Posts in wordpress Category

Apr 24, 2008

It Is Not That Easy To Clone WordPress

I have read quite some tutorials which show how WordPress can be built using certain frameworks in a couple of days or in a matter of seconds. They are quite good, and I personally believe that it helps to write a blogging engine if you want to learn Web programming. Unfortunately these tutorials also lead some to believe that this is all there is to WordPress and ignore its capabilities which are the differentiators, and in my opinion, makes it suitable for much more than just blogs. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: wordpress · Tagged: · (2)

Dec 8, 2007

DiSo, A OpenID And OAuth Prototype

For people like me, who were looking out for something to do with OpenID and OAuth, there is something cooking up already - DiSo. In fact it is more than that, there is use of XFN and one of my other favorite tools, WordPress. Enough about the tools, yes, they do get me excited. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: web, wordpress · Tagged: diso, oauth, openid, social-networking · (0)

Nov 8, 2007

Using WP Super Cache

This blog is now using WP Super Cache, an improved version from Donncha. This blog using the older version, but did face some problems, especially because addition of comments did not refresh the cache. This version should solve the problem. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: asides, this, wordpress · Tagged: caching, wp-super-cache · (12)

Nov 5, 2007

Microformatting This Blog

I have been long reading about microformats and even using them in some projects. But somehow integrating them with this blog has taken this long. This blog is microformatted now, specifically hCard and hAtom. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: feeds, this, web, wordpress · Tagged: hatom, hcard, microformats, themes · (3)

Oct 20, 2007

Mapping Functions to WordPress Versions

I came across the WordPress Functions Implementation History tool through Mark Ghosh. As Ozh explains, you can use it to find life of a function in the WordPress API. One of the disadvantages of a continuous evolving API is that functions get deprecated, they get modified, and they get dropped; and tracking this across the versions can be tedious. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: asides, wordpress · Tagged: wordpress-functions-implementation-history · (0)

Oct 9, 2007

OpenID Site Redesigned, Using WordPress

Simon Willison likes the OpenID.net site. Another trivia, it has been redone using WordPress 2.3. Yes, WordPress is suitable for many non-blog web sites. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: asides, wordpress · Tagged: openid · (1)

Oct 5, 2007

Upgrade FeedSmith

Amit Agarwal informs us that FeedBurner has upgraded the FeedSmith plugin for WordPress to plug a potential security vulenrability, which means that it is an required update. The upgrade is really simple. Even if you are using the older version, just disable it, delete the older file, upload the new one, enable it and you are good to go. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: asides, feeds, wordpress · Tagged: feedburner, feedsmith, plugins · (2)

Sep 25, 2007

WordPress 2.3 And Another Comparison With Movable Type

WordPress 2.3 is out. The release is significant because it has some heavy changes in the schema, to natively support better taxonomy and tagging. I assume that the inherent support for tagging would also make it faster than through the plugins. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: wordpress · Tagged: movable-type · (6)

Sep 22, 2007

I Do Not Use Visual Editors

Jim Stitzel does not use the WordPress visual editor. Me neither. And looking by the response in the comments, it seems a lot many do not use it. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: blogging, web, wordpress · Tagged: wysiwyg, wysiwym · (6)

Sep 17, 2007

Displaying WordPress 2.3 Tags

One of the big changes in WordPress 2.3 is inherent support for tagging. We have used the excellent Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) plugin till today, but tagging seems to have become popular enough for WordPress to support it. Correspondingly, the themes will now have to change to make the appropriate WordPress function call instead of the UTW call to display tags and tag clouds. [Continue]

by Abhijit Nadgouda · Filed: asides, wordpress · Tagged: tags · (3)

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