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 ;)
Month: October 2007
"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)
WordPress Upgrade Script
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 Updating Wordpress in $CURDIR echo…
Looking for Translators
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. I'm doing the English and…
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.
Anti Spam Tip of the Day : Complain !
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… till I received a reply…
Who Sees Ads Trivial Update #1337
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) a way to make Who…
This Bohemian Rhapsody parody is one of the damn coolest stuff I've seen this year. Awesome.
Rebuilding suexec with Different Options on Ubuntu
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.
WordPress Functions Implementation History Tool
Moved here: WordPress Functions Implementation History Tool Please update your bookmarks and comment there. Thanks! :)