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After visiting several WP sites with photos from Flickr on the side-bar, I wanted to have photos from my Gallery in the side-bar. Yesterday I found “Gallery-RSS” , a cool plugin for WP from Jon.
This plugin makes use of MagpisRSS, But I couldn’t find a way to read attributes of elements using MagpieRSS,
I [...]
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Once again my blog is flooded with comment spam. I installed “Kitten’s Spam Words” and “ThreeStrikesSPAM” to counter the first attack. Those plugins are good enough for a month. Two days back, new wave of spam started. After examining several authimage plugins I chose Trencaspammers, because it is simple [...]
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I was experimenting with WP looks for last 2 to 3 days. I think I have come up with a decent design. Shamelessly copied lot of stuff from “kubrick” theme.
Refs:
Anatomy of a WordPress Theme
Just gave it a shot. Today I upgraded my blog to WordPress 1.3. Rearranged few things, like made Backup/Restore as subsection of “Manage” section and modified backupRestore.php a little bit. Good no problems so far.
I didn’t find a step by step guide(for newbies and that works) to setup the “BlogTimes” plugin for WordPress. Here you go:
Download BlogTimes plugin
Unzip wp-blogtimes.zip
Upload blogtimes.php into your wp-content/plugins folder
Setup write permissions for wp-images and blogtimes.png, like:
// assuming webserver is in group (www-data on DEB)
chmod 775 wp-images
chmod 775 blogtimes.png
Add the [...]
