WordPress

Broken Link Checker and other great WordPress Plugins

Actually, I just wanted to write a short post about my newly discovered WordPress Plugin: Broken Link Checker. It allows you to scan through and test all links on your site. It will then list all links that don’t work anymore or are now being redirected to a different address. Since the Internet is a [...]

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I am reading ‹del>(continued)</del›

Good news! The original author of the plugin “I am reading”, Dominik Hanke, has contacted me and asked me if I would like to add my updated version, which I had first uploaded as a new project “I am reading (continued)”, to his original project. That will also make things easier for the many users [...]

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Blemish in WordPress plugin “FireStats”

Actually I didn’t want to write about this at all, but now I see that some people googled for the very same error message that I recently got from FireStats as well: Wrong parameter count for debug_backtrace() Obviously Google combed through my site just at the time when it was littered with that unlovely error message, and [...]

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Flash, Internet, Programming

Object not showing up in Firefox?

When converting my site to XHTML, the WordPress plugin “WP GuestMap” posed another little obstacle. It is the plugin that I use on the “Visitors” page to display the world map with the hometowns of all visitors. Until now, I had implemented the map via IFrame. Although the plugin does offer a code snippet for XHTML-conform [...]

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Automatic updates in WordPress

With the release of WordPress 2.7 on 11th December, I was facing a problem: Manual plugin updates don’t seem to be provided for anymore. To date, I had always downloaded my plugins using the download link in the backend and then moved them to my server via FTP, because the automatic update had never worked for me – [...]

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