Nov
18
I know it sounds funny, but I have launched a new web site called “WPCult“. As of right now I am the only author and moderator of the site. Maybe as time goes by and the site takes off I would gladly receive some help from others.
It is just another WordPress tutorial site with Theme and Plugin reviews. I will also showcase some WP sites out there that I enjoy, and further down the line allow site submissions.
I guess the site would be in Beta testing right now, so yes, the site is live, just not complete.
Check it out for your self. http://wpcult.com
Tagged in: Plugins, WordPress, WordPress Site, WPCult
Oct
21
I received an email this morning from the guys at WPWebHost. It stated the following:
I’m wondering if you would like to participate in a competition we organized - “WordPress Coolest Blog Competition”?
We are giving away prizes worth around $2000 in search for the “coolest WordPress blog”. To join, it’s pretty easy:
1. - Write a blog post about participating this competition in your blog.
2. - Get at least 5 comments. (excluding you and the spammers)
3. - Submit your URL in the comment form here. (trackback could work too)
4. - Done! (are you expecting more?)
For more information about the competition and the prizes, you may visit here: http://wpwebhost.com/blog/wordpress-coolest-blog-competition/.
Cheers!
So, I thought I would join in… Will see what happens 
Tagged in: Competition, Cool Blog, WordPress
Oct
01
My site is on we love WP..
Tagged in: WordPress
Sep
23
I went to the Blog World Expo which was held in Las Vegas from the 19th-21st. I only made it to the last day. My morning started out at 4am at home, driving to pick my girlfriend up from work and then spending the morning on highway 15 to Vegas! We got to Vegas at around 9:30am just enough time to grab a quick bite before the expo.
Once inside we spent most of the morning browsing inside the exhibits hall. We came across many company’s I have heard of and a lot that I had not. One thing for sure, the hall was filled with Widget Application, like crazy!
Out of the whole exhibit there were only a handful of company’s that stood out to me. And I will tell you about a few of them now.
In no particular order…
- OutBrain.. Integrate ratings and personalized recommendations, quickly and free.
- TechSmith Capture, edit, and share exactly what you see on your screen.
Zannel A free mobile video and photo blogging community See post!- Woopra Website Tracking and Analytics.
- Pic App the best content for the best publishers.
Anyway, those are a few of the company’s which I spent a good deal of time talking with. And I liked there ideas and there service.
Oh and I must say that Woopra, is quite the amazing Analytics application! And… thanks Lorelle for giving me a awesome complex speech about the application.
I will see you again next year!
Tagged in: Blog World Expo, Las Vegas, SnagIt, Woopra, WordPress
I am curently listening too:
Metallica on iTunes
Sep
11
Well, I spend the later part of today and upgraded like 9 WordPress sites to the latest 2.6.2.
Tagged in: 2.6.2, upgrade, WordPress
Sep
08
And I just updated my site to version 2.6.1 like two days ago…
But check out the info about 2.6.2 here, or below
Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand(). With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2. If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password. The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit. However, this attack coupled with a weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() could be used to predict the randomly generated password. Stefan Esser will release details of the complete attack shortly. The attack is difficult to accomplish, but its mere possibility means we recommend upgrading to 2.6.2.
Other PHP apps are susceptible to this class of attack. To protect all of your apps, grab the latest version of Suhosin. If you’ve already updated Suhosin, your existing WordPress install is already protected from the full exploit. You should still upgrade to 2.6.2 if you allow open user registration so as to prevent the possibility of passwords being randomized.
2.6.2 also contains a handful of bug fixes. Check out the full change set and list of changed files.
Tagged in: 2.6.1, 2.6.2, upgrade, WordPress
Aug
25
Well, I am working on a new website. I decided to create the site using none other than.. You guessed it, WordPress! I downloaded the newest, version 2.6.1.
I am still in the process of finishing content on the site, but if you want to check it out? Head on over to Great Escape Cabo Fishing!
- http://greatescapecabofishing.com
I am finishing editing a quick video to put up on the site, and there should be more to come as well.
The site is for my pops, where you can charter any one of the two sport fishing yachts down in Cabo San Lucas Mexico.
Tagged in: 2.6.1, Cabo, Fishing, webdesign, WordPress
I am curently listening too:
Disturbed on iTunes
Aug
23
So since I have been bake there have been a lot of changes. Well I think I can go on for ever about what has and hasn’t changed. But I think I will just create a quick like for myself and make it easy.
- The new WordPress 2.6.1 release, like I said.
- The Olympics are almost over.
- Hmm, I thought there was more… Maybe I am tired and forgot stuff… yeah, I’ll get back to this later.
P.S. My brain still feels like its on vacation.. I need a reality check.
Tagged in: 2.6.1, News, WordPress
Aug
10
Use h2 tags for your post titles - Search engines like Google love heading tags. The lower the number in the Header the better. Use h2 tags for all post titles and h3 for sections within your posts/pages.
Make your post titles into links - On archive pages, and on permalink pages, make your post titles link to the permalink page (even though it just link to itself). Have you heard of Google Bombing before? Didn’t think so..
Optimize your Page Titles - Your title tag should contain more than just your blog’s name. It’s a great place to put some keywords in. Try this format: “%the Post Title% - %Your Blog Name.COM%.” Your average post title probably has good keywords relevant to your post, right? For your index/home page, you want something like the name of your blog, and either your tagline (you know, that witty line you came up with!) or just a list of keywords that are relevant to your site.
Change Your Permalink Structure - If you use Wordpress, do not use the default permalink style or ?p=page-number. If fact, the best way is to input a custom structure field such as: /%category%/%postname%/.
Optimize Post Slugs - Many blogging platforms, such as Wordpress, offer a “Post Slug” feature that allows you to tweak the URL of the post your working on. When using you can change name of post to something SEO friendly.
Use Meta Tags - While meta tags don’t have as much value placed on them as they used to, there still is some, and it’s a good idea to use them.
ALT and Link Your Logo - Make sure your logo links to your blog’s homepage. This is more of a usability thing than SEO advice, but it’s still a good idea. On a SEO note, make sure you use an “alt” tag on the image, adding something such as the blog’s name to it.
Tagged in: SEO, WordPress
I am curently listening too:
Sixx A.M. on iTunes
Aug
09
Everyone has plugins installed on there WordPress blog. And some people have so many that there are compatibility issues between them. Well I am sure that most of you won’t experience this, I just came across a known issue between two plugins.
As you see in a previous post “Conditional Tags”, I am using the WP-Syntax:
Syntax highlighting using GeSHi supporting a wide range of popular languages. Wrap code blocks with <pre lang=”LANGUAGE” line=”1″> and
where LANGUAGE is a geshi supported language syntax. The line attribute is optional. By Ryan McGeary.
I recently downloaded the Register Plus which will…
Enhance your Registration Page. Add Custom Logo, Password Field, Invitation Codes, Disclaimer, Captcha Validation, Email Validation, User Moderation, Profile Fields and more. By Skullbit.
Thing is, the new Register Plus plugin wouldn’t activate while the WP-Syntax plugin was. So what to do? Well I sent a message on over to Skullbit, so I guess I’ll have to wait and see. for now, I will leave the WP-Syntax plugin activated.
Tagged in: compatibility issues, Plugins, Skullbit, WordPress
Aug
08
I just installed the Twitter Tools from Alex King.
So far so good, the plugin has a great option’s panel and you can customize the way the plugin shows up on your blog/site. I am using it currently as a widget (top right).
Tagged in: I Use, Plugins, WordPress
Aug
08
I took this post from my Frosty Web Designs Blog which I am not posting to anymore. I will be using it strictly as my portfolio site.
So I was browsing around online for some new code. I wanted to change the rollover state of the navigation menu depending on which page you were on. So I did a search for Wordress dynamic class. That let me to Elliot Jay Stocks, where he had an article about dynamic body classes. I wasn’t wanting to change the body class or id of my site, but it was in the right direction.
After reading the article and browsing the comments I saw a link to Conditional Tags on Wordpress’ Codex. After searching for the terms I was going to use I had to write the PHP code. I went over to php.net to visit the code for if statements.
I used the following php structured code:
$b) {
echo "a is bigger than b";
$b = $a;
}
?>To apply the code to my page I inserted;
Now where is_page asks the web site if the page that is loaded is the page titled about, then do what ever code it followed, such as:
if (is_page('about')) {
echo "page_item_current";Now if the page about is loaded inside the browser, echo (write)
class="page_item_current"
So lets see what comes next.
if (is_page('about')) {
echo "page_item_current";
} else {
echo "page_item";
}So in the final code you will see the first line asking if the current page loaded it about, and telling the page to write (echo) the class page_item_currentBut, if the current page you are on is not the page about, then just write page_item.
The final code will be placed in between the class quotes where ever you need to use Conditional Tags.
my final code:
<li class="<?php if (is_page('about')) { echo">"><a class="menu-about" href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/about"><span>about me</span></a></li>
The next step is changing you CSS in your stylesheet to display your current page.
My CSS code looked like this:
#menu a:hover {
background-position: left bottom;
}
#menu .page_item_current a {
background-position: left bottom;
}
Tagged in: Conditional Tags, WordPress
Jul
25
I think anyone who is waiting or wanting to upgrade there WP blog to the latest version (2.6) should hold out for just a bit longer till they release an update. Then once 2.6.1 has been released it would be safe to download and upgrade before the release of the next version 2.7!
Tagged in: 2.6, 2.6.1, WordPress
Jul
25
Now that we’re now 10 days into the release of version 2.6 of WordPress, it’d be interesting to look at a few of the numbers around it.
- There have been around 23 thousand downloads per day. (Of just the English version.)
- According to the update system there are 201 thousand blogs using 2.6 already.
- That’s about 9% of all known WordPress.org blogs in 10 days.
- The video in the announcement post has been viewed 665,080 times.
- There have been over 300 themes submitted to the new Theme directory, which launched just 6 days ago.
- In the same period (10 days) there were 579,871 downloads of 2,527 plugins.
I imagine 2.6 adoption will pick up after the 2.6.1 release — a lot of people wait for the .1 before upgrading.
How are we celebrating? By working on 2.7!
It should be a fun release both for the features we have planned and also because it might incorporate some of the aspects of Crazyhorse, our experimental bizarro world dev branch which we’re laser-eye-testing in NYC next week. (700 blogs are running 2.7 already.)
Source: Ma.TT
Tagged in: 2.6, WordPress
Jul
22
I have been real busy working on a few different projects, one of them was my own. I had many products left over from my Inebriated Inc. company I closed down last year. Like t-shirts, hats, koolies and misalliance drinking novelties.
With all that stuff pilling up in my grandmother’s garage, I thought it was time to get rid of it. Since the Inebriated Inc site is used for “industry news”, I used another site (just like it); theInebriated.com to house a shopping cart system. You can head on over and check it out!
Since I finished today, I already have plans to load in some real cool stuff from other company’s who make drinking toys and novelties!
So make sure you check it out! Let me know what you think…
Tagged in: Shopping, The Inebriated, WordPress
Jul
19
Instinct recently updated the already powerful shopping cart WordPress plugin “WP e-Commerce“.
The new 3.6.7, updated with cool new features such as:
- New - Google Checkout Level 2 Integration
- New - Facebook Integration
- New - USPS & Shipwire Integration
- New - Search Engine Friendly
- Coupon & Discounting System
- Members Only & Subscription Module
- Customizable pagination for product listing
- AJAX powered Shopping Cart
- Shop front highlighting for newly added products
- DropShop Module
- Grid View Module
- Customers can access purchase history
- Audio Player Module for selling MP3 files
- Social Networking Tools
- Detailed Purchase Logs (Down-loadable as CSV files)
- Configurable Tax settings
- RSS product feeds
I recently downloaded the plugin, and purchased the Gold Cart option with the Grid View Module. I am incorporating the plugin into one of my new shopping cart sites. Though at this time my site is still being built, you can go check it out once the site is live- The Inebriated: Store & Shopping Cart. The site is a store front for my current blog Inebriated Inc.
Tagged in: Plugins, WordPress, WP e-Commerce
Jul
16
The new WordPress, version 2.6 released yesterday. I have yet to upgrade to the new version on any of my 5 or 6 blogs. But I am sure going to download the final release copy and try out the new features! I had a copy of 2.6 Beta 3 installed on my InebriatedInc.com blog.
I had some issues with Beta 3, but I am sure that the new copy with be mostly problem free. So I will get a copy this weekend and try it out on one of my sites; maybe on my portfolio?
Tagged in: 2.6, WordPress
