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Wordpress 2.8 Released

June 11th, 2009 Category: Wordpress

Some hours ago Wordpress Version 2.8 has been released. All major changes and new features are listed on

• codex.wordpress.org

I’ve used the automatic upgrade within the administration panel on two blogs with different plugins installed. On both blogs I could not detect a problem after the automatic upgrade.

WP 2.8 comes with many changes, but I could not detect one which is important for me.

Wordpress Favicon Plugin

June 7th, 2009 Category: Wordpress Missing the favicon in your Wordpress blog? Then you should install the MaxBlogPress Favicion plugin. It’s easy to use and comes with 100 pre installed icons. Or you are able to upload you own icon.

Problems

After installation the MaxBlogPress Favicion on the TechniTip.Net blog all pages were returned empty to the browser. I don’t know exactly what did cause this issue, but could solve it  by changing the plugin code injecting mode:

Enter Settings->MBP Favicon->Advanced Options and checked [x] wp_head() instead of Buffer Caching.

Afterwards everything was fine.

Installation

• Install via download from MaxBlogPress Favicion and unpack it to your plugin folder
  
• Or search for “MaxBlogPress Favicion” in the plugin section in your WP-Admin if you have Wordpress 2.7 or newer installed

Links

• MaxBlogPress Favicion

WPtouch: Mobile Plugin&Theme for Wordpress

June 3rd, 2009 Category: Wordpress

An incredible cool plugin for Wordpress and all mobile devices like iPhone, iPod, Android or Blackberry is “WPtouch“. It automatically generates pages for perfect display on mobile devices from your Wordpress blog. Installation is totally easy and the result is looking great!

See the difference:

The single post view:

Installation

If you have Wordpress 2.7 or newer installed, the installation can be done with a few clicks:

• Enter the admin page and select “Plugins”
• Scroll down to the section “Get More Plugins”
• Select “Plugin Browser/Installer”
• Search for “WPtouch” and install

Otherwise you have to go the manual way.

Problems with WP Super Cache

If you are using WPtouch together with the WP Super Cache plugin you may run into trouble, I solved it with the following steps:

1. In Settings->WP Super Cache add the following Recected User Agents:
   iPhone
   iPod
   aspen
   dream
   incognito
   webmate
   BlackBerry9500
   BlackBerry9530
2. Add the following line in your .htaccess
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.+(iPhone|iPod|aspen|dream|incognito|webmate|BlackBerry9500|BlackBerry9530)
   This line should be inserted above the following existing line:
   RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f

Links

• WPtouch: WordPress on iPhone, iPod & Android
• WPtouch iPhone Theme

Useful Wordpress Plugins

January 2nd, 2009 Category: Wordpress

This is my collection of useful wordpress plugins.

• Social bookmarking plugin
  Add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites.
• Google sitemap generator plugin
  This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
• All in One SEO pack plugin
  Automatic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) out of the box for your wordpress blog.
• NextGEN Gallery plugin
  Really nice and easy to use gallery script for wordpress.
• Askmet plugin
  Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
• Google Analytics plugin
  The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.
• Cross-references plugin
  Useful plugin for manually setting a reference to another post or page. It will generate backward references automatically.
• WP Super Cache
  This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
• WPtouch: Mobile Plugin&Theme for Wordpress
  It automatically generates pages for perfect display on mobile devices from your Wordpress blog.
• MaxBlogPress Favicon
  Adds a favicon icon to your Wordpress blog with 100 pre installed icons.
• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
  Gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry.