My most successful website, Moneyterms used to run on WordPress. I have found it linked to as an example of WordPress running something other than a blog. However things changed. Continue reading
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WordPress plugin: Slug Trimmer
I have got sick of URLs that end in really long post slugs that look-something-like-this-and-are-far-too-long so I wrote a little plugin that shortens post slugs more intelligently than simply truncating them.
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New site
I have decided that I should blog about investment on a separate site.
The new site is The Strategy Blog. I intend to put a fair amount of work into it – have a lot of ideas that simply do not fit into any of my other sites and it seems a shame to waste them.
WordPress theme: Red Drop
Red Drop is a red (surprisingly!) WordPress theme with drop down menus. Continue reading
Bad modelling
A flawed analysis of trends in the number of blogs, and the increase in the number of spam blogs, has lead people to think that the number of non-spam blogs is falling. In fact the growth trends remain strong. Continue reading
WordPress theme: Dent
This is a simple theme based on earth colours. Continue reading
WordPress theme: Esthwaite
My first completely original WordPress themes. You can preview it by using the theme browser (you may have to reload the page to get the theme to change). Continue reading
WordPress plugin: Frameable
This plugin is designed to make individual pages of a site frameable. This can be used to enable cut and paste quoting of individual posts or cut and paste (X)HTML only syndication of a blog or blog category. Continue reading
Simple Sparklines WordPress plugin, version 0.2
I have updated my Simple Sparklines WordPress plugin. My thanks to David Chait and Mark Wubben for anwsering my questions on the WordPress support forum. The hardwork was done for me by James Byers’ Sparkline PHP Graphing Library. Continue reading
Thanks
I have mentioned my other sites and the various changes but some thanks and acknowledgements are needed.
All three of my sites are running on WordPress. Although known as blog software (and that it what it is in the default configuration) it is very versatile and makes a great CMS for many sites. The support forums are very invaluable. The most useful for me of the many plugins I have tried have been The_excerpt Reloaded (which allowed my to show excerpts to the length I wanted) and WP-Cache (which made my sites noticably faster loading). Continue reading