I’ve been using it! Okay, so I’m not going to talk about all the great stuff coming up in 2.9, all the bugs they’ve fixed, all the features they’ve added, no. I’d just like to tell you about my experience running a step ahead of everybody else. When WordPress has made the switch from 2.7 to 2.8 I’ve decided to risk it and take the 2.9 path. I’m not sure...
WordPress: The template_redirect Hook Returns 404
This is a real quick one. I’ve started using the W3 Total Cache plugin a few days ago which I’m totally satisfied with. Unlike the WP Super Cache plugin, W3TC can keep the caches in memory via memcached, serve the static content through CDNs. The guys at W3 Edge promised to add Amazon CloudFront compatibility which I’m very excited about. As we all know (I guess) Mashable is...
WordPress: Recent Comments by Category
Yet another WordPress code snippet ;) I’ve got two major categories in my upcoming project – Blogs and Arts. In the archive, somewhere in the sidebar, I’d like to output the recent comments only from the chosen category, excluding the ones that are from the other category. The most difficult part here is to figure out proportions, because running this hack recursively may eat up...
Using the jQuery Lightbox Plugin in WordPress
Thickbox thickbox thickbox. Why on earth did Thickbox make it into the WordPress core and Lightbox didn’t? I’m pretty sure that most of you will agree with me – Lightbox is fancier than Thickbox, that cool effect on popup. And the way you can browse through the images in a gallery just by clicking the left and right parts of the image. Thickbox doesn’t have that! It took...
WordPress: Tag Cloud Based on Author Posts
I’m currently working on a little russian social network powered by WordPress and I kinda got stuck this weekend on the user profile page. WordPress has got a pretty good mechanism for working with users, and the users meta piece is so awesome and useful. I’ve a little problem though, trying to output a tag cloud based on posts that a specific user has written. In general this might...
Twitter Friendly Links: Now In Alphanumeric Mode
Hello my friends! Yes, I’m finally back from my two-week vacation. It was awesome, I spent a week in Magnitogorsk and another one in Sochi. The weather was great, it only rained on Sunday, when I was on my way back. Everything went fine, I’ve seen all my friends, we had a great time. Sochi is okay, getting ready for year 2014, though their airport in Adler still sucks big time...
New WordPress Plugin: The Foller.me Widget
Here’s a way for you to show what you’ve been tweeting about lately. Right on your blog, in the sidebar. No Twitter passwords required, cause this thing works via the Foller.me API. This is the first ever app (widget, gadget, or whatever you wanna call that) based on our Foller.me API, so I hope we have a great start here, and you young developers out there, dig through this...
And Yet Another WordPress Theme for Inspiration ;)
My brand new creation: The Foller.me Theme for WordPress and I ain’t releasing it public ;)
Multiblog WordPress: Eeek! No Database Connection
I tried browsing to www.kovshenin.com this morning and was pretty sure I’ll get the usual redirect, but no. I got an “Error establishing a database connection”. Right, it seems that www.kovshenin.com is not defined in the wp-config.php file we created earlier this week (Multiple Sites Driven By One WordPress Installation Part II) so here’s a workaround (and we’re...
Multiple Sites Driven By One WordPress Installation Part II: Please Be Careful, You Really Might Mess Up ;)
This is just a little update on what I’ve been doing and what I have acheived so far. So, what we have: two different hosts – example.org and example-two.org both on one webserver right next to eachother, let’s say in the /home/username/www (we’ll just call it www further on) directory. The apache vhosts are configured correctly, the document roots are set...