Here is one way to get your site post information posted on facebook wall.

• Add your application to Facebook: developers - button to "Set Up New Application", and fill out all required fields - just try to save it, then add those fields it wants you to add. Note that you can change that information later. Remember you application ID, key and Secret.

• Download php library from facebook: facebook-platform, upload it somewhere on your server. Read the rest of this entry »

While moving Darkmatter journal from WP-Footnotes plugin to YAFootnotes plugin (custom tweaked, moved because YAFootnotes was easier for writers/reviewers) we bumped into a problem: a lot of older posts used the old syntax. We had three choices:

• Leave WP-Footnotes plugin for older posts (different look and feel, one more plugin using up resources)
• Change posts by hand (lots of posts)
• Create a script to update all older posts who used old syntax.

I choose to create a script. After it was done I saw that it could be made into Wordpress plugin with minimal work, so: download WP-Footnotes to YAFootnotes

Update:

It's available at Wordpress plugin repository too: WP-Footnotes to YAFootnotes.

Numerous sites use plugins to expand functionality offered by Wordpress.  A lot of good plugins emerge and fight for a place under the sun. For various reasons I have worked with a lot of plugins and would like to make a public list of plugins I have found to fit my needs.

Ajax Plugin Helper

Very good if one uses a lot of plugins as greatly reduces the time needed to spend updating other plugins.

Wordpress, version 2.9 introduced batch updating plugins thus diminishing this plugins usefulness, but still - it's a good plugin.

Akismet

Comes along with your default Wordrpress installation, to enable one must get a key (free and easy to add). Reduces spam comments, standard plugin to fill this need for hundreds of thousands Wordpress users. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes in your theme unneeded meta tags show up. They look like

<meta content="noindex,follow" name="robots"/>

or something like this.
I have seen three reasons for this:

• Plugin settings. In this case check your plugins, uncheck what's needed. Main plugin candidates: All in One SEO Pack, other seo plugins.

• Blog Privacy atributes. In this case go to Settings -> Privacy and check

I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers

• Hard coded values in theme files.  In this case go to Appearance -> Editor and delete such meta tags from theme files.