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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: New Hack: Lean and Mean Admin DashBoardWhy am I not surprised 🙂
Guess I am not the only person pained by DashBoard.Anyway I forgot to mention the download link is in the same page. Just an index.php file (zip compressed).
Enjoy!
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: accepting trackbacks to a category: possible?The functionality is not there in the current codebase.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: hack : category mappingThanks. Here’s my map http://blog.taragana.com/wp-content/category-map.php
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: New Plugin: DonkieQuoteGrace,
You can also try the Witty plugin which displays random quotes from a text file, editable from the plugin page. You just have to replace the sophomoric quotes with your own. No SQL no hassles. I use it for my site – http://blog.taragana.com.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Multi Blogger hackI think me means multi-blogs 🙂
Not many WordPress users use it collaboratively I think.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxiesMe three 🙂
This is just an implementation defect. I haven’t yet looked in the code, but will do soon.
It nuked over 100 comments from my users. However I recovered them from the database.
For now I have disabled that option. Otherwise blackhole works.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: spam karma doesnt work..The blackhole in WordPress 1.5 does work. However if you check “Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies.” then all your comments gets hosed. Another post here.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Wiki-like blog?AFAIK major search engines are fine nowadays with dynamic pages. In any case having an index.php in the url path doesn’t count as dynamic page. Having a question mark with a query string afterwards does as is in the default install. Even with the query string (dynamic url) mode I find that search engines these days are comfortable in indexing the pages and ranking them appropriately.
I have a post about using permalinks without mod_rewrite (with index.php embedded) on WordPress 1.5.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Question about pingingEach pinging services has their different limit. Also the pinging is done sequentially. So if you have a lot of services to ping then post submission time will increase.
The other thing you need to know about the automatic pinging services is that it doesn’t display any errors for failed pings. So it is like working in the dark and hope that the ping succeeded 🙂
If the services pinged by pingomatic are good enough for your needs then you might be better off to check the required pings in pingomatic and create a bookmark. After you are done with your batch update you can just click on your bookmark to ping all of them at once.
I used the same MySQL database as on Linux platform ( blog.taragana.com ). I never had a problem there.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Five plugins you can’t live withoutReposting with hyperlinks following Sr-ultimate’s advice.
Four I use since 1.5 are:
Search Hilite – Highlights search results for people coming after Google, yahoo queries. This one is from Matt. I couldn’t find a live link to it. You can look in http://photomatt.net/. I can also forward you the php file if you like.
Run PHP – Allows embedding php code in posts
Witty Text – Allows embedding random quote from a text file
Follow URL – Disables rel=nofollow tagging on all comments and comment author url’sI have disabled Staticize, AuthImage, Trackback Moderate, Pingback Moderate and lot of other plugins because either they do not work under wordpress 1.5 or mostly because they are not useful to me anymore.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: what does wp_meta do?wp_meta action hook is to insert anything in the meta section specifically.
I don’t think it is possible to state categorically whether any current plugin uses it as not all plugins are in a central repository, though efforts are being made in that direction.
However before installing any new plugin you can always grep to see if it uses wp_meta or not.
In any case this is not a big deal. If you don’t even have a meta section, don’t bother about this hook.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Suggestion: Please remove some meaningless plugins from default@vkaryl That’s true. I am space constrained but not that much 🙂
My reasons are different. WordPress is emerging as a very polished product with some good stuff in there. Compared to the rest these plugins look too trivial and meaningless. It may give a worng impression to any newcomer. For me it was interesting on activating HelloDolly to find quotes of inviting Dolly to the lap etc. I guess culture in those times were much different.NM> Something that is meaningless to you may not be meaningless to others.
Frankly that logic can be applied bi-directionally. The same logic can be used to include any plugins too 🙂 It doesn’t much serve the point.
Personally I would have removed it. Which brings to another point. There should be an easy way to uninstall any plugin. I have tried several plugins, now use only a few. Some of these plugins create their own directories etc.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: what does wp_meta do?Provides a wp_meta action hook for plugin developers.
I would suggest that you leave it there. You may in future use a plugin which needs this.