Archived entries for WordPress
[WordPress] Filter Adult SPAM
If you use WordPress as your blogging platform and tired of receiving tons of viagra and related SPAM, bot generated comments, make use of the WordPress Comment Blacklist feature. You can find this feature in Admin CP >> Options >> Discussion.
You can use this feature to stop almost 95% SPAM messages. I’ve been using this option for past couple of months and find it pretty helpful. Just add ‘viagra’ and similar words in the Comment Blacklist box and see the magic!
WordPress to Launch Theme Marketplace
Marshall Kirkpatrick of Read/WriteWeb reported that WordPress is to launch a WordPress theme marketplace:
“The idea is that designers will be able to upload themes, we put a price (Automattic takes half), and users can navigate the directory and quickly select, pay and install a template, everything from the same place and without major expertise.”
Visit Read/WriteWeb to read the whole article: WordPress Launching Theme Marketplace
A 50/50 deal. Sounds tough, no?
WordPress 2.3 Stable Released
… and is available for download.
Take a look at the major new feature additions:
- Native Tagging Support – allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your post, if you so choose. Importers for the Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jeromes Keywords, Simple Tags, and Bunnys Technorati Tag plugins have also been included so if youve already been using a tagging plugin you can bring your data into the new system.
- The new update notification feature lets you know when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an update available. It works by sending your blog URL, plugins, and version information to the new api.wordpress.org service which then compares it to the plugin database and tells you what the latest and greatest is you can use.
- A new feature called canonical URLs is super cool. It enforces your no-www preference, redirect posts with changed slugs so a link never goes bad, redirect URLs that get cut off in emails on similar to the correct post, and much more. This helps your users, and it also helps your search engine optimization, as search engines like for each page to be available in one canonical location.
- Pending Review feature – Cool for multi-author blogs. It allows authors to submit a post for review by an editor or administrator, where before they would just have to save a draft and hope someone noticed it.
- There is new advanced WYSIWYG functionality that allows you to access some features of TinyMCE that were previously hidden.
And now something cool for developers:
1. Full and complete Atom 1.0 support, including the publishing protocol.
2. Were using the new jQuery whis is 800% faster.
3. Behind the user-facing tags system is a really kickass taxonomy system which, which adds a ton of flexibility. Its probably the biggest schema upgrade since version 1.5.
4. The importers have been revamped to be more memory efficient, and you can now add an importer through a plugin.
5. Through hooks and filters you can now override the update system, the dashboard RSS feeds, the feed parser, and tons more than you could in 2.2.
6. The new $wpdb->prepare() way of doing SQL queries.
7. Finally there were over 351 tickets in Trac closed for this release, with over a hundred people contributing. This is the polish, the hundreds of tiny bug fixes and features that make WordPress what it is.
All I can say is that I’m pretty happy about the ‘Update Notification’ and ‘Canonical URLs’ features. You know, I’ve been eagerly waiting for this release. Since WP 2.3 stable is available now, I can upgrade my blog in a click using my DreamHost control panel. :)
What do YOU like about WordPress 2.3? What are the newly added features in this release that you’re happy about?
VIA: WordPress 2.3
WordPrexy – Cloned EVERY Single WordPress.com Hosted Blogs
UPDATE: There is nothing to worry about. Read the comments. It seems like my guess was correct. There wasn’t any security issue with the WordPress.com hosted blogs.
If your blog is hosted @ WordPress.com, an Automattic service, this is the time to wake up and ask the Automattic guys what is WordPrexy.
Amyth, who hosts his blog @ WordPress.com reported that there is a Turkish site, WordPrexy, that has cloned every WordPress.com hosted blogs and now showing Google AdSense ads on ‘em. Here is the original post:
While randomly blog-surfing I found this blog which said someone accidentally discovered Wordprexy. Basically ALL Wordpress blogs (Yes, Including yours if you blog on Wordpress) have a clone at Wordprexy. If you have a blog on Wordpress.Com, you can probably punch in your URL and see your clone as well!
I punched in http://talkingtails.wordprexy.com and was surprised to see my blog on Wordprexy with some sort of a Disclaimer at the footer written in Turkish! The only difference between my Wordpress blog and its clone on Wordprexy (sic!) is that the latter has Google Ads Something I havent subscribed to. Basically, someone has exported ALL Wordpress.com blogs and has tweaked the script to add Google Ads.. Further, Googling for Wordprexy again brought up some queer Turkish pages. Searching on Wordpress internal forums and FAQs didnt yeild anything either!Are they a bunch of hackers making money out of other peoples content?? I wonder!
If youre reading this, please shed some light.. Id be glad if you did!
After reading this post, I checked my old WordPress.com hosted blog that is in private mode and was shocked when WordPrexy redirected me to a login page. It just proved that every single blog has been copied, no matter if they’re private or public.
When I visited the WordPrexy.com site, I realized that everything that is hosted on WordPress.com has been copied, including the home page items. I tried to read the WordPrexy Terms of Service but the page wasn’t available. Then I went through WordPress.com ToS and Automattic Privacy Policy but there was no mention about WordPrexy.
As Amyth writes, every cloned blog is showing a Turkish disclaimer in the footer. If any AVINASH 2.0 reader is from Turkey, I’ll appreciate it if you translate this disclaimer found @ cloned TalkingTails blog:
Wordprexy.com: Disclaimer – Yasal
WordPrexy.com sadece WordPress.com’un icerigini yansilamaktadir. WordPrexy.com ve GreatFirewallofTurkey.com sitedeki icerikten sorumlu degildir. Bize ulasmak icin bu formu kullanabilirsiniz. Uygunsuz icerik barindiran veya hakkinda yasal olarak kapatilmasi icin bildirim yapilan adreslerin erisimi durdurulmaktadir.
As far as I can guess, the disclaimer has mentioned something about Turkey banning the whole WordPress.com site so the WordPrexy site may also be internally related to WordPress. I just want to suggest that before you start worrying about your data, please contact WordPress support to check if WordPrexy is a try to make the WordPress.com contents available to Turkish people.
If they don’t have any idea about WordPrexy, I’ll be amazed.
WordPress 2.2.3 Released
Alright, folks! It’s time to upgrade your WordPress blog, again. WordPress 2.2.3 has just been released and since it’s a security and bug-fix release for the 2.2 series, upgrade is highly recommended.
You can download the latest version from the official WordPress download page.
Introducing Avirb Motion – A No-Image Attached, 3 Column WordPress Theme
I designed Avirb Motion, a no-image attached theme for WordPress users, because some people are really too lazy to design a logo and replace the default theme logo with their own brand. Because of the lack of images, the theme also saves your bandwidth.
Important: As soon as you activate the theme, go to the “Presentation >> Widget” tab and add the required widgets in the dynamic sidebars. If you don’t pick the widgets, your blog is gonna look like a desert!
Web Standards:
- Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict
- Valid CSS 3
Main Features:
- Free!
- Comes with no-image attached
- Top & bottom navigation bars
- 3 columns
- 2 widgets friendly sidebars
- Highlights author comments
- SEO friendly
- ability to generate search engine friendly titles
SidebarBlogroll is visible only @ the home page
Demo:
If the screenshot wasn’t enough, see the Avirb Motion live demo.
Download Link:
[download#2]
How to use?
- Once you’ve uploaded and activated the theme, go to the WordPress Theme Editor and replace the old email id with your own blog author email id in the ‘comments.php‘ file. The email id should be easily visible.
- Do adjust your META tags in the header.php file.
- Go to the Options >> Permalinks tab and add “/%category%/%postname%.html” in the ‘Custom Structure’ text box. Don’t forget to save the changes. Now the theme will automatically take care of your SEO-rich page titles.
Discovered a bug?
Though I haven’t encountered any bug in the theme, bug reports are highly appreciated. You can report about bugs via my contact form.
Feedbacks:
If you like this theme, please do let me know in your comments! If you need any help with the theme, feel free to ask. I’ll love to help if I’m not busy. :)
A Minor Request:
If you are going to use this theme on your blog, I’ll be pretty happy if you don’t remove the theme credit link from the theme footer. I spend hours designing the themes and when someone steals the themes, I feel pretty bad.
I wouldn’t request but some people just don’t understand..
UPDATE: I discovered a bug soon after writing this post. What a disaster! Apologizes to the first three people who downloaded the theme. I suggest to re-download the theme or if you’re lazy like me, just remove the “Theme Viewer” bit from the ‘sidebar.php‘ file.
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WordPress Random Posts Widget – Because Old Post Matters!
Check out WordPress Random Posts Widget if you are a WordPress user and want to keep your old posts visible on the front page.
The widget has some weight that’s why I decided to use it on my blog. It provides you the option to select how many ‘random posts’ you wanna show whenever someone visits your blog. You can show upto 10 random posts in your sidebar. The coolest thing, though, is the ability to show posts from any particular category.
Take a look at my sidebar to see a working demo. The widget installation and configuration is pretty easy so non-tech people don’t need to be worried.
[tags]WordPress, WordPress plugins, Plugins, Widgets [/tags]
WordPress MU 1.2.4 Released
WordPress MU 1.2.4 has been released. Since this release is based on WordPress 2.2.2, a security release, upgrade is highly recommended.
Visit the WordPress MU trunk page to check the changed files.
Download link:
You can download WordPRess MU by visiting the official WordPress MU download page.
[tags]WordPress, WordPress MU[/tags]
Introducing AVirb Glow, A WordPress Theme For Professionals
Here we go again! One more WordPress theme is ready. I hope you like this theme.
Web Standards
- Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict
- Valid CSS 3
Main Features
- Free!
- 4 widgets friendly sidebars! (Do they really look like sidebars?!)
- SEO Friendly
- Highlights Author Comments
- Enough content space to post even big pictures!
- Logo PSD available on request
Demo:
If this screenshot wasn’t enough, visit this Avirb Glow demo site.
Download Link:
[download#1]
How to use?
- Once you’ve uploaded and activated the theme, go to the WordPress Theme Editor and replace the old email id with your own blog author email id in the ‘comments.php‘ file. The email id should be easily visible.
- Do adjust your META tags in the header.php file.
- Go to the Options >> Permalinks tab and add
/%category%/%postname%.htmlin the ‘Custom Structure’ text box. Don’t forget to save the changes. Now the theme will automatically take care of your SEO-rich page titles.
Discovered a bug?
Though I cant see any bug in the theme in this 3rd test, bug reports are very welcome! You can report me about bugs via my contact form.
Feedbacks:
If you like this theme, please do let me know in your comments! Both positive and negative feedbacks are highly welcome so please feel free to guide me if you think this theme needs some improvements.
Enjoy!
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Introducing AVirb, A WordPress Theme For Professionals
My regular readers may have realized that my blog is wearing a golden dress today. Actually, I started working on this theme about 14hrs ago and now it’s going under live test on a heavy blog. This is the 3rd test and AVirb seems to be doing just fine.
I’m not saying that it can’t have bugs. After all, it’s just a 14hr old kid. With that said, let’s find out what’s cool about this theme:
Let’s start with Web Standards:
- Valid CSS 3
- Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict
Main Features:
- Free!
- 4 widgets friendly sidebars!
- Highlights author comments
- SEO friendly
- Commented code
- Visitor friendly
- Doesn’t bite its operator!
Before you start going all red and yellow about the sidebars, I’ll suggest you to check the code. The sidebars are designed in a way that it’s possible to customize the sidebars without ever touching the code. In other words, the sidebars are highly widget-friendly with a different taste. But the ‘geeks’ still have the option to extend the sidebar by manually adding extra codes.
Demo:
At this very moment, my whole blog is a live demo, man!
Download Link:
Hold on! Here is the catch, well, kind of. If you like this theme and wanna use it on your blogs, please contact me! This allows you to download AVirb with all the latest feature additions. Just send a short message that you wanna use this theme and I’ll send you the download link.
Discovered a bug?
Though I can’t see any bug in the theme in this 3rd test, bug reports are very welcome! You can report me about bugs via my contact form.
Um, that’s it.
[tags]WordPress, WordPress Theme, Themes, Free Themes, AVirb[/tags]
