Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’

How to Disable WordPress Revisions (No Plugin)

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

I am using WordPress 2.7. WordPress has an annoying function: revisions. If you use WordPress 2.6 or above, there may be lots of unuseful revisions in your database. Normally, a post have 5 or more revisions. They make the database larger and larger. Since there are lots of rubbish, the efficiency may become very slow. (more…)

Trying reCAPTCHA Plugin

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

It is very strange that my post Function Overloading in PHP 5 brought many spam comments. I enabled Akismet plugin that has caught about 150 spam comments. However, somtimes Akismet can’t prevent all the spam comments and it just doesn’t allow the spam comments to show, the spams are still stored in the database.

Several days ago I read this article in Google Webmaster Central Blog. It shows some method to avoid comment spam. The first thing is using a captcha. Also, it gives a free script which is called “reCAPTCHA“. For WordPress users, reCAPTCHA provides a plugin, so that it is very easy to integrate with WordPress.

I don’t think the captcha code is a good solution to comment spam. It will make difficult to visitors who want to leave some meaningful comments. However, the comment spam is so serious, I have to do so.

Using Math Formula in WordPress

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Sometimes a formula is much better than a lot of words. Since I used LaTeX before, I hope to find an easy way to insert fomula in WordPress. So I made this WordPress plugin: LaTeX Math. (more…)

WordPress is Not Suitable for Newbies

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

There is no doubt that WordPress is one of the most powerful blogging tools. It supports many themes and plugins which can make your weblog look like different. However, it is difficult to find a very suitable theme or plugin for you. (more…)

Notes about WordPress Filters

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Filters, as its name, is used for modifying data in WordPress. WordPress provides many filter interfaces. You can write some functions to ‘hook’ into one of them. Yes, that’s is a WordPress plugin. For example, if you want to append some text to each post, you can write a plugin file as below: (more…)

Install FireStats for WordPress

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

FireStats is a powerful web statistics software. It can show much information about your visitors and search engine bots. Usually, installing FireStats for WordPress is very easy, just upload its directory to wp-contentplugins and then enable it in the administration panel of WordPress. However, it is not easy to install on Lunarpages shared host. Unfortunately, this site is hosted by Lunarpages. (more…)

3 WordPress Plugins for Highlighting Your Code

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Since I love programming, I hope I can publish my code in WordPress. Code is different from normal text. The most important for me is highlighting, and the second is that the characters ‘<’, ‘>’ can be transformed into ‘&lt;’ and ‘&gt;’ so that they won’t be treated as HTML tags. I searched the Internet and found some plugins to help me publish my code. Here is a list and the usage for each plugin. (more…)