Posts Tagged ‘WordPress plugin’
Renaming table prefix on WordPress 2.9
I wanted to rename the table prefix for this blog before upgrading to WordPress 3.0. I knew about the WordPress Table Prefix Rename Plugin which claimed to work for WordPress 2.x, but I couldn’t find anyone saying they had tried it specifically on WordPress 2.9. The only thing to do was to try it myself. As stated in the documentation [...]
Upgrade WordPress to 2.8.1 on 1and1
In the bad old days upgrading anything WordPress related (plugins, themes, or WordPress itself) would at best involve manually downloading a zip, extracting it locally and then using FTP to upload the changes to your web server. At worst it could require manually editing files, and making database changes. In February last year I wrote about [...]
Speeding up a WordPress blog with caching
I decided to investigate some methods of speeding up page load times on my this blog. An obvious way to do this seemed to be to add some caching to the site to reduce the load on the MySQL server. Searching for WordPress caching information gives a lot of references to adding a define('WP_CACHE', true); line to your wp-config.php file. [...]
AdSense Injection WordPress plugin tweaks
On this blog I use the AdSense Injection plugin (update: this plugin no longer seems to be available) to automatically add Google's targeted AdSense adverts to my posts. The plugin is excellent and has helped to make more money for this site but there are a few tweaks that I have done. First, I've made a modification so that if a individual [...]
Adding ‘Related Posts’ to WordPress articles and 404 error pages
Many blogs have a list of related articles after each of their posts. I wanted something similar for my WordPress blog but found it wasn't as easy to do as I thought it would be. At the same time I was interested in capturing any access attempts to non-existent pages (causing a 404 error), and showing a list of suggested links. This is [...]
Roll on one click updating of WordPress plugins
Today I saw the future of WordPress plugin upgrades. Anyone who has a WordPress blog with a number of plugins installed will know how much of a chore it can be to keep those plugins up to date. The official way of upgrading any plugin involves: Spotting the plugin has a new version available from the WordPress plugin page. Downloading [...]
AddThis widget
I've been looking for a simple way to add those 'Add to...' buttons at the bottom of each of my blog entries. I've looked at a number of different methods of adding the buttons but the best one I've seen is the one from http://www.addthis.com/. It can be easily integrated into the major blogging tools. If you use blogger you can easily update [...]
