Category Archives: WordPress

8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks

Smashing Magazine has done it again. Their latest post, 8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks, is a goldmine of useful tricks to streamline your WordPress experience.

The tips include

  • Backing up (and restoring) your database
  • Batch deleting post revisions
  • Resetting a lost admin password
  • Updating your database with a new domain, if you ever move to a new one

Definitely some knowledge to have your blogger’s toolbox.

If you really want to master SQL, I’d recommend reading Learning MySQL or similar book.

Add An Item to WordPress 2.7’s Favorites Menu

WordPress 2.7 introduced a little menu in the upper right corner of the backend. By default it includes commonly-used links, such as the New Post and Comments Management pages. It’s a neat idea, but the developers didn’t give the average user an easy way…

Don’t Like WordPress 2.7’s Vertical Navigation?

If you’re not comfortable with the new vertical navigation in WordPress 2.7, rest assured that there is an alternative. Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menu plugin, has been updated to bring horizontal dropdown navigation to WordPress 2.7. When WordPress 2.7 and its new and optimized…

Poll: Are You Running WordPress 2.7 Yet?

WordPress 2.7 was released on the evening of December 10th, as you probably know. Interestingly, it was the first time that Twitter alerted me to the finalization of a WordPress release, rather than other means, such as the Dashboard. WP 2.7 seems to be…

An Interesting Use for WP125

Dave Rigotti has found an interesting new use for my WP125 plugin. It came to my attention recently while I was checking my Technorati link feed. He is using the plugin, which is usually for displaying 125×125 advertisements in your blog sidebar, to count…

WordPress Theme of the Month: Annexation

This month’s featured WordPress theme is Annexation, released by Six Revisions and created by Chris Wallace.

How To: Integrate Non-WordPress Pages in WordPress

Have you ever put together a cool script or page on your own, and then wanted to integrate it into WordPress so it would have the same look and feel as the rest of your site? Maybe you have a custom survey you put…

Full Posts or Excerpts? How About Both?

Should you display full posts on your WordPress blog’s index, or excerpts? Normally I fall into the camp that says you shouldn’t display ten full posts on your main page, since you end up with more duplicate content, and it takes longer to scroll…

Prelovac’s WordPress Optimization Guide

Vladimir Prelovac has an excellent article on optimizing WordPress for speed available now. It covers plenty of bases, such as Caching using WP Super Cache MySQL Caching Checking plugins for slowdowns Optimizing tables If you ever experienced slow WordPress admin panel, “MySQL server has…

10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7

Technosailer has a new post up titled 10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7. It covers some of the biggest changes coming in the new version of WordPress that’s just around the corner, and gives some good commentary on then. It tells…