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January 25, 2009

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WordPress links week 4 – 2009

Another week and of course another post with links from the WordPress community.

Here are the links for this week:

January 25, 2009

General

Transfer Your FeedBurner Feed

If you remember a couple years ago, way back in the summer of 2007, Google bought the venerable feed mirror and statistics company FeedBurner. The Big G has since been slowly migrating everyone’s accounts over to their own servers, moving away from the old FeedBurner ones.
- By Webmaster-Source
Is WordPress Porn A Good Idea?

A quick look at the most recently submitted WordPress ideas and it appears as though spam has once again been able to creep onto the site. However, the ideas section is not the only one to feel the onslaught of spam. The WordPress Hackers mailing list as well as the Testers mailing list every now and then gets a few spam messages. But more notably, the WordPress.org forum appears to receive spam posts every day. Unlike most other forums or registration forms, the one used on WordPress.org does not contain any CAPTCHA images or any anti-spam measures. This could be the reason behind the spam getting through which is then seen by quite a few people. Although I must say, the administrators/moderators do a great job of tracking that stuff down and keeping it at bay but they can’t catch them all, at least initially.
- By WP Tavern
WordCamp Whistler: WordPress Power Tips Slide Show

Whew! What a day. WordCamp Whistler 2009 in Whistler, BC, Canada, today has been one non-stop WordPress packed WordCamp. I’ll have more details, but you can see my Slideshare version of my presentation below on WordPress Power Tips.
- By Lorelle VanFossen

Tips/Tutorials/How to’s

PHP and JavaScript Fallbacks for Your Public Feedburner Count

With the recent Feedburner service outage, many sites across the Web experienced severe drops in their Feedburner subscriber counts. Apparently, Google is requiring all Feedburner accounts to be transferred over to Google by the end of February. In the midst of this mass migration, chaotic subscriber data has been reported to include everything from dramatic count drops and fluctuating reach statistics to zero-count values and dreaded “N/A” subscriber-count errors. Obviously, displaying erroneous subscriber-count data on your site is not a good thing. Fortunately, there are several ways to ensure that this doesn’t happen.
- By Perishable Press
Kevin asked: “how to: disable search engine indexing on a particular category?”

Some days ago, I shown you how to disable search engine indexing on a single post. One of WpRecipes reader, Kevin Paquet, asked me how to do the same thing on a specific category. Here is the answer to Kevin question.
- By WP Recipes
Making a CSS mouseover menu using background-position

I used to think making a mouseover menu in CSS was quite hard. When i was told it would invole measuring and getting the dimensions of each menu item it sounded complex and a long way around something i could do faster using javascript to change from one image to another. Well after doing it a couple of times, it’s actually really easy, and because only one image is used, it helps make the pages loads faster and the menus also work faster.
- By Website building tutorials

Plugins

Plugin Review: WP125

125 x 125 button advertising has become a rage with almost every blog / site selling advertisement. Out here at Weblog Tools Collection, we use OIO Publisher for this. However, if you’re not interested in purchasing the plugin, then WP125 is an excellent choice for the same.
- By Weblog Tools Collection

Blogging

5 Ways Blogging Can Make You a Better Writer

Today freelance writer Jenny Cromie shares 5 areas in which blogging can help you to improve your writing.
- By Pro Blogger