Archive for the ‘Wordpress’ Category

How to fight spammers harvesting your email

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

One of the bane of every computer user is finding out that your email has somehow been captured by spammers and now your mailbox is a spam magnet. If you run a website or a blog, the first thing you want to do is to prevent spammers from harvesting any ...

How to remove “Blog Archive” from your Wordpress post title

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

The Title section in Header.php contains the codes which displays your Wordpress title. This is important because search engine listings will display your post title followed by a description of your post. I began to notice that all of my listings had the words Blog Archive in them which was ...

How to add thumbnails using FCKeditor in Wordpress

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I use the excellent Dean's FCKEditor for Wordpress plugin to replace the default Wordpress text editor which is really crummy. However, one of the drawbacks of the FCKEditor is its image manager which does not automatically create image thumbnails when you upload pictures. The developers of FCKEditor has already decided ...

How to change or rename Wordpress post permalink

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

The permalink to each Wordpress post is based on the title of the post. So if you used a bad title like 'Test post number 1", your permalink will be something like "http://www.domain.com/2007/10/03/test-post-number-1/" But then when you change the post title to the actual title, your permalink still stays the same. ...

How to embed GodTube videos into Wordpress

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

At the moment, Wordpress does not allow GodTube videos to be embedded directly into Wordpress blogs. Wordpress strips away part of the embed code and makes the video unplayable. Fortunately, there is a solution! Vodpod.com has a special 'Post To Wordpress' button that allows you to post GodTube videos directly ...