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With the coming release of WordPress 2.7 we now have an easy way to separate out your pings and trackbacks from your comments. I will be using the default theme WordPress comes with to show you have to do this.  Below is the important code you should focus on:

Have you ever needed to see what a theme looks like with your content but you did not want to have to recreate your whole site on a testing server and import all your data?  Well, Theme Test Drive to the rescue. You simply download the plugin, unzip it, upload it to your WordPress install, [...]

This is so overly great, WordPress 2.7 will be release on Thursday. This is huge and which means I need to get my butt in gear in getting my plugins updated. As promised, here is the advance notice that WordPress 2.7 is coming to WordPress.com, and will go live on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at [...]

Recently I had been asked to help put together a post scroller widget for a WordPress install but sadly after it was nearly completed it was agreed that it would not "fit" the site it was meant for. And it is true, some sites, depending on who the site is meant for - the targeted [...]

If you are a WordPress plugin Developer then you most likely have used the "add_menu_page" function before.  With WordPress 2.7 you can now add an icon to your plugin to be shown in the new side menu in the admin area. PLAIN TEXT PHP: add_menu_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $access_level, $file, $function = '', $icon_url = '' [...]

WordPress 2.7 will be release sometime soon and with it comes a new feature call "favorite actions," it's a drop down menu that is sort of a quick launch to your most used actions. Right now it only contains "Add New Post", "Add New Page" and "Manage Comments". Like with most features in WordPress, you [...]

I am pleased to another WordPress plugin geared toward improving the functionality and usability of WordPress' admin area. This plugin will extend the functionality of the richtext editor to include the ability to browse thru all your images that have been uploaded to your WordPress install. Feel free to check it out at Image Browser [...]

Today I present to you my newest release, a WordPress plugin that adds/extends the functionality of the richtext editor for editing post and pages call Editor Extender.  Fancy name huh?  I am not very creative with my names but I am however creative with my code.  I've been using this plugin in probably about half [...]

Lately I have been do a ton of development with WordPress for use in a few websites as CMS - which I will be doing a few post on at some point - and I found using the Media Library to be a bit lacking. Not to bash anyone but there just seemed to be [...]

Today I had a need to get all posts between to dates in WordPress, between now and a year ago. After searching and searching I could find the answer I needed. So I decided to just write the query myself which I have done many times before but not with WordPress' database scheme.