quicklinks: wordpress gadget
A quick link to this gadget for MS Vista which puts links to your Wordpress admin elements straight into your gadget area. I’m not exactly in love with Vista at the moment, it keeps setting IE as my default browser. That said, gadgets are one of the nice things. This will probably save me 2 [...]
quicktips: Hack WordPress to handle mixed Arabic / English posting
Posting in a multi-lingual blog is hard enough if you are swapping between French and English, but swapping from Arabic to English also involves swapping the order in which the characters appear on screen.
This post gives a neat solution to this problem which can probably be hacked to handle a number of other cases where [...]
tips speedlink: WordPress Optimisation
A nice article on WordPress optimisation focussing on the early days, just after you set up your installation (some of the topics apply to hosted options too) by Scott at meridiancrest.
The mybloglog advice is the only part of this that I would apply a health warning to. Unless you really want a random [...]
Twittering follow-up
Following the twitter sidebar post a few days ago I’ve been pointed at a host of Wordpress specific info and general Twitter tools which I thought may be of interest. Logic being that if you add your twitter bar to your site it had better say something useful, so you probably need tools to help [...]
Wordpress plugin template
The best way to learn is often to simply take a starting point and play. For me it’s always a finished item I respect, which I pull to pieces, replace the pieces, and then build up again. But for many a bare template is the prefered starting point.
Despite having a ’so hideous it’s somehow cool’ [...]
