Today, the site admin Tingfeng is going to introduce a plugin called WP-Polls. WP-Polls gives your blog Ajax-based polling, and it is completely free, has no restrictions, and won't slow your site down. You might worry that WP-Polls's theme isn't pretty enough, but that's not a problem either, because you can set WP-Polls's own theme and color scheme. ...
Yesterday when I logged into 逐風者, I was surprised to find that WordPress 2.8.1 RC was already out. It’s only an RC release, but at least it’s better than a beta. This time it doesn’t add many features — it just brings the visual editor back from the dead (in 2.8 the visual editor would disappear). Other than that, I didn’t notice any particularly special updates. If you want to try it out, go download it now. ...
Today I’m going to teach you a handy little trick: the more tag. Anyone who has just set up WordPress has probably noticed that WordPress doesn’t have a built-in feature to display only a few lines of a post, so every post shows up in full on the homepage, which makes the homepage look pretty ugly. In fact, there is a way to insert a continue reading tag, and it’s built into WordPress. I have to admit, when I first started I used it as an <hr> tag XD Let’s take a look at what it does first! ...
WordPress 2.8.1 Beta is out! But personally I don’t quite dare to try it yet, because after I installed 2.8 last time the visual editor disappeared and a whole bunch of other problems………….? Even though 2.8.1 is out this time, it’s only a beta, so it’s hard to say how stable it is I don’t want to waste time downgrading XD If you want to use it, go ahead and grab it! ...
Today I want to introduce a plugin called Subscribe To Comments. It can automatically tell commenters that their comment has been replied to, so they don’t have to come back and check for themselves. Subscribe To Comments was recommended to me by Brother Sausage, and since I think it’s pretty useful, I’m sharing it with everyone. Subscribe To Comments Info: Download: Xun6 | 4Shared | Box.net | WordPress Virus scan report: VirusTotal ...
Today I finally updated WordPress from 2.7 to 2.8! WordPress 2.8 is said to focus on performance this time, and it doesn’t really add many features, but it does fix a lot of bugs from older versions (more than 700 of them — scary, right?). That said, WordPress 2.8 does still come with some new features (though, as I mentioned above, not many). As for the interface, it might give you the illusion that… the update was just a version number change = =, because this update keeps the same 2.7 admin interface with no obvious changes. That’s roughly all I have to say. Next, let me walk you through a few of the main new features in WordPress 2.8. WordPress 2.8 Information Official site http://wordpress.org/ Core program http://wordpress.org/latest.zip Chinese language pack http://wordpress.kirin-lin.idv.tw/news/wordpress28zhtw ...
How do you schedule a post in WordPress? Do you need a plugin? Actually, no — WordPress has a built-in scheduled posting feature, but it is hidden so cleverly that very few people ever find it. I only learned about it after seeing it on someone else’s blog. So how do you use scheduled posting? Follow the tutorial below and you are guaranteed to get it. If anything is unclear, feel free to ask me in the comments. ...
Last time we finished setting up WP, and the system gave you a set of account credentials. The only problem is that the password is really hard to remember, and the username is adm, which is easy to guess — that’s a real security risk for your blog. So now let’s show you how to change your username & password. Changing the username Log in to your web host’s control panel and click phpMyAdmin. ...
Today I’d like to introduce a package for building blogs — WordPress. It’s a program that lets you set up a blog very easily. It’s written in PHP. In the future, this site will publish more related tutorials. Its latest version right now is 2.7.1. One of my favorite features is its heavy use of Ajax. You don’t have to reload the page every time you organize it. It also supports a lot of plugins and themes. So you don’t have to figure out how to lay out your interface yourself. For people who don’t know CSS, this is a real blessing. Also, it’s an open-source package. That means if there’s anything inside it you’re not happy with, you can modify it yourself. In effect, it gives me a great place to practice web programming. Here are some things to note when setting up WP. If you want to set it up on your own host, you just need to install AppServ. But if you want to put it on a web hosting space, you first have to make sure the provider offering the space provides PHP and MySQL services. Without these services, you can’t set it up at all. ...