Archive for October, 2007

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Posted On: 2007 / 10 / 30

Showing a WordPress post's "last modified" date: nothing rocket science, just something that's a nice idea to implement in your theme. Hey, I just did ;)[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2007 / 10 / 29

"How much does Google hate Text Links Ads ?" This question seems to have a simple answer: google it. TLA doesn't even appear in the first 100 results (while it is obviously #1 result in other major search engines)[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2007 / 10 / 27

If you have shell access to your webserver, upgrading to the latest WordPress build can be a matter of painless seconds. As usual there is more than one way to do it, and here is one of these ways — the script I am using. < View plain text > code #!/bin/bash CURDIR=$(pwd) SITE="http://yoursite.com/blog" echo […][...] → Read more

My next plugin is ready for shipping, but I like it so much already that I want to give it some special treatment: a polyglot release. I'm looking for a few kind translators willing to spend 3 minutes to take care of about 20 words or short sentences, and translate these in their mother tongue. […][...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2007 / 10 / 24

Trynt: those folks provide free-to-use REST APIs for a big bunch of stuff. Google or del.icio.us or Flickr related, Whois data, tag suggesting, Captchas, credit card validation, you name it. This looks like a really excellent stuff. Bookmarked.[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2007 / 10 / 24

For the past few days, I've received a decent amount of spam from the same machine and domain, hosted on Hostgator. Deciding that enough was enough and that I had a minute of my life to waste, I sent an email to abuse@hostgator with some details from my Akismet screen. I wasn't really expecting much… […][...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2007 / 10 / 23

Yet another slight update to Who Sees Ads. This release, stamped 1.3.3, fixes a small glitch that would make the "Help Intro and Wizard" always show, and also fixes a bug in the way custom search engines can be defined in your my_options.php. On the prospective side of things, I'm currently searching (if there is) […][...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2007 / 10 / 23

This Bohemian Rhapsody parody is one of the damn coolest stuff I've seen this year. Awesome.[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2007 / 10 / 21

The following is for my own reference, borrowed from there and duplicated here because the original blog looks inactive and a fine candidate for deletion next time their domain or hosting will expire. No questions on this please, this is not my area of expertise at all.[...] → Read more

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Posted On: 2007 / 10 / 19

Moved here: WordPress Functions Implementation History Tool Please update your bookmarks and comment there. Thanks! :)[...] → Read more