Dec 10, 2011

I upgraded nginx on my server and all was well, or so I thought…. (TL;DR at the bottom) Feeling good about my self I patted my back and went to bed. The next day I was writing a new post when after uploading a photo to WordPress it did not load in the editor. So after a little struggling I figured out why non of the images from the /files/ directory in...

Mar 22, 2011

Yoast had this great info graphic about wordpress I just had to share with everyone. I reposted here for posterity’s sake because I think this would be usefull down the line for reference as well. Although this does do a great job of going through all the caveats to a traditional theme, not all theme adhere to this model. Some WordPress themes...

Mar 21, 2011

Well I got bored one night, and you know how bored evenings can go and I created a Shiny new WordPress 3+ theme named 2Clone. TL;DR… Goto bottom for Demo and Download Links Why? I’ve been thinking of 2leep a lot lately and thought that their layout would make for an interesting theme. So I set out on making it into a wordpress theme, cause it...

Jan 29, 2011

I pose a simple question: Is a bump in traffic worth some of your site’s real estate? If you’ve followed my post about 2leep, then you’ll know where I’m going with this.  There are services out there offering you the opportunity to exchange traffic with other blogs. (Remember the webring days of yore?) But these suped-up modern...

Jun 25, 2010

WP Core hacking I used this code recently to hack wordpress’s core to allow image uploads that have no file extension.I was getting a invalid file type security error and had tried all sorts of httaccess trickery to get it to work when I finally resorted to hacking the core of WordPress MU 3.0. This is pretty easy as I found out and only required me to...

Jun 1, 2010

Adding icons from your wordpress posts to the Facbook recommend widget is really easy. Adding thumbnails to the facebook recommend or like widget in wordpress is super easy if you already use a custom field to store the thumbnail location for each post. This is a great way to add thumbnails and can really make your website stand out on facebook. You can look...

May 13, 2010

Effectively blocking Comment Link spam in WordPress A simple little wordpress setting can save you a lot of  headachs in regards to WordPress Spam Comments…So I noticed about 330 Spam Comments that needed moderation in my WordPress the other day and that’s when I hit my limit. I hate spammers, and link spammers are the worst. They spam links in...