Posts Tagged “WordPress”

WordPress Discussion Options – limiting spam annoyances and problems

WordPress 1.3 has much better anti-spam features than previous releases. It’s still relatively simple however but despite the existence of third-party hacks and plugins to catch spam here’s how I configured my site: Disable email notifaction when comments are held for moderation Before a comment appears, the comment author must have a previously approved comment [...]

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Site Updates

Working away at a new site design. I also made a few changes to the WordPress MU index.php and added a counter. With that you can do nifty things like adding a photo of the day after the first post, or whatever. In my post.html I put the following: {if $count == ’0′}     {photoblog msg=” [...]

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Templates and the "is" Functions

Ryan’s explanation of the is_* functions in WordPress 1.3 is an excellent summary of some of the new functions in this version of WP. In WPMU, it should be possible(I haven’t tried yet!) to do the following from your Smarty template: {if is_search()}     <b>The Results of Your Search:</b> {/if} It’ll display the message “The Results [...]

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WordPress User discovers Enclosures

Matt reports that another user has discovered that WordPress supports enclosures! That’s great, but others have legimate concerns about it.

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Inline WordPress Comments

I’m experimenting with inline WordPress comments. If you leave a comment on this or other posts the comment will display on the blog, under the post. I need to make it optional however and smarten up it a bit! You’ll probably notice a few changes here over the next few hours as I play with [...]

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WPMU Nightly Downloads

I finally got around to creating a release script so I can quickly bang out WPMU tarballs and zip files. Releases won’t come every day but when I make major changes to the system I’ll upload a new version and announce it here. Here’s the download page. Note: I haven’t as yet tested this version. [...]

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WordPress Enclosures – embedded links

This is a small demo and announcement of changes to enclosures support in WordPress. To help clear up the backend clutter I removed the “Enclosure” text field and enclosures are now created from files linked to in the post content. Files of type “video”, “image” and “audio” are enclosed by default. Images: photoblog-20041018 photoblog-20041017 photoblog-20041016 [...]

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Previous Page, Next Page

The Previous Page, Next Page function works again in WPMU. Not sure what fixed it but it was likely some WordPress core change, probably the upgrade to the CVS version did it. Anyway, to get it working, administrators should edit their wp-inst/.htaccess and add the following line (somewhere in the middle,I don’t think it really [...]

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Counting Hits and Referers – now there's two ways

b2++ and WPMU have long been able to record hits and referers. Now you can do it in two different ways! The original way to record hits in WPMU was by adding this code to your index.html template: {insert name=’getreferer’} but if you’re not sure that the web page is refreshed every time your blog [...]

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WordPress Multiuser 0.1.3

Here’s a new release of WPMU, and this is what’s new! Added enclosures support. Added blog post instant preview. Misc bug fixes and WP upgrades. Go get it from the download page! When upgrading just copy over your previous installation. It should work without running any upgrade script.

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Holy Shmoly! is Stephen Fry proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache