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Wordpress Sticky

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:55:29 +0000

This is another one of my favourite Wordpress Plugins. I came up with the idea a while ago, that I might like certain posts to stay on the front page of my blog, until such time as I decided that I didn’t want them there. This obviously enables you to do some good keyword/key phrase optimisation if you wish, instead of relying on each post to contain the keywords you are targeting.

Installation is a simple matter of uploading to your plugins directory, as with all others, followed by the normal activation.

Once installed you have a couple of options to play around with, but nothing very complicated or exciting, it just works.

From now on, when writing a post you have an additional option down at the bottom of the page, enabling you to set the post as a sticky. This means it will remain on the front page of your blog, at the top of the list, with other future posts, appearing below it.

Simple and effective, just like all good plugins should be!!

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Wordpress Automatic Upgrade

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:25:27 +0000

Without doubt, this is the most time saving plugin I have ever used. As someone who looks after around 60 Wordpress blogs, keeping them up-to-date is an almost impossible task. I have blogs from Wordpress 2.1 right up to the current latest release, and this plugin as a huge time saver.

Simply upload the plugin as normal to the plugins directory, activate, and then go to “Manage”. There you will seem some very simple “Click Here” type instructions to guide you through the upgrade.

The plugin creates a backup of the database, and site files as you go through the steps, and you are given the opportunity to download these if you want to (I would recommend that you do, although I normally don’t).

The plugin de-activates all the plugins for you, and downloads the latest version of Wordpress from Wordpress.org. You will at one point be logged out so that the database can be upgraded, and you will need to log back in once this has been done.

The only problem I have ever had with this plugin, is that for some reason, it never re-activates the plugins that were active before the upgrade. This isn’t a show stopper, but is a bit annoying, especially if you have quite a few, some of which you don’t use. My advice is to take a screen grab, or write down, which ones are active before running the upgrade.

Overall this Wordpress plugin is a huge time saver, and is highly recommended.

Download Wordpress Automatic Updater (98.99 KB)

Older version of wp. Time worp to version 2.1.2

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:04:30 +0000

It is no fun at all having to go back to an older version of wordpress when you have gotten used to all the new goodies that the last few versions of wordpress offer its thankful user community.

We are forced to use version 2.1.2 for a clients site because of hosting issues that are beyond our durisdiction. I hate it! Stuff that I have gotten so used to with all the pluggins become jobs that require hard coding. Many pluggins that used to run on 2.1.2 have been updated to run on the latest versions, but the pluggin coders have not left a downloadalble version of 2.1.2 compatible wp!

Now that is frustrating.

Wow, its been a year already!

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:19:31 +0000

Well, it appears I must have been pretty busy (or really poorly organised!). It has been a year and I have yet to start on this site.

Well, I think that is going to start changing shortly. I have recieved multiple emails expressing an interesting in the domain name. I guess it helps that this site has been live for a year, thought admitedly without any real content. I have beening working quite a lot with wordpress sites again recently and that has helped me to get my focus back on this site and what I hoped to do with it almost a year ago!