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Testing of Plugins and Themes on WP 2.5

March 10th, 2008 Wordpress

Themes

All themes should work fine in Wordpress 2.5

Plugins

Feedburner SiteStats
Working fine.

Announcement
Working fine, except for the feature “Different message for different roles/users”.

Pre-Publish Reminder
Broken, reminders showing up in the wrong places due to new admin interface

YouTube Comments
Broken, unable to fetch any comments

Todo

Will fix the broken plugins once I digest the documentation.



Video Tutorials For Wordpress Users

March 7th, 2008 Wordpress

Quick List:

Installation
» How To Install Wordpress Blog From Cpanel
» Installing WordPress To Your Free Hosting Server Part 1/3
» Installing WordPress To Your Free Hosting Server Part 2/3
» Installing WordPress To Your Free Hosting Server Part 3/3
» Installing on a Local Server
» How To Edit the wp-config File For WordPress
» How to Upgrade Wordpress

Posting
» How to Post to a Wordpress Blog
» How to Make a New WordPress Post
» How to Insert an Image & Make It a Link
» Insert Text from Word or Other Doc
» How to Wrap Text Around an Image
» How to Make a New WordPress Page
» How to Edit a WordPress Page

Themes
» How to Activate a New WordPress Theme
» Install Theme In Wordpress
» How To Tweak or Edit Your WordPress Theme
» How to Put Adsense on Your Wordpress Blog
» How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template
» Make a Static Page Your Home-Front Page
» Custom Wordpress Homepage (Method1 Raw code)
» Custom Wordpress Homepage (Method2 WP Admin Panel Homepage)
» Custom Wordpress Homepage

Plugins
» Install Plugin in Wordpress
» Install Plugin in Wordpress
» Wordpress Plugin Creation

Search Engine Optimization
» SEO Your Wordpress Blog - Part I
» SEO Your Wordpress Blog - Part II

Administration
» Recover WordPress Password When You Have Forgotten It

(more…)



Firefox Addon: Show Missing Images

February 19th, 2008 Web Development

By using the supercool userscript compiler, I compiled the Show Missing Images Greasemonkey Script to a standalone Firefox Addon. Now there’s no need to install the greasemonkey firefox addon. Here’s a little background on the need for this addon.

Help me if you have an account on Mozilla Add-ons: Currently this addon is in the sandbox, please give a short review for this addon so that it can make it to the public site. Thanks! Here’s the link to my Firefox extension.

Features

  • Display missing images regardless of ALT tags
  • Mouseover broken image to view the original image’s source url

Preview

Missing Images in Firefox with Show Missing Images Firefox Addon

Download

Name: Show Missing Images FF Addon
Size: 7,23 kBytes
FileType: .xpi-File
Downloads: 510
[Download Now]



Greasemonkey Script: Show Missing Images

February 12th, 2008 Web Development

Firefox handles missing images in different ways depending on the ALT attribute.

Case 1: Missing Image with No ALT attribute
- Display a broken image

Case 2: Missing Image with ALT=”"
- No indication whatsoever, just a blank space

Case 3: Missing Image with ALT=”Something”
- Display only the text in ALT, no image placeholder to indicate presence of image

Picture: Missing Images in Firefox
Firefox Missing/Broken Images

I guess Firefox is conforming to the W3C standards of displaying the ALT text if the image is missing/broken or unavailable. However this can prove to be a hassle for web designers as they can’t easily tell whether there are any missing images on their webpage. Worse, they may not even be aware of any missing images. Until they view the webpage in IE (Microsoft deserve some love eh :) )

Picture: Missing Images in Internet Explorer
Missing Images in IE

So I came up with my first Greasemonkey script which does only one simple thing - display all missing images, just like in IE.

Features

  • Display missing images regardless of ALT tags
  • Mouseover broken image to view the original image’s source url

Installation

1) Install Greasemonkey Firefox Addon and restart Firefox (if not already installed)
2) Click on the “Download Now” link below
3) Click install

Preview

Picture: Missing Images in Firefox with Show Missing Images GM Script
Missing Images in Firefox with Show Missing Images GM Script

Download

Name: Show Missing Images GM Script
Size: 1,76 kBytes
FileType: .js-File
Downloads: 786
[Download Now]



Theme Bugfix: Blogging Pro

February 5th, 2008 Wordpress

This theme is not designed by me but I am using it at phpBBcast.com. Came across some bugs and just like to share the fixes for them. These changes applies to a fresh Blogging Pro Theme [widgets ready]. If you have modified it or using the non-widgets version, the following code snippets may vary.

1) If you do a search and click on “Previous Entries” in the search results page, it brings you to the main blog’s page 2 (instead of the search results page 2).

File to be edited: header.php
Replace

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">

With

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="get">

2) Non-align search corner in Iternet Explorer
BloggingPro Search Corner

File to be edited: header.php
Replace

<div class="SearchCorner"></div>

With

<div class="SearchCorner">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>

3) Top blue bar does not show up intermittently
BloggingPro Missing Header

File to be edited: style.css
Replace

#bgcontain { width: 100%; background: url(./images/bkg_bgcontain.png) repeat-x;}

With

#bgcontain { width: 100%; }

4) Footer with extra space and characters in Internet Explorer
BloggingPro Footer

File to be edited: footer.php
Replace

<?php do_action('wp_footer', ''); ?>

With

<ul><li></li></ul>
<?php do_action('wp_footer', ''); ?>



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