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For the last couple of years, I've used the Tag Suggest Thing WordPress plugin to recommend tags for my posts based on the post content. Beginning with WordPress 2.5, that plugin started to have problems interacting with the WordPress administration pages. In August 2009, Yahoo! announced that they would …
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In his excellent series on WordPress Theme SEO, Nathan Rice describes a method to include META tags in WordPress themes rather than relying on plugins. Since I recently updated the Slaptijack theme to include META descriptions and keywords, I thought I would detail the process. If you are interested in …
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ProBlogger Darren Rowse recently posted a question about putting dates on blog posts. A lot of folks were interested in the idea of removing dates from older blog posts, but don't know where to start. This is a useful PHP excercise, so I decided to implement it on my personal …
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Due to security vulnerabilities in WordPress 2.2, Slaptijack has been upgraded to WordPress 2.2.1. As always, if you notice anything amiss with the site, please let me know.
The upgrade fixed the following security vulnerabilities:
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I've recently begun designing my own WordPress theme. The last time I really worked with any sort of web "design" (I'm using that word rather loosely here), layout was done via tables instead of divs. Stephen at Acadian Imaging told me that in order to get my theme to work …
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The SlaptiGooglePR Plugin for WordPress adds a Google PageRank column to your Manage Posts subpanel. Unlike other Google PageRank plugins which add a PageRank badge to every post, this plugin gives the blog administrator a snapshot of how every post is ranked without announcing it to the world. Additionally, it …
