Handling Wordpress configuration when you're pointing to symlinked files. This flummoxed me for a bit. Solved!

This all looks really sane: proper, package-managed Wordpress deployment. Except: it relies a lot on slightly unofficial packages, which makes me nervous. Hmn. Filed away for reference.

"The template used for a custom post view is decided by the ‘get_single_template()’ function in the wp-includes/theme.php file.  And it basically tells locate_template() to look for single-’post_type’.php or single.php. So the simplest way to customise the way a custom post is displayed is to add a template file to your theme with the name single-xxxxxx.php" Oh. That makes life simpler.

Quick tutorial in add_meta_box - the way to add custom fields to Wordpress forms.

More clever stuff with dedicated post types in WP3; notably, adding custom fields to custom post-type forms.

"Why would we want to play around with custom fields, or add stupid meta boxes in the Edit Posts page and then teach our clients and/or content managers to use them? Why not just get rid of all those stuff and have them seperately in your main menu, and the meta boxes are customized to match the exact needs of certain post types." Which is exactly how I use Wordpress in commercial installations, and every time I hack around this, I long for proper Top Level Things. This is a great feature, and it's going to make my life considerably easier. Let's hope they don't screw up the 3.0 release.

Some nice tips in here, mainly about blocking access to things and security.

Jolly good - easy to configure and get going, nice templating, and fast, because it's based on a databased index. Also, it looks like it's very actively maintained. Now added to this blog!

"The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. The theme was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme." Looks great.

"This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog"

Very nice - reminds me a lot of the work I've done building CMS-style sites with Wordpress. It's not hard - just requires some thought and trickery. Great that this is free, anyhow.

"Recently I took a look at the numerous WordPress blogs I maintain and decided to extract some of the best plugins I use across them." - for once, a decent list, with some stuff I should look into on it.

Nice tutorial on creating options pages for your Wordpress plugins.

Wordpress, by default, only lets you search "posts". If you want to search both blogposts and static content, then this plugin is what you need. I'm very surprised this isn't an option out of the box.

"Organizer is a Wordrpress plugin. This plugin help the wordpress users to manage the files uploaded to their blog." Nice and simple, nicely done.

Really comprehensive Wordpress plugin for handling not just contact forms, but data-tracking forms of any kind. Customisable, reasonably nice output, and a good database admin that lets you spit out CSV. Recommended.

"The Language Switcher WordPress plugin allows you to create a bilingual or multi-lingual blog, using WordPress." Feels a little fudgy to me, but it definitely works.

A useful plugin for Wordpress - prior to 2.2, data was stored as latin1. Now it's UTF-8. If you've got a lot to convert, this seemed to do the trick.

A detailed explanation of the Wordpress 2.3 implementation of resolving to a single canonical URL.

A new version of the popular admin reskin for Wordpress.

Greasmonkey script that "reskins the Akismet spambox page for WordPress admins". Might make things a bit better, I guess...

"Clutter Free is a plugin that lets you hide portions of the WordPress posting interface that you rarely (or never) use."

Plugin for Wordpress to embed slideshows of your Flickr sets.

Wordpress.com add support for LaTeX into their posts - translates code into inline images with appropriate alt text. Impressive, for the mathematically/scientifically minded at least.

One of the better looking Wordpress plugins for dumping out Audioscrobbler data.

Wordpress 2.1 is now out. Probably better check this out, then...

I want to write more on this in the future, but essentially: what a load of rot and hyperbole.

Make Wordpress posts sticky. Useful for pretending it's a CMS

Implementation instructions for Wordpress. Usefully generic, for once.

Fairly succinct explanation of the new-style url rewriting in Wordpress 2.0

As used by BSAG at www.rousette.org.uk . Quite interested in trying this out

Very graceful weblog by Chris J Davis.

note to self - I like this comments layout.

One example of a Wordpress del.icio.us script

Post teasers for wordpress

wordpress login-php problems. erk