Chris Aldrich reads a lot of good books. I enjoy hearing about what he has read lately and thought that it would be nice to share his thoughts so I offered that he could post here if he was interested (or until he blogged elsewhere or whatever). He said yes. His user-name is caldrich.
I tried it for the first time and it works flawlessly.
WordPress 2.7 is out. While there are a lot of great new features, there are two that piqued my interest: Comment Threading WordPress Upgrader Comment threading is just that, comment threading. This is a useful feature that has always been provided by a plugin. WordPress Upgrader “will give you the option of downloading, installing, and [...]
Ben has some good links on WordPress resources here
WordPress lets you associate tags with your posts. Version 2.6 even provides a nice UI to manage them. If you are interested in working with them directly in the database, here is a query to help you along: SELECT term.term_id, tax.COUNT, term.name, term.slug FROM wp_term_taxonomy tax, wp_terms term WHERE tax.taxonomy = ‘post_tag’ AND tax.term_id = [...]
Out of the box, WP-Syntax colors code using the default GeSHi colors. Per the authors advice in the ‘Advanced Customization’ section of Other Notes, you can configure GeSHi yourself by handling the wp_syntax_init_geshi hook and configuring it programmatically. Since I wanted to do just that, I decided to publish a generic plugin, called wp-syntax-rettke, for [...]