Using a Specific Favicon Per WordPress Theme

October 17, 2008

I really like using the favicon. Favicons are great for branding purposes as they show up as a graphic in the URL bar and also when a page is bookmarked. While themes do not change much in WordPress I thought it would be nice to have a favicon that is specific for that theme. If [...]

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What is CommentLuv?

October 14, 2008

CommentLuv is a great WordPress plugin that will attempt to parse someones blog feed when they comment on your blog. It will parse their feed and display the latest post (or let the commenter choose if they are registered at CommentLuv.com). These links are usually “do-followed” meaning that the standard “nofollow” tag it not there. [...]

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How to Change the Default URL Structure in WordPress

October 9, 2008

This one puzzled me for a while when I first installed wordpress. I had seen blogs with a fancy URL like: /my-great-category/my-awesome-post But my URLs looked like /?p=3 I had to figure out how to change that. URLs are great to put your terms of what your post is about. What I found out it [...]

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The Bloggers Tip Jar – Ads

October 3, 2008

I have heard that some readers will click on an ad as a way of leaving a “tip” for the blogger. I do not do this as I am browsing. If I run across a post I really like I will either Leave a comment Subscribe by e-mail or google reader to the blog I [...]

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Top Entrecard Droppers

September 28, 2008

I have decided to start showing some weekly link love to the top droppers on my Entrecard. The top droppers are: Nice2All Mr Sun Studios 1stopmom Pandora’s Casket I’m Beautiful Like Me NateBal.com 10 things I hate about your site Secluded Habitat Developer Tips Angel’s Answers Want your web site link to appear in my [...]

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Entrecard is For Sale

September 27, 2008

For those of you who don’t know what Entrecard is please read this post about what is Entrecard. I was doing my random Saturday surfing and came across some posts that mentioned this sale on sitepoint. I use Entrecard on a daily basis, thanks to the toolbar, and I am hoping the company that buys [...]

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How to Change Number of Posts in WordPress

September 24, 2008

It took me some digging to find this so I figured I would post this in hopes of helping out someone else who is looking to change the number of posts displayed on the home page for a wordpress blog. To change the number of posts displayed go into your admin area and select Settings [...]

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Securing PHP Forms Using Captcha

September 18, 2008

“Captcha” is when a site uses an image like the above image and requires that the user verifies it. The main use for it is bot protection. Malicious bots that will try to spam or get around normal security built in around mail functions. I needed a PHP captcha script and I found this PHP [...]

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Add Your Products to Google Base

September 15, 2008

E-commerce merchants can add their products for free to Google Base. Google Base is the top “shopping” link in the google search engine. I do not know if many people use this service as it is not highly publicized. Sometimes these search results also appear at the top under “product searches” when a term is [...]

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