http://wprocker.com WP Rocker - Fresh Links, News and Updates from WordPress wprocker.com http://wprocker.com/story/55623/ This guest post was written by Jennifer Nodwell, a coder and website developer since 1997 who works almost exclusively with open source CMS applications like WordPress. If you have webmaster or WordPress knowledge and are interested in writing a post for WordPress Hacks, please contact us. If you&.. Mon, 02 May 2011 10:35:00 -0500 WP Hacks http://wprocker.com/story/55623/ http://wprocker.com/story/52854/ Twitter is all the rage these days and it doesn’t seem like it will be going anywhere any time soon.  With that said, it often surprises me that many WordPress blog owners  don’t offer a convenient way for their readers to retweet their content.  Anyone can grab a Twitter WordPress p.. Tue, 04 May 2010 20:16:00 -0500 WP Hacks http://wprocker.com/story/52854/ http://wprocker.com/story/52826/ Some of you will be surprised that why exactly is the post not about the linux web server setup for WordPress blogs. The reason is that one of my very good friend Shridhar Pare, owner of Xisto Network gave me a visit. As you can imagine we had long discussions about web, web hosting and forums where.. Mon, 03 May 2010 23:26:00 -0500 Blog Design Studio http://wprocker.com/story/52826/ http://wprocker.com/story/52712/ After manually upgrading one of our client’s sites to WordPress 2.9.2. we noticed that the only thing that went awry was the automatic plugin upgrade. WP asked me for the FTP information, and then gave me this error message: Cannot find Content directory (WP-Content) The first solution I fo.. Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:43:00 -0500 WordPress Garage http://wprocker.com/story/52712/ http://wprocker.com/story/52645/ So you want to make your old WordPress themes compatible with newer versions of WordPress. With WordPress 3.0 right around the corner, theme compatibility is something on a lot of people’s minds. It’s pretty simple: do absolutely nothing. I’ve been making WordPress themes since a.. Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:48:00 -0500 Theme Lab http://wprocker.com/story/52645/ http://wprocker.com/story/52300/ Nearly a month is left before long awaited and much talked about WordPress 3.0 comes out. However, we are seeing a flurry posts on WordPress 3.0. Most of the bloggers are writing about this upcoming master piece, so I thought that I should write something about WordPress 3.0 too as Beta 1 has alread.. Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:30:00 -0500 Blog Design Studio http://wprocker.com/story/52300/ http://wprocker.com/story/51792/ Recently, I needed to list all subpages of a parent page.  I also needed to display custom fields below each subpage. And, on top of that, the list needed to be 2 columns. I found a solution for simply listing the pages in 2 columns, but it did not suggest how to modify the code to include custom f.. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:51:00 -0500 WordPress Garage http://wprocker.com/story/51792/ http://wprocker.com/story/51681/ One of our clients needed to upload files via their admin, and kept getting the following error message: “File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another.” This was something new to us, and after doing some research we discovered that WordPress only allows users to upload certain types .. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:19:00 -0500 WordPress Garage http://wprocker.com/story/51681/ http://wprocker.com/story/51426/ Today I want to go over some of the do’s and don’ts of WordPress theming. Regardless if you’re building a WordPress theme for yourself or if you’re building one for release so others can use it, you should be following these do’s and don’ts as closely as possible... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:20:00 -0600 Theme Lab http://wprocker.com/story/51426/ http://wprocker.com/story/51360/ I just came across a post published today which goes over “the right way” to highlight author comments in WordPress. Basically, instead of the usual code that inserts the “admincomment” class for just the first user (user ID 1). In the post, that code is adapted for any pos.. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:08:00 -0600 Theme Lab http://wprocker.com/story/51360/ http://wprocker.com/story/50556/ In last post, I told you about Content Delivery Networks and how to use them along with WordPress. Although, now I can suggest that one should certainly use Content Delivery Network as I’ve experienced the change in speed myself! Yesterday, I implemented CDN on this blog and the notice is cons.. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:27:00 -0600 Blog Design Studio http://wprocker.com/story/50556/ http://wprocker.com/story/50459/ What is Content Delivery Network?A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network. A client accesses a copy.. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:22:00 -0600 Blog Design Studio http://wprocker.com/story/50459/ http://wprocker.com/story/50146/ (Image Credit – ClickonF5)Since few months, I’ve been hearing lot of horror stories regarding the security compromises that bloggers have to deal with. It’s open source nature, what has been the boon for WordPress, is now standing against it (For Hardcore Open-source lovers &#8211.. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:17:00 -0600 Blog Design Studio http://wprocker.com/story/50146/ http://wprocker.com/story/50093/ If you have a semi-popular blog, chances are you have a few scraper sites copying your posts directly from your feed. When you catch a site doing this, you’ll probably be pretty upset at first, seeing as they just copied all your hard work, and probably didn’t even give you credit. Ins.. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:52:00 -0600 Theme Lab http://wprocker.com/story/50093/ http://wprocker.com/story/49928/ We were working on a WordPress site that needed to display a sticky post at the top of the blog page with one style, and then below it a list of the most recent posts with a completely different style. I realize that you can just style the sticky post using the sticky-related classes provided by Wor.. Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:30:00 -0600 WordPress Garage http://wprocker.com/story/49928/