix: Compare 30+ Lightbox Scripts (53) Switzerland Map (1) Putting some [...] → Read more

To those using comment moderation on their blog, here is a simple trick that should become part of every theme. I just left a comment on Logo Design Love, an empyreal blog about logo design by David Airey. My comment went into moderation as per his comment policy, but instead of the standard message you've been [...] → Read more

As you may have read it already on Lorelle's blushful announcement, I made a Comment Counter widget for Liz Strauss. Liz Strauss is considered to be an expert in the art of engaging conversations and, for blog, comments (I dig her blog tagline "You're only a stranger once"). One day Lorelle and Liz were chatting about [...] → Read more