Thesis-Wordpress-template-tips

"First, you should also check out WPDB Profiling. Second, we used to use YARPP, but with an investor site that we did which had 6000+ posts and 1800+ tags, it completely choked. Even WP-Related-Posts would cause pages that displayed related posts to take 10+ seconds to load. We ended up having to write our own plugin (which is not released yet, but I hope to eventually). We called it "Related Posts -HV" (for high-volume). Basically, it stores related posts as post meta when a post is saved. It moves the heavy lifting to a one-time thing that affects the post writer, rather than affecting everyone that visits the site. However, you don't want ONLY older posts to show as related, so you need to re-process a lot of posts when a new one is saved. We created some logic that gives a value of HOW RELATED two posts are. When a post is saved, that value is generated for all posts (comparing the new one to all existing posts). The top X (you can set this value) are saved as post meta. However, every post with a r" - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

There are some really good tips in here. - Mike Showalter

"chuckjoe42 - your site also appears fine in IE7, the navigation links only disappear in IE6 IE6 is notoriously fickle in the way it interprets (or misinterprets) the width of objects. When I View->Source your blog page in IE6, I can see that your nav links are there - I supect it has something to do with the class="full_width" portion of the nav link structure. Maybe you can try using a custom class="almost_full_width" (maybe 98% instead of 100%) and see if that makes the nav links appear." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Comment tracking - on any post I do for LouisGray.com, there is no way via Disqus for me to track just the comments from the posts that I wrote. Therefore, I subscribe to each post’s RSS comments that I write, and any new comments come into my feed reader. I do this with many blogs that don’t provide a way other than RSS for me to track all the comments." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Solution 1: Use the Paste from Word Button All recent versions of WordPress (and its TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor) have a little button in the editing panel which enables you to remove the excess formatting. See the image below: WordPress Paste From Word If you are using Dean’s FCKEditor plugin, see the image below: FCKeditor Paste from Word You will also notice another button on the left of the Paste From Word button which enables you to Paste as Plain Text. This is another equally useful option for removing formatting." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"From a more practical standpoint, one of the nicest features of TinyMCE is its “Paste from Word” feature which attempts to clean up the garbage spewed out of Microsoft Word. In my experience, users love to actually type significant amounts of text into Microsoft Word, admittedly a better tool for this, and then paste their finely crafted words into TinyMCE. But Word’s junky formatting can make your storage back-end throw a fit. In the versions of TinyMCE I’ve been using, this feature isn’t perfect, but it helps." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Yeah, as of Thesis 1.4 (or was it 1.3.3?), Thesis does all (or at least most?) that All-in-One SEO does, making it unnecessary." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"See, what is going on here is that for search to work you MUST have metadata. Google built a multi-billion-dollar business on the metadata of linking. The next big business will build on top of the metadata of these three things: 1. Who shared or commented on an item. The search above I knew I had liked the picture, so I constrained the search to only things I’ve liked." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Yep. A theme, a plugin, your text editor when you edit the wp-config.php file... These are the most common causes of this problem. Again, read this: http://feedvalidator.org/docs..." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Modern versions of Word can publish directly to WordPress blogs using XML-RPC or the Atom Publishing Protocol. Just enable those on the Settings->Writing page (in WordPress) and then use the Publish-to-blog functionality in Word itself. It works and Word even cleans up its own crappy formatting in the process." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"The line is actually an image file in the content_box. Add this to your custom.css to remove it." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Did you create a /cache folder and give it 777 permissions? Also, if you have your thumbnails set to display "before post," you have to make sure that your teasers are showing excerpts, or else the images will not show up." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Thesis Theme Teasers - Step-By-Step Install Go in Appearance - Design Options in your WordPress blog menu and look under “Home Page Layout and Content”. These are the steps to take when installing Thesis teasers:" - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"You can easily turn off post-revision by adding the following line to the wp_config.php file define(’WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false); If you want to keep the post revision for record purpose, you can limit the number of revisions saved per post. In your wp_config.php file, add the following line instead: define(’WP_POST_REVISIONS’, no_of_revision); and replace the no_of_revision by the number of revision copy you want to keep." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"One idea that immediately comes to mind is the creation of your own widgets (think sales boxes, special links, product descriptions, etc.)." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"[resolved] [Plugin: Yoast Breadcrumbs] Adding code to templates (8 posts)" - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Topic is resolved, thanks for the quick replies. For any other total Wordpress noobs questioning how to add the code to your templates see below: From the dashboard- click on "Design" Then click "Theme Editor"" - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"01-16-2008, 07:15 PM Thanks all. I'll tell you if I get a solution... I´ve figured out a way to solve this problem. It seems that there´s an issue with the gettext library and wordpress running in a x64 machine. Basically it´s a byte addressing issue regarding the language files located at wp-includes/languages. The system cannot read the .mo file them it loads default english captions. For Wordpress 2.1.3 open wp-includes/gettext.php and at line 105 find: // Caching can be turned off" - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Installing WordPress in Your Language" - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Categories are like a site’s DNA—they literally form the organizational framework that houses all of a site’s information. Like DNA, category structures are unique, and therefore, a one size fits all solution for handling them doesn’t make any sense." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"As far as blogs are concerned, categories are the single biggest contributor to both page bloat and link dilution, two of the most abominable SEO sins. Ironically, when used properly, these same categories hold the key to efficient, automated site optimization and content management…" - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"How to Add Custom Backgrounds" - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"It isn't really necessary to have a special "print page," like that plugin adds; if anything, that adds yet another step that users have to follow to get what they want, which is negative usability. Simply having a decent print stylesheet is enough, as users can Ctrl-P right from their browsers while viewing your regular blog posts, and the browser will use the print stylesheet to send your copy to the printer." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Like I said, that's all my personal opinion. IE6, from what I understand, fails at handling em-based dimensions properly, so the smartest thing to do to ensure compatibility would be to do as ericwpm suggests: resizing all the images to a size suitable to the multimedia box so that no resizing at all is required. If you have a lot of images, there are plenty of free batch resizers available for Windows & Mac. __________________" - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Here is the best solution I’ve managed to come up with in half a day to finally install over 30 WordPress weblogs in under 5 minutes (once the preparation work was done)." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"So if your blog is at "blog.example.com", you'd change "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/" to "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/blog/". These two lines: RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f" - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Integrated FriendFeed comments: if I switch this will be a big selling point. Intense Debate imports FriendFeed comments into the comment thread itself, so they just look like standard comments." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"If you’re starting a new blog, or haven’t joined the commenting 2.0 revolution, you should have Intense Debate on your list. The switching path is easier than Disqus, and you could do far worse." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"Surprisingly easy to setup and install, IntenseDebate will bring an extra social aspect to my blog but it does much more. It includes Gravatar support if the commenter is registered with IntenseDebate - even if they haven’t signed up with the Gravatar service; the avatars also work if you just use IntenseDebate. It adds threaded comments." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

"IntenseDebate, a commenting plugin for popular blog platforms like WordPress, Blogger, and TypePad, just announced that it will allow third-party developers to write plugins on top of its new Plugin API. The company launched this new feature today with plugins for PollDaddy, Seesmic, and YouTube. Publishers can easily activate these new plugins from their IntenseDebate dashboard." - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet