I am happy to announce the release of the WordPress plugin “Page-Theme” v1.3. This version is a full rewrite. Its features are: Define themes on a per-page basis Define themes on a per-post basis (new) Support for SEO-friendly permalinks Support for basic permalinks (new) Full integration with posts and pages screens in the admin control panel (new) There should also [...]

Until now, this freebie has been known only to my Twitter followers, but considering the positive feedback it received, I am going to put it out there for everybody: a few months ago, being disappointed with the lack of true rich-text editing provided by typical blog editing tools, I started work on mine. It’s still a very unambitious thing but [...]

I was quite surprised, when looking for a way to assign different themes to some pages, to not manage to find an easy way to do that. It is not baked into WordPress, and I could not find a suitable plugin either. I had, a while ago, created a tiny plugin that did just that for me but it was [...]

This is not a real article per se. It is more intended to be a conversation because Twitter would make this a tad difficult, with its 140 characters limit. Two notes on moving to multisites: 1. WordPress 3.0 final has not been released yet; I have no idea whether a safe upgrade can be guaranteed after enabling multisites 2. Multisites [...]

That’s something I had to do myself recently. It was not quite as painful as I feared it to be. My aging WordPress install had certainly gone through its share of hacking: I started with a 1.x version, added multi-blog plugins, uninstalled them, moved to WordPress MU, then back to single-blog WordPress. In the process I wrote scripts to rename [...]

Google Analytics. I’m sure you’re already familiar with it. If not, just know that it’s a free service that gives you a pretty accurate idea of why people visit your blog, whether they, in fact, visit it at all, and what kind of demographics they represent. Unless you already use a better, but not free, analytics service, you really have [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, gather ’round! The Great Panini is going to perform an incredible illusion before your very eyes! You will tell your grandchildren of this day and they will not believe you! Take pictures! The Great Panini will start with a pre-steam machines era CentOS 4 server. He will install two versions of Ruby and they will coexist peacefully! [...]

Here comes S2ajax v1.0! And it was long overdue. Six months already since I posted S2ajax says “hi()” I can hardly believe it. What I think of as v1.0′s main feature is that it is now possible to simply export classes in PHP and these classes can be instantiated in JavaScript. Whenever these instances are modified through asynchronous method calls, [...]

If, like me, your company’s insistence on using Sharepoint as an Intranet tool contributes to rapid neurons death, there is as least a glimmer of hope: you can still use Firefox without being punished by having to type raw HTML code when editing a page (Sharepoint, unsurprisingly, only likes IE) Simple steps to use your own rich-text editor: Install Xinha [...]

This is a cross-posting with the nextBBS support board. Some of you already know about this but keep reading… Development of nextBBS v2 was steered in a new direction about two months ago and this is for the better. “n2″ is the software’s new code name. And the change is more than skin-deep because it is actually the result of the [...]