Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress Plugins’

WordPress Caching Plugins For Shared Hosting: W3 Total Cache vs WP Super Cache vs Hyper Cache

Monday, August 30th, 2010

I recently was faced with a decision: which WordPress caching plugin to use on my shared hosting account. The choice was between WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache and Hyper Cache. This article documents my admittedly limited testing of these plugins and the decision I made as a result.

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Version 1.12 Of Comment Warning Released

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I’ve released version 1.12 of Comment Warning overnight. It only contains a small, non critical, change – it now counts how many comments have been made from each IP address in the Log. (more…)

New WordPress Plugin To Deter Comment Spam

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Late last week, I quietly released my new WordPress plugin, Comment Warning. Over the weekend, I added some extra functionality and it’s now reached the point where I’m ready to announce it to the world. (more…)

WordPress Plugin Development (Beginner’s Guide)

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

This is perhaps my most overdue post ever – a review of Vladimir Prelovac‘s book, WordPress Plugin Development (Beginner’s Guide) (more…)

WordPress 2.7 And My WordPress Plugins

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

I’ve been using WordPress 2.7 for a while now and have comprehensively tested my WordPress plugins on it. In this post, I release the results of my testing: Four plugins work fine (albeit with a non version specific bug found in one of them). One plugin seems to have problems with WordPress 2.7.

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2008 On More Than Scratch The Surface

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Happy New Year to all! A new year, a new start, but before I start churning out new posts, I want to have a quick look at 2008 on More Than Scratch The Surface. I’m not normally given to writing review posts, but I was looking at my Google Analytics stats for 2008 and felt moved to write a review of 2008.

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Christmas Update – Greasemonkey, WordPress 2.7, Plugins And More!

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

First let me wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I hope you all accept my best wishes, even if you don’t celebrate Christmas.

December has been a very busy month for me and I haven’t had much time for posting. I may not get another post out this year, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to update you on some of the projects I’m working on.

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Notice: WordPress Plugin Category Feeds To Be Removed

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

It’s been a while since I last posted, because I’ve been tied up with some other projects. My focus is now returning to this blog, but before I get into anything of substance, there’s some housekeeping I need to take care of.

If you subscribe to the feed of one of my WordPress plugin categories, please be warned that these feeds will be removed in 7 days time. (more…)

How To Display Ads Only To Search Visitors

Friday, September 19th, 2008

In the past, I’ve written about only showing Google Adsense to search engine visitors, so as to decrease the chance of being smart priced. In this post, you’ll see how to improve the technique outlined previously, so that you can make more money.

Note: Although this post is about showing Adsense to search engine visitors, it’s really about determining whether a user came from a search engine or not. The technique can be used to show search engine visitors whatever you choose, not just Adsense.
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Roundup – Work, Plugin News, Theme Update

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

This is a brief update on what I’ve been doing, my plans for the site and my WordPress Plugins. (more…)

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