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The Missing Stat: noscript

I use Google Analytics for my web sites, you might use Mint or something else bespoke, but if you're using JavaScript to track those stats (as Google does), you're not capturing how many users you have that don't have JavaScript installed. I've written a plugin which I'll share with you and also explain how [...]

Complete Posts in WordPress Feeds

If you use WordPress and make use of the <!-- more --> tag, some of you may want to still show the complete post in the RSS feed. You have to change some code, but it's easy to do.

How I Fixed WordPress' Broken Upgrade

This morning I was greeted by a big upgrade button on my wordpress admin page. Clicking on it returned: WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_nickname' in 'field list'] What's worse, it also broke my blog, because all the plugins were turned off by default. Here's how I fixed it.

Last.fm Recent Album Artwork Plugin

My blog is now running a WordPress plugin that shows the album covers from Last.fm of songs I've recently listened to. There's a lot of plugins out there, but none that I found that did the job of getting the artwork, and certainly not for the most recent albums. Download the Last.fm recent album artwork [...]

TextMate Tagging with Simple Tagging

I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.2 and found that Ultimate Tag Warrior wasn't working anymore for me. Although I managed to hack it a bit and eventually found UTW 3, the biggest problem (and show stopper) was when a new comment was placed on a post, all the tags would disappear. So I've moved to [...]

TextMate tagging with WordPress 2.2

I've just upgraded to WordPress 2.2 and now Ultimate Tag Warrior is broken and my TextMate tagging doesn't work anymore. So here is the explanation on how to get the two working again.

WordPress smiles

Has this always been here? Superb!