Saturday, February 9th, 2008 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
I use FeedBurner for RSS feeds. There are three of them:
First one is used on this website and some planet sites (Planet LinuxToGo, Planet Closed fist), second on Planet OpenMoko and last one on Planet Maemo. And I do not care about comments feed.
With default “Meta” widget link to WP feed was shown and also link to comments feed. My plugin removes both of them. Additionally link to WordPress homepage is replaced with link to WordPress MU website if it is used.
Download plugin.
License: same as WordPress (as it is WP code mostly).
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
When I wrote post about my palmtops story WordPress added many pingbacks into my older posts (which I linked to). As a result all of them appeared in “Recent Comments” widget. This hide real ones so I decided that it is time to change something.
And thats how “Hrw Recent Comments” widget was created. I took wp-includes/widgets.php file from my WordPress MU installation and extracted original widget. Then one edit of SQL query and everything works like expected — no pingbacks to my blog posts in sidebar.
Download plugin.
License: same as WordPress (as it is WP code mostly).
UPDATE: fixed SQL query to make it really work.
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Few months ago I switched my website to “Big Blue” theme created by Bob. Then did some changes to it:
- Wordpress tags are used instead of categories
- Post author is shown
- Doctype changed to XHTML 1.0 Strict
- “Home” link removed
- Archive/search/category views use full contents of posts instead of excerpts
- removed default sidebar contents (use Presentation->Widgets to set them)
- single post view does not show tags
Also CSS changes:
- removed extra font-family settings - only body, pre & code has font family set
- comment form is scaled to 80%
- Calendar widget takes 100% width and has properly aligned Prev/Next links
- blockquote is more visible
- <q> quotes are italic
- BSuite plugin highlighting of search entries
- Author comments are marked
Download and enjoy.
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
I use tags on my blog for years. First it was done with UTW and when WordPress MU 1.3 got released I switched to native WP tags.
The first thing which I missed was nice Tag Cloud widget. Default WP one just printed all tags without giving any control to user about how it have to look. So I looked at source and wrote own version.
How to use it?
Fetch archive, unpack into wp-content/plugins/ directory and enable “Hrw Tag cloud widget” in “Plugins list”. Then go to “Presentation/Widgets” and replace “Tag cloud” widget with mine. You will see configuration options.
Download archive.
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Some time ago I upgraded to one of Release Candidate of Wordpress MU. It was working but only partially (tag links get broken on my setup). Today I fetched fresh 1.3 release (based on WordPress 2.3.1) and installed on my website.
New thing which got added is native tags support — no more UltimateTagWarrior usage but instead WP tags. Some hints for those who will also upgrade:
- Importing tags from UTW is in Manage -> Import and works great (require enabled UTW).
- After import UTW can be disabled and removed
- Tag cloud is not so nice as it was with UTW tag cloud widget and is not configurable :(
- Install Recommended Tags plugin to get help on tagging during writing (very configurable plugin). If you have lot of tags then disable “Display all tags” option (Options-> Recommended Tags).
- If you use theme not ready for WordPress 2.3 then you have to edit it and use
the_tags function to list tags.
Then — happy tagging and using WordPress 2.3.x or WPMU 1.3.x :)
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Yesterday I decided to give a new look to my website after I found Barthelme theme. It is minimalistic and it support Wordpress widgets so I’m able to change sidebar content without touching line of code.
Of course like always there had to be some changes done.. I added UTW support, wrote ‘Hrw Pages’ sidebar widget which allow to skip some ‘Pages’ and changed CSS a bit (I like to have <pre> blocks visible).
The result is visible now — what do you think about this look?
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