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WordPress Tutorial: Managing WordPress Auto-save and Post Revisi. One of the hot new features of 2.6 is post/page revision management. This is a splendid feature for multi-author blogs because it allows you to see what was changed in a post, by whom and when. Unfortunately, this is a bit overboard for single author bloggers who truly don’t need to keep a running tally of every single revision. Since WordPress developers didn’t disable this feature by default or provide a distinct option under Settings, it will require a bit of file editing or installation of a plugin to properly manage. Disabling or Limiting Post Revision Control There is a section in the Codex which deals with the revision management, but for someone who is not well versed in structuring PHP statements or setting constant variables, it falls into the not particularly helpful category. That’s where this tutorial comes in. Before we get started, you’ll be making edits to your wp-config.php file, so it’s important for you to make a back up copy and save it in a safe place.

Example:<? WordPress.tv. Blog » WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version. (Download it now, or read on for more.) Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts.

Digging in further you might notice that every screen is customizable. Let’s say you never care about author on your post listings — just click “Screen Options” and uncheck it and it’s instantly gone from the page. It’s all about you. The Future. 8 WordPress Plugins for Page Management - Mashable. While the page feature in WordPress has been a mainstay of the blogging platform for years, it doesn't get a whole lot of love from the programmers or plugin community. Here are 8 plugins that are compatible with at least WordPress 2.5 that will allow you to change their order, make sub-pages easier to navigate, add tags and more.

As always, don't install all of these unless you want to decrease your blog's response time. My Page Order - A simple plugin that allows you to easily rearrange your pages into whatever order you'd like. pageMash - Gives you AJAX control over the order of your pages and the ability to hide ones you don't want to be seen. Page Management Dropdown - Allows you to choose which page to edit from a drop down menu as well as gives you the option of starting a new page. Page Restrict - You can select all, none or some of your pages to be viewable only by registered users. Google Chrome | Smashing Free Wordpress Themes. Wptouch: wordpress iphonified » BraveNewCode. Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » Woopra and WordPress: U. Woopra was opened up to the world at the Dallas WordCamp where I met John for the first time.

His talk was not on Woopra but he introduced it to the event in a very short, three minute spiel. Since then Woopra has generated a tremendous amount of buzz in blogging circles. In short, Woopra is a stats tool for websites that lives as an application on your desktop (among other places) and can provide live webstats on your visitors. I like it since it is fast and since the developers gave me an opportunity to look at the insides early on, I have developed quite a fondness for it.

They are in growth mode and with the recent upgrade to their desktop client, they can support more locations and are in the process of approving a large number of new users for their service. All of the following assumes that you have an active Woopra account, are using WordPress, have the WordPress plugin installed and have the Woopra application (1.1.1.0) installed on your machine. Woopra is a great tool. Howdy! Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » Batch Category Editor.

Just the other day, I ran into a problem. I deleted a number of categories on my blog and since WordPress does not give you the option of reassigning the posts within those categories to another category, all of those posts were reassigned to Uncategorized. The answer to this problem? Batch Categories. Batch Categories is a WordPress plugin written by Rob Miller that adds some powerful functionality into the default WordPress category editor.

There are two different versions of this plugin. Howdy! Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins | Blueprint Design Studio. For moderately sized sites (including simple e-Commerce sites), WordPress does a pretty good job as a CMS, making it easy to maintain your site, and update your content. Of course, it does this best with the help of a good theme, and some great WordPress CMS plugins. The strength of WordPress is the community of developers who have already done almost anything you can think of with it. Here are the best plugins we’ve run across, the ones we install for nearly all of our client’s sites. Cforms II – This is far and away the best contact form plugin there is. The reason? Bigger than Plugins: DFGallery by Dezinerfolio provides an easy way to set up a flash slideshow without relying on flickr, or another external service.

WP Contact Manager by The Design Canopy is a great start on a project to make wordpress into a directory. Want more? Support » Akismet: how to stop false positives? This isn't possible with the stock Akismet plug-in. While Akismet is very well integrated into WP, it's written to be the final arbiter of the comment. By that I mean it marks the comment as 'spam' after all of the other stock WP functions have run - including the whitelist.

If you look in akismet_auto_check_comment() you'll see that if the web service returns true, it installs a pre_comment_approved filter that simply returns 'spam'. If you code, it should be very simple to either add a whitelist text control to Akismet and add a check of the comment against that or add a call to check_comment() (from /wp-includes/comment.php which will be loaded since it's the thing that's calling the plugin) and have that be a final savior of a comment from the spam bucket. I like the check_comment() route because it approves tracebacks and pingbacks against your blogroll and approves comments from people with other approved comments. If you want explicit control, the whitelist approach gives you that. Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » WordPress as a Membersh. Tutorials : iThemes : Premium WordPress Themes. Menu iThemes Your one-stop shop for WordPress themes, plugins and training.

WordPress Tutorials We've created these free WordPress tutorials to help get you and your clients acquainted with the world's best web publishing platform - WordPress. We'll do our best to add more and update these videos when WordPress changes. iThemes Security Hide Login Setting Overview Getting Started with iThemes Security iThemes Sync BackupBuddy Stash Integration iThemes Sync BackupBuddy Integration The iThemes Sync Dashboard Managing Plugins with iThemes Sync Managing Themes in iThemes Sync iThemes Sync Overview Exchange Add-on: Custom URL Tracking Exchange Add-on: Customer Pricing Exchange Add-on: Featured Video Exchange Add-on: Free Offers Exchange Add-on: Guest Checkout Exchange Add-on: Invoices Exchange Add-on: Manual Purchases Exchange Add-on: bbPress Membership Exchange Add-on: Simple Shipping Membership Shortcodes in Exchange Exchange Add-on: Billing Address Exchange Add-on: Memberships Exchange Add-on: Physical Products.

100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer&#039;s Toolbox | Geek ramblings » Creating a secure WordPress install. Oct302007 Over on BlogSecurity, there’s a whitepaper on How to create a secure WordPress install. It covers several areas, including MySQL setup, WordPress user configuration, Apache protection of directories, and some useful plugins.

I’ve glanced over it, and I have mixed feelings. Here’s a quick list of notes, off the top of my head: Pros: There is detailed information about granting the minimum privileges necessary for the MySQL login. Cons: There is a lot of space spent talking about changing the table prefix. Despite being a little light, I think work like this is important and useful. Like this: Like Loading... About Dougal Campbell Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. » WordPress 2.3.1 Beta 1. Aiming for Independence » How To Add Wordpress 2.3 Tags To Your. A look inside the WordPress database « WordPress Bits. Update: This article is also available in Chinese (thanks to Denis). WordPress, as most other modern content management systems, is a very database-centric application.

It keeps all information in the database – blog settings, posts, comments, links, users, etc. Therefor it is important to understand how the database is organized, what types of data is stored there, and how different things are linked to each other. But before we dive into it, here are three points that I want to stress out: WordPress API provides a number of ways to manipulate data without directly accessing the database. OK, now let’s see what is there to see. For the rest of the article, you’ll need either another browser tab with previously mentioned database description at Codex, or a database tool, such as PHPMyAdmin or MySQL command line. Wp_posts WordPress is mostly used as a blogging engine content management system (CMS, for short). Pages, posts, and attachments can be very similar and they can be very different.