I created a local WordPress a while ago that gets fed by xml-rpc from an application that plays my music, it logs albums that have been played and/or added again to the playlist). As an example of what can be done you can now see what is currently being played at my home, under the… Read more »
Some plugins insist on setting their own styles, this is very annoying when it clashes with the theme you use. Needed to hack the related posts plugin to remove font settings (all window fonts too).
Added 2 plugins: a plugin to show related posts with a thumbnail: IGIT Related Post With Thumb and a plugin that adds default thumbnails to categories: FPW Category Thumbnails. They seem to work well, I only have to fix the theme I am using (Sight 1.0 by WPSHOWER) to display the images I use.
Found gmetrix . This website can test the speed of youe site and gives you tips on how to speed up your site. Looks like it is worthwhile to use and especially test themes with it. They have a special page for wordpress optimization See if you kan turn on KeepAlive on the server itself…. Read more »
Looked at and tested a few plugins, this time it was connections, this allows you to create a database of users, companies etc and create pages with shortcodes to display the list in various ways. Good to know, works well except that the css/styling might not play nice with your current theme.
Have been playing around with the Facebook Fanpage connect Pluging (More). Not quite sure if I understand it all and if it is working correctly yet. Hmm.. not appearing on fan page as promised? At the moment I cannot get it to connect properly, the setup, promised as being simple, requires you to create an… Read more »
I tried a simple taxonomy for my photographs site, I can now add Location and People tags, works quite well, I am afraid it will take a long time to add all those tags to my pictures. Oh yes, the plugin used is the simple taxonomy by yoast.
When you are using WordPress as a site with data that you don’t want everybody to see you might want to avoid public access to the site. Plugins to the rescue: Askapache Password protect: I could not configure it so not tested. Password Protect Plugin for WordPress : “This plugin will force all visitors to… Read more »
I discovered that there was a plugin for the stuff I wanted: PhotoQ. Together with the right theme I am pleased, if only if would be able to auto-rotate and prevent images ending up twice in the database. The theme is not 100%, I had to modify parts and it is not build completely to… Read more »
My collection of photographs from my digital camera’s is getting quite big. I have tried flickr Gallery and a few other things but they just did not do100% of what I wanted. I think I can do this with WordPress by doing the following: The right theme: Tanzaku maybe. a plugin to add photographs: Read… Read more »