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Re-enabling RSS tag feeds with the Feedburner Plugin

Most of us WordPress users who are using Feedburner to track our feed subscriptions are using the Feedburner Feedsmith WordPress plugin to make it all work. Unfortuantely that plugin remove the ability for folks to subscribe to RSS tag feeds directly from your blog. In this article, the author explain how to re-enable this feature. [...]

Python and Django

Python and Django look interesting in how they empower you to work with the web. I was reading some interesting points about both here (the one interesting part about Python is that you might not need to know it in order to appreciate Django).

Simple Yearly Archive

Simple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple WordPress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list. It works mostly like the usual WP archive, but displays all published posts seperated by their year of publication. That said, it’s also possible to restrict the output to certain categories, and much [...]

Ext JS

“Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications.” In particular, it allows you to build desktop-like applications that run in a web browser. Considering the speed of CPUs and Internet connections today, this could be pretty interesting.

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

Here is a good article relevant to anyone publishing anything on the web today. (via Chris)

WordPress Upgrader works flawlessly

I tried it for the first time and it works flawlessly.

WordPress 2.7 is out

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 [...]

A few good WordPress links

Ben has some good links on WordPress resources here

Managing tags in WordPress

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 = [...]

wp-syntax-rettke

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 [...]