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Automatically post from WordPress, Twitter, and Facebook

Automatically post from WordPress, Twitter, and Facebook. Here’s a tutorial on how I did it: 1) Download and install the TwitPress plugin and install the TwitPress plugin on your WordPress blog. This app will allow you to automatically repost all your WordPress posts to to your...

There’s been an error posting your Twitter status!

There’s been an error posting your Twitter status! Visit your WP to Twitter settings page to get more information and to clear this error message. One or more of your last posts has failed to send it’s status update to Twitter. Your Tweet has been saved in your post custom fields, and you can re-Tweet it at your leisure. Sorry! I...

15+ Facebook Wordpress Plugins and Widgets

1. Add to Facebook Once you install this plugin on your WordPress blog, you can see a footer link at the bottom of each blog post. By clicking on this link, user can add...

Wordpress: How to Auto-post Your Blog to Facebook

How to Auto-Post Your Articles to Facebook One of the easiest ways to share your latest blog post is to notify your friends and followers on social networking sites. If you have a Facebook account, and are currently using WordPress, Blogger or a similar account for your blogging, you have the option of auto-post. Auto-posting your latest...

Do Follow Plugin For WordPress

The dofollow plugin for WordPress lets you remove the evil nofollow attribute from your comments. Because nofollow will not work. You can find a full discussion of why you should not use the...

Wordpress Mu Shared Hosting HostGator Wildcard Domains

It actually really is very easy to set up Wordpress Mu on HostGator Shared Hosting (I have Baby Croc). I believe all HostGator accounts come with CPanel X3 by default. So, the steps are: 1. Download Wordpress Mu 2. Upload to public html domain you wish to use 3. Create Mysql database and user w/ full rights 4. Run the installer script...

Wordpress Plugin: W3 Total Cache

I heard about a new Wordpress caching plugin called W3 Total Cache, which claimed to literally do-it-all. The author implemented every speed enhancing feature he could think of, and then added even more. W3 Total Cache claims to offer the following features and...

How to install Wordpress MU in 8 steps

Step 1: Download Wordpress MU (http://mu.wordpress.org/download/) Step 2: Extract all files into desired folder (ex: http://www.yourdomain.com/blogs/) Step 3: Read README.txt Step 4: Enable mod-rewrite For Apache on my machine, mod-rewrite is not enabled by default. Instructions for enabling it...

Installing to http://localhost/ is not supported. Please use http://localhost.localdomain/ instead

http://localhost/ is the default name of your local computer. To change it to localhost.locadomain ( or anything really) you woudl have had to edit your computer’s host file. naturally, on a webserver live on the internet, hooked to a real domain, you don’t get this message. And to reinstall, the only thing...

WordPress Comment Blacklist (Download txt file)

WordPress Comment Blacklist Included on your Options > Discussion panel is a section called the Comment Blacklist. This is a list of words completely blacklisted from your blog. Be very careful what you add here. If a comment matches something here it will be completely nuked and there will be no notification. These “nuked”...

Customising wp_list_comments()

Customising wp_list_comments()

How to use custom callback functions to customise the output of wp_list_comments() Wordpress template tag in order to display Trackbacks and Pings differently to normal comments. Wordpress 2.7 introduced a simplified way of listing comments with a new function called wp_list_comments() for use in a theme’s comments.php. This automatically...

Wordpress Comment Template

Wordpress Comment Template

Unraveling the Secrets of WordPress’ Comments.php File WordPress seems to be everywhere these days, and it’s no wonder with it’s ease of use and ease of customization. In this tutorial, I’ll be dissecting the default WordPress theme’s comments.php structure and giving you various snippets of code to make your skinning...

Wordpress How to: Remove /category/ from WordPress url

By default, WordPress category permalinks are displayed that way: http://www.buzzcrunch.net/category/wordpress As you can see, the category in the url is pretty useless. Here’s how to remove it: First backup your .htaccess file. Then, open it and append the following...

Wordpress Down for Over an Hour, WordPress Problems Confirmed

Experiencing WordPress problems? Tweets from Twitter users and a Twitter post from WordPress.com confirm that publishing platform is down. WordPress wrote in a tweet: “WordPress.com is down, we’re working on restoring service now.” As Center Network notes, sites...

Star Magazine WordPress Theme Download

Star Magazine WordPress Theme Download

Star Magazine is a stylish magazine style premium WordPress theme ideal for content heavy sites wishing to display maximum content on the homepage. The theme features a customisable homepage layout, automatic thumbnail creation, custom widgets, an integrated backend options panel, 7 unique colour schemes and more. Star Magazine Theme...