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Cleaning up WordPress database after UTW

After upgrading to WordPress 2.3 and trying to re-evaluate tag usage, I decided to re-visit an old pet-peeve of mine: The relatively massive (read: gi-normous) size of my wp_postmeta table. It was always the biggest table in my database (thanks

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Recent changes here at samdevol.com

I have been meaning to post a note about some of the recent changes here, but have been busier then a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs (been dying to use that phrase for some time ;’)…

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6 Simple Steps to Hardening WordPress

There are some basic steps you can take to help limit your exposure to malicious behavior directed at your WordPress install. My intention with this article is not to make your website bullet-proof (if such a thing exists) but to

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Text-Link-Ads tech support lacks interest in WordPress

This began as a casual note, a reminder, if you will, to techsupport (at) text-link-ads.com. It escalated to where I wondered just how Text-Link-Ads (a MediaWhiz Holdings, Inc. Company) developed it’s hiring practices… Having signed up I was directed to

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Display posts ticker-style in WordPress with Zazz

I was thinking about a way to showcase older posts and happened across the Zazz Post Tickerplugin by Stew Houston. I thought “Here we go, another chance for me to totally bork my blog with some unknown piece of code…”

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missunderstood theme — Big update

Just released the new version (0.94) of the missunderstood theme. Some major changes, lots of clean-up, added functionality: Built-in Optimal Title (for SEO) Built-in slimbox (faster, lighter Lightbox effect) Separate lists for comments and trackbacks Fancier blockquotes Built-in pullquotes Prettier

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Integrate PunBB into your WordPress site

The info in this post is pretty old but I’m leaving it here for reference, regardless… I wanted to add a forum to my WordPress blog but everything I came across did not integrate well (design/page continuity, etc.) or was

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Corporate Slave theme — Big update

Version .95 is out now, with a lot of tweaks done over several months… Incorporated some plugins into functions.php for convenience: Optimal Title Hot Dates removed ‘sociable’ Slimbox Added the Top Post functionality (for a full-width ‘featured’ post). Top Post

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www. Preference and samdevol.com

Since domains are often indexed differently (with and without the www prefix), I’m jumping on the no-www bandwagon. For more info visit Ease of use with WordPress influenced me to use Mark Jaquith’s Enforce www. Preference plugin (which works for

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About Me widget for WordPress – v1.0 (TinyMCE)

When I first started a WordPress blog I wanted to add some personal identification to the front page in an effort to promote validity/identity/what-evah. ‘Widgets’ were somewhat new to WP so I thought this was the approach for me. I

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