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TextMate WordPress Widget Snippet & Mark on WordPress

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:45:31 -0700

I don't use TextMate, but this will be useful to any developer who works with WordPress.

From the page: "I love WordPress' sidebar widgets. I also despise coding them. [snip] So I created this TextMate snippet to make it easier:"

How to disable scripts and styles

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:16:33 -0700

From the page: "Many plugins and themes add JavaScript and CSS files to your site. While this alone isn�t necessarily a bad thing, using several plugins that do this can bog down your site with loads of requests for these files. The good news is that WordPress has a built-in system that allows us to deregister these scripts and styles."

Adding Sites to Sociable - Yoast - Tweaking Websites

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:23:17 -0700

From the page: "While Sociable comes with a pretty large set of sites, there are always people that want to add their own. While this is pretty easy to do, you'd have to update the plugin every time it's updated, which is quite often, so that's not really a workable solution."

This post provides the solution

Official Google Australia Blog: Tasks graduates from Gmail Labs

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:27:31 -0700

Google Australia's announcement of Tasks graduating from Google Labs (ie experimental products) to a mainstream product.

Presenting SEO Super Comments Concept

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:06:12 -0700

Potentially great idea / WordPress plugin which will improve a site's SEO by creating a virtual page for the user's comment and linking to that from the main page, rather than linking directly to the commentator's site.

Theme Playground | Crafting Your Theme Framework's Structure and Layout

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:24:50 -0700

Part of the series looking at creating a theme framework for WordPress

WordPress 2.8.1 Beta By End Of The Week

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:48:46 -0700

News that WordPress 2.8.1 is coming soon and a target date for WordPress 2.9

jQuery Inline Form Labels | Trevor Davis

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:45:18 -0700

Neat solution to adding inline labels to form fields. Read the comments about using as well.

From the page: "Instead of using a label that is next to or above the input element, the label is actually within the input. Then, when the input is focused, the label goes away and you can enter your value into it"

Guangzhou Theme - WordPress & bbPress | Urban Giraffe

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:55:16 -0700

This is a great theme from one of true WordPress gurus

From the page: "Guangzhou is a two-column fixed width theme for both WordPress and bbPress. It is highly configurable, with two widget areas (sidebar and bottom), as well as customisable skins and many other options."

Handling Plugins Options in WordPress 2.8 with register_setting() & planetOzh

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:23:38 -0700

Essential reading for WordPress plugin developers