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Entries Tagged as 'PHP'

What is it about PHP

February 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment

I’m no fan of PHP, I believe it is a terrible language which produces insecure, ugly code almost all the time, yet I use it. It powers this blog, for example, and it will be powering the online store I am about to launch. Why do I use it when there are […]

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Tags: Rants · Wordpress

3 Column template with good Adsense placement

February 12th, 2006 · 6 Comments

The Three column style for Wordpress weblogs is getting very popular.

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Tags: Templates · Wordpress

Wordpress 2.0.1 still has annoying attribute stripping

February 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

When Wordpress 2.0 was released, its aggressive tag attribute stripping caused me a lot of pain.

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Tags: Wordpress

Wordpress title suffix plugin

January 24th, 2006 · 27 Comments

I read some research lately which seems to show that keywords matter to search engines in your site’s “title” tag. Not only that, but position matters. Preferably your page title should precede your site title.Unfortunately Wordpress is coded to make that sort of ugly.

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Tags: Plugins · Wordpress · Downloads

Solving Wordpress 2.0 External Posting Errors

January 8th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Since upgrading to WP2.0 I had not been able to use my favorite Weblog editor Ecto to do any posts which contained any inline tags, such as div or span classes. Also, it had been stripping the meat of Image tags.

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Tags: Wordpress · Site