Siolon

A bane of WordPress development for a long time were the awful titles generated for blog posts. When I speak of this I’m talking about the order of the blog title and the post title are put together. An example of this can be found below. And this example is better than other’s I’ve seen. On some sites where the blog/post title is long then the post title is truncated! This is unacceptable when search engines give so much weight to the content of your post titles. For a long time I circumvented this behavior by using the (read more...)

The WordPress developers have been engaged in debate for a while now on how we should name the section currently entitled “Blogroll.” I believe strongly that “Links” is the preferred title especially to users using WP as a CMS. Regardless of what I think, there has been a vote set up to give us a better grip on what the user wants. Vote Now! (read more...)

I was browsing the WordPress Trac tonight, and I saw a ticket to convert from Prototype to jQuery as the new JavaScript framework in the admin area for version 2.2. As discussed with Matt, he would like to see the Admin area, in 2.2, using jQuery as the Javascript library running the frontend. It is ticket #3824 if you’re following the changes. Download the bleeding-edge version from Subversion to see the changes as they roll it out. (read more...)

This is my first contribution to the WP community! It is a start, and I hope time permitting to advance the features in this plugin. This plugin aims to consolidate your post information into a collapsible panel (using jQuery) that can save space on your page. Usage Download, upload, activate. Add the following code somewhere in The Loop. <?php postinfo(); ?> Changelog 1.3 Altered link for comments on single post entries 1.2 Added graceful degradation for users without JS 1.1 Converted to jQuery from script.aculo.us (uses jQuery bundled with WordPress) Added support for tags Added extensive styling including the famous Fam Fam Silk Icons Reorganized code 1.0 Initial release To Do Add an option page to (read more...)

It amazes me how many bloggers spent an inordinate amount of time trying to improve their hits, comments, etc. that they forget the most important element in having a good blog. If the content is found lacking then often it doesn’t matter how pretty your site is, or how often your site gets hit. The content of your blog is what separates the good from the bad, and the visited to the not visited. What will follow are tips that will help to ensure that your sphere of influence in the blogging realm will continue to grow. Remember (read more...)