So, it took nine days, but it finally happened: someone has left a comment on the DragonFlyEye.Net blog looking for my JavaScript Animated Collapsing Categories Widget to be usable for Links as well. For those of you who are not aware, the new version of WordPress changes the way Links work slightly, by making Links Categories part of the Categories table of the database.
That means that my plugin could potentially be used for Links, but as it sits, that’s not the way it works. In fact, it works with 2.1, but it’s a bit wonky. So, I’ve avoided upgrading because [...]
Whilst playing around with the latest development on the DragonFlyEye.Net site, I’ve rediscovered a plugin I installed a while back, FireBug. FireBug is a plugin for Firefox that. . . well, . . . it does so many things, its tough to put it in one sentence. Actually, they did a good job of it here:
Firebug – Web Development Evolved
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Even this is something of an understatement. I [...]
I’ve found this very annoying, myself: Google has indexed my RSS feeds, thus pulling some searchers into unexpected directions. I’m sure I don’t need to tell most people who concern themselves with SEO: when people end up somewhere they don’t want to be, they don’t look deeper and they don’t come back. They just leave. Joost de Valk of SEO Egghead proposes the following intriguing solution:
SEO Egghead by Jaimie Sirovich » Noindex, follow for RSS Feeds?
I won’t go in to why search engines seems to be indexing feeds — fact is: they do. The feed for my personal [...]
Since I’ve become such a fan of developing Widgets and stuff for WordPress, I’ve decided I’d better get ahead of the curve and download the most recent release candidate for WordPress 2.1. The final product is due out by the end of the month, and that’s not very far away at all.
So, I signed up for the Testers mailing list and downloaded the most recent candidate to a Dev server to try out. The nice thing is: I’ll be able to read along as the new version (and future versions) progresses, maybe throw my two cents in, where [...]
While we all anxiously await the release of WordPress 2.1, the ever-vigilant WordPress team is still keeping its eye out for serious security concerns so you don’t have to! Witness the 2.0.7 release which takes care of a PHP vulnerabilty, while also addressing a FeedBurner problem along the way:
Development Blog › WordPress 2.0.7
We know it sucks to have a release only 10 days after our last one, but we think it’s important enough for your blog to be secure to do it, and hopefully only having to change a few files will make the upgrade easier than normal.
Get it patched, [...]
Many of us have a natural aversion to using things like link TITLE tags or ALT tags for images as ways of enhancing the SEO benchmark of our websites. This is owing in large part to the fact that those attributes have so often been manipulated by the “Black Hats” among us that we presume those things will either be ignored or penalized.
But even though there is a long history of abuse, that does not mean that simply employing these attributes automatically means Google penalties. The fact is that Google has focused more and more on not only [...]
Lorelle has a great wrap-up of some of the most recent teasers concerning the newest version of the non-wordpress.com WordPress software. Bottom line: plugin creators, check those queries!
Glimpses of WordPress 2.1 « Lorelle on WordPress
So there is a lot of great things to look forward to with the new version. And another reminder – if you are a WordPress Plugin or Theme author, make sure yours is up-to-date and will handle the transition. It’s expected to be a huge update for a lot of users.
The newest version of WP seems to be designed to eliminate a large number [...]
So, I’ve been using FeedBurner for my non-blog feeds for quite a while, now. However, I’ve been hesitant to switch over to FeedBurner for my blog feed because I didn’t want to strand people who had been using the old feed link. (I believe I was just discussing the problem of stranding links, wasn’t I?) Well, lo and behold, there comes the following plugin for WordPress:
FeedBurner Plugin // Ordered List by Steve Smith
So What Does This Do? Using some WordPress plugin magic, and user agent detection, this plugin simply forwards all your feed traffic to FeedBurner. [...]
It is always worth considering what changing your web layout will do to your hit rate. If you’ve been out there a while, you’re going to need to consider that there’s some guy out there with a page of yours either bookmarked or even linked on his page. When you delete that content and don’t follow up with a redirect, you suffer dead links and dead leads no one will bother to follow. Jaimie Sirovich picks up with the 301 “Permanently Moved” linking discussion:
SEO Egghead by Jaimie Sirovich » Cashing In With Legacy Link Equity
Your computer sucks. [...]
UPDATE: About that whole “Customizable Dashboard,” thing, someone already beat me to it, but I seconded the motion as well. Good! I hope this idea gains some traction and we get what we want. In the meanwhile, I’m about to go check out “Dasher,” a plugin I found that’s supposed to do the same thing.
The WP Development Blog has announced a couple of new features for the WordPress world, WordPress Ideas and WordPress Kvetch, both aimed at more directly responding to the needs of WordPressers of the world. One is to suggest things, and the other is to complain [...]
