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New ImageShack Uploader Plugin for WordPress
In the last time, I’ve seen many Google searches about WordPress and ImageShack in my referer logs. Too bad there wasn’t something on this page about that.
Since I had some time today and found this an interesting combination, I’ve created a small WordPress plugin which allows you to upload image files to ImageShack directly [...]...

Fixing Jerome’s Keywords and WordPress 2.1
I'm using the Jerome's Keywords tagging plugin on this site and noticed that all keywords (tags) for a post will go away if I approve its comments. After some search through the code I've found that the plugin is using the "edit_post" hook to update the keywords after you've changed them on the post screen. [...]...

4+1 Ways To Speed Up WordPress With Caching
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If you are suddenly receiving a lot of request within a short period of time because you've been linked by a large site like Digg or Slashdot, your hosting solution might not be able to handle the load.
This article should help your to prepare your WordPress blog for such a case or [...]...

YAHOO and MSN join the Google Sitemaps program
YAHOO and MSN Search have announced that they will support the popular format for XML-Sitemaps which was invented by Google in 2005.

In an encouraging act of collaboration, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced tonight that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org, the system [...]...

WordPress 2.0.4 is out
Get it while it's hot!
This release contains several security fixes and performance issues so all WordPress users are recommended to upgrade.
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How to create links to social bookmark services
Social bookmark services are a good way to promote your website or blog. You can increase the number of bookmarks to your site with providing your visitors links which allow them to directly bookmark your site on their favourite bookmark service.
Below you can find a list of the most used ones, simply replace "[URL]" with [...]...

Firefox truncates content of Wordpress posts
If you use Firefox to edit a post, it may happen in some cases, especially on long posts and when switching between tabs, that the text gets truncated to an unspecified length. If you save this post, the cut content is lost forever.

Check your post before you save it
This behavior happens from time to time, [...]...

Germany is out of the WorldCup
I hope for France that they will win the WorldCup, because Zidane (DE) played a really good tournament and is generally one of the coolest players. New target for Germany: Third place. Third place is even better than losing the final, because you are the last one who parties

Update: Yeha, France made it to [...]...

A9 SiteInfo Generator Plugin For WordPress
Latest release:
1.2
2006-06-21

I'm happy to present you another Plugin for your WordPress Blog: The A9 SiteInfo Generator.
SiteInfo is an open standard which allows you to specify information that will be displayed in a toolbar menu. This allows the A9 toolbar (or other toolbars that want to use SiteInfo) to display a menu about your site, when [...]...

Interesting Google Statistics about .Net Searches
First places are not really surprising, but tenth place for USA after Denmark?

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