Month: February 2009
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Tweet This with WordPress
Twitter seems to continue to gain in popularity and one or the other has even completely move – not a blog anymore, only an address in Twitter. After going through my subscriptions in my feed reader, I noticed several articles where one or the other Plugin was recommended, which place a Twitter button to recommend…
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rel=”canonical”-URL for WordPress Theme
Duplicate content is always an issue in search engines, especially in the context of content management systems and blogging applications. Therefore, they decided together (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) for a notice using the link tag. In essence, provides the tag with the rel attribute canonical only a reference to the preferred URL. Once again a…
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Secure Your Mail With WordPress Antispambot Function
A little-known feature in WordPress is antispambot() from the wp-includes/formatting.php. It is a kind obfuscator of the email address. It doesn’t create a clickable mailto link. Our e-mail with antispambot in the source code looks like this:
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WordCamp in Germany and WordCamp in Dallas – What’s different?
Last weekend I had the pleasure to be at the WordCamp Germany in Jena. It was great to meet many people there for the first time, even my team mates Frank and Micha. We never met in person before. So that was exciting but also other online friends and people I work with, like Sergej,…
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Plugin Review: Codestyling Localization
Heiko Rabe, a very talented Plugin-Developer created a plugin, which comes just in time: Codestyling Localisation. Since I am currently developing a premium WordPress theme, which I like to have multilingual, this plugin is an excellent alternative to PoEdit. Compare to PoEdit this Plugin has the decisive advantage that you can translate a theme or…
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WordPress 2.8 body_class, automatic_feed_links
Template Tag body_class The coming WordPress 2.8 provides a new Template Tag, body_class. This function gives the body element different classes, which gives you the possibility to use it effectively with CSS.