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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 [...]

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 upgrading to the latest [...]

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 = term.term_id
ORDER BY
term.name ASC
LIMIT
0, 200

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 folks [...]