WordPress Vibe

Real-time RSS Updates via PubSubHubbub

Jonathan Dingman — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:44:05 +0000

The latest blog innovation is how RSS interacts with subscribers. This round of innovation is push instead of pull. The way RSS has worked is that the RSS client will pull the website each time, asking if there were any updates. PubSubHubbub changes that. Instead of asking, it’s now told. This video

How to Exclude Pages from Search Results

Jonathan Dingman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:24:53 +0000

WordPress by default will include pages in the search results. More often than not, you will want users to only be able to see posts in the search results, not pages. To change this default behavior, it’s actually quite easy. Include the following lines of code in your functions.php file. function vibeExcludePages($query) {

WordPress & PostgreSQL

Jonathan Dingman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:27:03 +0000

Ever wanted to use WordPress with a PostgreSQL database? Now you can! A user with the alias of “steinmicforma” has created a project on Sourceforge that utilizes a PostgreSQL database instead of MySQL. The WordPress Codex has limited documentation on how to do this, so someone took it upon themself to create a project

WordPress 2.9 Upgrade Failure

Growth of WordPress.com in 2009

Jonathan Dingman — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:37:13 +0000

2009 was the year for WordPress.com. It’s nothing new to hear about the tremendous popularity of WordPress.com, but the proof is in the pudding! There was a significant higher number of blogs created in 2009, more importantly was the expanding adoption rate. Who said blogs are dying? One of the WordPress.com staff members was nice enough to

WordPress.com Goes Down, TechCrunch.com Goes With It

Jonathan Dingman — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:51:09 +0000

WordPress.com isn’t perfect, mortal just like any other network. Today, there has been a flurry of people talking about wordpress.com being down, and for a fact, it is down right now. This has been confirmed by WordPress.com staff: UPDATE at 2:55pm PST: I will update this story as news progress. UPDATE at 3:16pm PST: There’s some visible on the

WordPress Plugin Development, What Not to Do

Jonathan Dingman — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:37:56 +0000

Mark Jaquith, a core developer for WordPress, published a non-exhaustive list of what “not to do” for plugin development. We enjoy great plugins as much as the rest of the WP community. This guide by Mark will help ease a lot of pain for a lot of people. Here’s the list.Give it a license

WordPress.com Sitemap Ping Feature Gets You Quick Search Updates

Dre Armeda — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:29:00 +0000

WordPress.com will not to be left behind in the search engine update game. As of last week, WordPress.com blogs have a great new feature to keep those engines up to date. The new functionality sends an instant ping to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask to ensure they know you’ve added or removed a page or

WordPress 2.2 for the iPhone

Jonathan Dingman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:31:47 +0000

Raanan recently announced the release of the iPhone app, WordPress 2.2. This not a major release, but a minor release. It does add some much wanted functionality though. Notable, these are the major feature upgrades:Reply to Comments Edit Comments Highlighting the new items in the comment listClick here to download the upgrade: WordPress 2.2 –

TechCrunch Moves to WordPress VIP Hosting

Jonathan Dingman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:56:17 +0000

The most recent site to be accepted into WordPress VIP hosting is TechCrunch. This is a huge tech source that gets millions of uniques per month, so this is a huge win for the WordPress.com VIP hosting team.I checked with one of my sources on the WordPress VIP team and they confirmed that it

Top 5 WordPress SEO Plugins

Jonathan Dingman — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:42:49 +0000

In today’s post, I want to go over some WordPress SEO plugins. These plugins are important to me because they help give my sites stronger SEO and become overall, more impactful in the search engines. Here are just some of my favorite WordPress SEO plugins that I use on a regular basis. SEO Smart Links This plugin

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