Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics is a WordPress plugin that lets you know (even display to your visitors) statistics about the traffic of your site. The plugin is able to track the number of visitors, browsers, operating systems, number of visits and more. To use the plugin you don’t need to be an expert. Just […]
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Search Regex is one of the most useful WordPress plugins, but unfortunately its development stopped. I’ve searched and searched for an alternative, but everything I tried is inferior. Now Search Regex gives this “Uncaught Error”, making WordPress send you eMail messages to terrify you that perhaps your site is destroyed! The error regards the 26th […]
Blogroll Dropdown Links is a free plugin for WordPress that will let you publish your blogroll in a dropdown box using a widget, this way saving space in your widget area, which can be very convenient especially if you have a lot of links in your blogroll. Note that the Link section is by default […]
If you miss a Links section in your WordPress blog, first of all you should know that there isn’t any problem with your installation or theme: WordPress just removed this section, keeping it only for users that happened to actually have a blogroll. If you’ve never had a blogroll, then newer WordPress versions just ignored […]
Why would you like to disable such a useful feature, as auto save? 1) Because it interrupts your work, 2) Because you have reasons to believe you are not in danger of losing your post, 3) Because you seldom preview your posts before publishing, 4) Because the developers of WordPress did not have the common […]
If you need to test web site applications such as WordPress blogs, you can try XAMPP for Windows. It is an easy way to install Apache, MySQL and PHP and use them even without terminating the native Windows Internet Information Services. PHP/Apache and ASP/IIS web sites can run in the same time on a Windows machine. The […]
One of the most convenient functions of WordPress is that you don’t need much trouble to embed a YouTube video: just paste the link and you are done! There comes a time though when you discover that a pasted link remains just that, a link, and it won’t be magically transformed into a real video […]
If you happen to ignore the secrets of regular expressions and you need to perform these rather common tasks, here is how you can do it. A most useful search (and replace or remove) command is when you need to get rid of some links. /<a href=”http:\/\/domain\.com[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/a>/ The formula above will find any domain.com link. […]
WordPress performs auto saves as you edit a post. An auto save or even a publish command can be interrupted by connection problems, in which case you are left with a grayed out button, unable to save your post even as a draft! In this so unpleasant situation you may have to copy all page […]
Sometimes WordPress may refuse to get updates for your plugins or even the core system. Besides that it may also refuse to update even the settings of one or more of your plugins, or update some of their settings while leaving the rest of them empty! All of these update problems may be caused by […]