WordPress Themes – Random Image Header
While working on a theme for WordPress lately.I ran across the problem of wanting a random header image on the top of the page, but how to do it? After looking around for a simple, fast script, I ran...
View ArticleRoundCube Fail2Ban Plugin
RoundCube Fail2Ban Plugin is a small plugin that will display a failed login attempts to your syslog or userlogins log file. Using this information Fail2Ban be able to block a user for a set amount of...
View Articlewp-Gallery2 Image Block post
The wp-Gallery2 Image Block plugin will allow you to put one of the many Gallery2 Image Blocks on your WordPress site. You are required to have a running Gallery2 install to use this plugin. This is a...
View ArticlePlaying with oEmbed
As some of you know, WordPress 2.9 will have oEmbed as one of it’s core features. With oEmbed, you are able to add any oEmbed link to a WordPress post by just adding the URL on it’s own line in your...
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Displaying one category on your WordPress main page
If you would like to only display a single category on your WordPress main page, here’s how you do it. You will need to start out by getting ID of the category you wish to display. In WordPress 2.7+,...
View ArticleAdding a native WordPress gallery
I have heard a lot of talk lately of people complaining that they are unable to have image gallery’s in WordPress 2.8= without adding a plugin. I assume this assumption comes from how hard it is to...
View Articlewp reCAPTCHA form version 0.1 released
I have released wp-reCAPTCHA version 0.1. This plugin will allows you to also add subjects to your contact form. Please check it out on it page at http://mattrude.com/projects/wp-recaptcha-form/. wp...
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WordPress 2.9 Post Thumbnail Function
WordPress 2.9 brings a new function for users of gallery’s the add_theme_support(‘post-thumbnails’) function. with this you will get a new item on your new post window named Post Thumbnail (see right)....
View ArticleNext Gallery Image Link in Image Posts
If you were to view one of the images in my WordPress gallery, such as my Minnesota State Fair – 2009 gallery, and view one of the images. You will see a previous and next image on the bottom of the...
View ArticleAdding a Twitter feed
Playing with adding a twitter feed directly into my theme. Adding a Twitter feed is a post from; Matt's Technology Blog which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.Adding a Twitter feed is a post...
View ArticleDisabling Plugin Stylesheet
You must have seen that WordPress plugins can slow your site down with additional HTTP Requests such as adding their own stylesheet. For advanced users, who are adding custom styles for the...
View ArticleWordPress Feedburner Plugin
This is a quick plugin that will allow your users to use the Feedburner service on your their WordPress site. Just place this file in your mu-plugins or plugins folder then checkout Settings ->...
View ArticleWordPress Favicon Plugin
One more quick plugin setup for multi site builds of WordPress. Just drop this in your mu-plugins folder. This plugin will first look for a local favicon, if there is none, it will go to Gravatar to...
View ArticleWordPress Sitemap Generator
This plugin will create a sitemap for your WordPress site (http://example.com/sitemap.xml). This was setup for a multisite install, but should work fine on a single install. First, create a file named...
View ArticleWordPress Auto Backup Script
A quick backup script for WordPress. If you pass a config file containing the block of variables, the script will auto run for your install of WordPress. # /bin/bash BKNAME= DIR= DBHOST= DBNAME=...
View ArticleBuilding a WordPress Cloud, Cluster Setup
This how-to will explain how to build a WordPress site on 2, 3, or more Rackspace cloud servers, with full load-balancing and redundancy. To accomplish this, you will setup multiple web-servers and one...
View ArticleConfiguring WordPress to use Memcached
When using WordPress self hosted software it’s generally a good idea to cache as much as possible. Object Caching allows you store parts of the pages in memory for quicker retrieval, since the server...
View ArticleAdmin Bar API changes for 3.3
Andrew Nacin wrote up a nice explanation on the changes to the WordPress Admin Bar API with the release of WordPress 3.3. Admin Bar API changes for 3.3 is a post from; Matt's Technology Blog which is...
View ArticleCustom WordPress Cron Intervals
Here’s how to have WordPress code execute on a different schedule than the default intervals of hourly, twicedaily, and daily. This specific example is for weekly execution. <?php // Add a new...
View ArticleCompressing PNG file for the web
When using images on the web, it’s impotent to use the smallest file you can for your needs. This doesn’t mean you should use a image that is smaller then the size you wish to display it at, but to...
View ArticleInstalling WordPress on Nginx
I, like most people, started out by using Apache and really didn’t see anything wrong with it. It’s relatively easy to setup, it’s used by most sites so support is a snap and a default and it’s...
View ArticleWordPress Correct File Permissions
To lock down the permissions on your WordPress install, from inside the WordPress site directory, run the below commands. chown -R root:root . chown -R nginx:nginx wp-content wp-admin/update.php...
View ArticleWordPress: Add footer text to feed posts
Here’s a small code snippet for adding text to the bottom of each post in your rss feed. This will not affect the post content shown on your site. The below should be added to your themes function.php...
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WordPress: Allow Auto Updating
When WordPress is properly locked down on your server, you are often unable to automatically update the plugins or themes on your site. The problems comes in when WordPress looks to see if it is able...
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