How does one keep track of how much processor time and overhead any given WordPress plugin requires? PHP code and tips to help you catch greedy WordPress plugins before you get your shared hosting account disabled.
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WordPress plugin review: FAQ-Tastic
FAQ-Tastic – a FAQ – Ask Me solution for WordPress. Reviewed in depth.
Photoshop CS3 Droplet: Save as GIF
For some reason it is impossible to convert ImageReady or previous Photoshop versions Droplets to Photoshop CS3. Here is a simple PS3 Save to GIF droplet for your use.
Why WordPress? – the Tumblr Question
David Karp writes about the advantages of Tumblr: “posting with zero obligations, little or no comment”. Great for wisecracking, difficult for communicating.
Current WordPress 2.4 Admin Theme a Disappointment
From the beginning WordPress has generally looked great when going out with visitors but she dresses awfully sloppily around the house. Current previews of the updated WordPress 2.4 Admin interface show a getup which looks worse if anything, than what’s there now.
Why Foliopress WYSIWYG will be PHP5 Only
Six good reasons why Foliopress WYSIWYG will be PHP5 only. Sometimes releasing new software is great. One isn’t hindered by legacy issues.
Trouble with DD Add Signature Plugin
My best advice: if you can keep computers out of your life, do. Nothing more reliable and crash resistant than pen and paper. Tolstoy, Stendhal and Lermontov.
Site Renovation Day
Spent most of the day working on Foliopress WYSIWYG together with Peter Baran. Our solution for the WordPress WYSIWYG and image handling nightmare is coming along quite brilliantly well. This is what the basic toolbar looks like.
Price of Antitrust: $4 billion and climbing
Microsoft, embraced, extended and extinguished through the eighties and nineties. In the end it turns, out Microsoft has paid more than $4.2 billion in antitrust and patent infringements, not counting the impending EU (European Union) settlement.
Forums and WordPress
A quest for a forum without hundreds of buttons and lines going every direction. The negative effect of design on traffic.
One Click Editing for WordPress
The latest addition to the How to Hack a WordPress Theme covers how to get those cool edit buttons on to both pages and posts by changing just a single php file in your template.
Xray Eyes for CSS
XRay, this amazing – and free – bookmarklet tells you all the CSS and structure for any element on a page.
How to Comment Code in WordPress Templates
I recommend reading the full article on How to Comment Code in WordPress templates if commenting WordPress templates is something you need it do occasionally. It will save you a lot of time.
Coding Languages, a developer’s new girlfriend
In general I believe that a lot of the coding developers (as opposed to user interface developers such as myself) like trying new languages like some men like trying fresh girlfriends. Each time a new language comes along they think this might be the one. But for the most part it’s a waste of time. Stick with the one you have if she’s kind to you.
PHP Speed and Security: The Code Optimization Phase
Apparently not all PHP is created equal and it is time to batten down the hatches. Once we get to functionality we will have to put a full-fledged optimisation phase in the development cycle: the Code Optimization Phase.
Great Handy Tool for Escaping HTML
How to escape HTML for weblog entries from any computer with a single click of the mouse.
Lost WordPress Admin Password and Email? How to get back into your weblog…
What should you do if you’ve forgotten or lost your WordPress Admin password? Don’t despair. A step by step recovery program. You will get back into your weblog.
Getting JustBlogIt to work with WordPress 2.1: Bookmarklet.php Fix
How to get the Firefox bookmarklet JustBlogIt to work with WordPress 2.1 and later. Revised bookmarklet.php file for free download and replacement in wp-admin.
Which Help Desk to Use to Build a Knowledge Base?
Which Help Desk to Use to Generate an Online Set of FAQ? This is another question I’ve answered lately privately. Kayako, Three Pillars Help Desk, Basecamp, Freshbooks – all candidates. My advice – pick any one system get to know it well and use it to the maximum.
WordPress Photo Galleries: State of the WordPress Images War
We’ve spent whole days at Foliovision playing around with what’s out there in terms of WordPress image plugins and there’s nothing I would recommend. Here are the best of the worst.
