Archive for 'WordPress'

Deleting or Hiding the Sidebar in WordPress

Many times you’ll add a plugin to your WordPress blog that has to be placed on it’s own page. While most these plugins have the instructions on how to create the extra page to place the plugin on, they don’t give you any extra help. I recently helped a friend that had one such plugin [...]

WordPress & Eval(base64_decode

A good friend of mine sent me an email today asking me if a free theme he was looking into had a virus or some sort of spam code in it. The code he was referring to was a couple strings of code that started out with.. the code went on to show what seem to be [...]

links for 2010-05-13

The Ultimate Start to Finish Guide to Your XBMC Media Center – Xbmc – Lifehacker I’ve used the boxee install to get XBMC on my AppleTV but it’s now time to actually put this on a stand alone machine (maybe a dell mini) since we use it to watch movies and TV shows almost daily. [...]

SweetCron and LifeStreaming

I’ve been playing around with SweetCron and LifeStreaming, trying to connect all my online activities together. SweetCron is a little tougher than wordpress since it’s still very much in beta and may things you have to edit config files yourself, but it’s starting to look good. When I’m finished, I’ll add a link here. Technorati [...]

Why is Your Site Slow?

Image via CrunchBase My wife and I have had a blog site for awhile but just recently we’ve started actually blogging on it. So quickly one night I added a new theme, updated the old version of wordpress that was on the site and added a few plugins for lightbox images and flickr images. Tested [...]

I blog with a little help from my Zemanta

Image via CrunchBase This week I started using Zemanta, a firefox plugin that boast: Simple point & click enrichment of your blog posts (and emails). In real-time, while you type. We suggest tags, links, photos, and related articles. You save time and aspirin At first glance, my thoughts were that this was just another way [...]

Bringing Traffic to Your Site

I have friends that ask me how I end up with hundreds of hits even when my site hasn’t been updated in months (Which I’m changing lately!) They think that someone needs to buy traffic through Google or have some secret, the truth is, you can find traffic, it takes your time but doesn’t cost [...]

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Getting Pretty Code Boxes in WordPress

-Edit- I’ve now started using SyntaxHighlighter Evolved ignore all below! One of the problems I’ve run into with WordPress was when I wanted to post code, what usually happens is WordPress will try to run the code i’ve posted, both messing up the layout of the page and then noone can see the code I’ve [...]

WordPress User Pages (part 3)

-Update- While most of this is out dated as per line numbers and such, you can still get the basic idea on changes that need made. If you’ve missed them read Part1 and Part2. So in part2 we changed the code to the Register Plus plugin to allow for instructions for our defined fields. Today [...]