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Who is Stealing your Mojo? RSS Feed Scraping, Splogs and How to Fight them

If your site gets any traffic at all, chances are your RSS feed is scraped and misused by some one trying to score on SERP for the work you have toiled on. This very blog is constantly ripped by sploggers who have no regards to intellectual property rights or just plain simple dumb to realize [...]

// Tagged Awareness, Code, Contextual Ads, Design, Economics, Google, Google Adsense, HTML, Javascript, Malaysian, Media, RSS, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Spam, Splog, WP, Web, Web traffic, blog, blog traffic, hacks, how to, resources, tag, techniques, tips, wordpress, wordpress templates, xhtml // 05.06.2008 at 7:14 pm // 5 Comments »

Display Continuous List in Two Columns

Here’s a quick and easy way to present a continuous list in two or more columns without having to hard code it. A recent project required a list of authors across two columns; the author names and links were auto generated using a WP tag so listing them in 2 columns required some simple CSS [...]

// Tagged CSS, Code, Design, HTML, Web, Web Design, hacks, how to, resources, techniques, tips, xhtml // 05.05.2008 at 10:51 am // 2 Comments »

WordPress 2.5 Upgrade: WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now Message Appears after Upgrade Troubleshooting

When a client of mine upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 from WordPress 2.5 she encountered an issue where the database will not upgrading, resulting in the “WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now.” flashing in her dashboard and every other admin pages. On initial search of the WordPress support forum, we found the following strings that [...]

// Tagged Announcements, Awareness, Bug Fix, Code, Design, PHP, Security Fix, Spam, WP, Web, Web Hosting, blog, hacks, headsetoptions, how to, internet, news, resources, techniques, wordpress // 04.28.2008 at 10:27 am // 1 Comment »

SEO Tip Open Comment Author URL in new Window

For good SEO, it is preferential to open your comment authors URI in a new page. Why you might ask? Google and other search engines track sites you visit, they can tell what that site contains (obviously), how long you stayed there and where you went next. The intended use of this information is to [...]

// Tagged Akismet, Blogging Tips, Code, Conditional, Design, Google, HTML, Javascript, PHP, Pop-up, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Spam, WP, Web Design, Yahoo, blog, hacks, how to, resources, site validation, tag, techniques, tips, wordpress, xhtml // 04.26.2008 at 8:52 pm // 3 Comments »

Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Part 3.2 “Conditional Navigation Menus”

As the tutorials run longer than we prefer, we have broken section 3 into 3 sub-sections, you can find sub-section 1 regarding second level menu here.
The navigational aspect of a site, especially one that is database driven, should have menus that are dynamically generated just like the rest of its content, but is seldom the [...]

// Tagged CSS, Code, Conditional, Design, HTML, Magazine Style WordPress Themes, PHP, Theme, WP, Web Design, hacks, how to, resources, tag, techniques, tips, web 2.0, wordpress, wordpress themes // 04.19.2008 at 11:07 am // 1 Comment »

Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Part 2: DOMTab, Tabber, more

In continuing our efforts of slicing and dicing a Magazine style WordPress theme, we come to a very interesting juncture with Java interfaces. This probable is the most ubiquitous feature of most all magazine themes. If you think about it, it makes sense that magazine style themes use this non-obtrusive code to help manage content.
These [...]

// Tagged Advanced WordPress Theme, CSS, Code, Design, HTML, Magazine Style WordPress Themes, Projects, Theme, Tutorials, WP, Web Design, Widget, best wordpress themes, blog, hacks, how to, premium templates, resources, tips, wordpress themes, xhtml // 01.19.2008 at 2:43 pm // 19 Comments »

Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Part 1 “The Loop”

Let me say it for the millionth time “content is king” and we all know that, don’t we?
Since content is the most important part of a site, your WordPress powered theme must emphasis on its presentation. Most cookie cutter themes come with a post list that runs based on the time your posts were published, [...]

// Tagged Advanced WordPress Theme, CSS, Code, Design, HTML, Javascript, Magazine Style WordPress Themes, Matt Mullenweg, Redux, Tutorials, WP, Web Design, Weblogtoolscollection, asides, hacks, how to, meta tags, premium templates, resources, tag, techniques, tips, toolbox, wordpress themes, xhtml // 01.11.2008 at 1:31 pm // 11 Comments »

Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Prelude

Let’s face it, WordPress is not just a BMS like some might want you to believe, if used right, the full potential of the worlds best CMS can power sites big and small alike. One recent trend among high content high traffic sites is the switch to magazine styled or premium themes to aid in [...]

// Tagged Advanced WordPress Theme, Announcements, CSS, Code, Design, HTML, Javascript, Magazine Style WordPress Themes, PHP, Theme, WP, Web Design, Widget, hacks, how to, techniques, tips, websites, wordpress, wordpress templates, wordpress themes // 01.04.2008 at 9:54 pm // 9 Comments »

The First Year of IE7 Gone Bad

The IE7 development team thought it would make for good PR to pat themselves on the back. Turns out the readers are mostly frustrated users/designers trying to “fix” their otherwise (CSS) standards based work by means of IE hacks. Just skip the content of the blog and dive straight into the comments; that’s the fun [...]

// Tagged IE, Microsoft, Oddities, Stupid, Un, Windows, Windows Vista, asides, blog, funny, hacks, internet, socio-political // 12.11.2007 at 5:21 pm // Have your say »

Weekend Reboot - New Design Based on Gluttony by Small Potato

If you are a frequent visitor, you will notice that the site was rebooted over the weekend using a fabulous design by WP Designer.
For the sake of comparison, I have included an image (linked to demo) of the original theme Gluttony along with a screenshot of the current version.

Of course the design is more than [...]

// Tagged Announcements, CSS, Code, Design, Grid, Reboot, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Theme, WP, blog, hacks, mandarinmusing, news, resources, site validation, style, wordpress, wordpress themes, wpSnap // 12.09.2007 at 12:12 pm // 10 Comments »