8 Consolidate Comments from Social Media in Your Blog
January 16th, 2011 by moonpixel

consolidate blog comments When I met J L Gatewood, he mentioned something about consolidating blog comments with social media comments and drawing them back to the blog post. That did sound like an interesting idea.
I was looking for something universal. Ideally a solution where I don’t need to rely on several different plugins (and get in trouble when the plugin author decides to discontinue the updates), also possibly something more platform independent which would still work if I decided to move my blog from WordPress in the future. Hmm perhaps I want too much? [...]
Added some additional thoughts after using Disqus for 2 months [...]

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COMMENT WordPress 3.0.4 Important Security Update
December 30th, 2010 by moonpixel

Again another Critical Security Upgrade for WordPress, came in a very inconvenient time, however it is important to upgrade ASAP. The WP Upgrade mechanism did come a long way and it it very fast end efficient these days. Therefore please take your time and do your upgrades NOW. While at it, I wish you all [...]

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1 WordPress Theme jQuery and JavaScript Usage Tips
December 29th, 2010 by moonpixel

jQuery grew in popularity exponentially in last couple years, and is pretty much a standard “tool” of a web developer. jQuery 1.5 is due soon, expected with hope to take our possibilities again to another level.

jQuery wordpress What’s the best way to use jQuery and JavaScript in our WordPress themes tho? According to the WP Codex the wp_enqueue_script() function should be used instead of the typical <script> tag. I prefer using wp_enqueue_script() in my theme’s functions.php but I do see people using it directly in the theme’s header.php.

WordPress has already jQuery included, so in order to make the library available in our theme, we can just use [ ... ]

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COMMENT WordPress 3.0.2 is Out – Please Upgrade!
December 1st, 2010 by moonpixel

We have here another potential security threat to our WordPress sites, where a malicious user can gain access to the website.
WordPress 3.0.2 is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions. [...]

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1 Deleted Post in RSS Feed – WordPress and FeedBurner
November 21st, 2010 by moonpixel

Recently I needed to validate a WordPress blog in a social media service by inserting the verification code into a new post and publishing it. It all went well and in few minutes I could remove the post.

feedburner logoI have “unpublished it” (Draft), but the post would still show in the RSS feed, so I did go further and finally deleted the post. However the deleted post was still present in the feed served via the FeedBurner. [...]

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