WordPress 2.5 have a very neat image uploader that will allow you to upload several images at one go. There are three options when you want to insert an image that you have uploaded into a post, namely Link URL, Alignment and Size.

The default settings for these options are as below:

By default, the image will link to the original image that you have uploaded, with no alignment and medium sized. As far as I know, there is no way to change these default options and it is definitely annoying to have a few extra clicks every time an image is uploaded just to make your image to be displayed at your liking.

The only solution I have discovered for the time being is to modify the maximum width and height of the medium sized image. It can be done via Settings > Miscellaneous.

After changing the maximum width and height of a medium sized image, you can now skip the step to change the image size from medium to full size.

Please do kindly let me know if there is any better way for modifying the preset settings of the image uploader.

WordPress 2.5 has finally released, and WordPress.org has been redesigned to resemble WordPress 2.5’s dashboard. Here is how it looks like for now:

I have upgraded both of my WordPress blogs to WordPress 2.5, and after just 5 minutes of exploring it, I decided I love the older version better. Two changes on the Write page that really bothers me:

• The Category selection no longer sits at the sidebar of the Write page, instead, it is now placed under the textarea, which is also below the fold. I forgot to assign categories to my first blog post after upgrading because of this
• Image uploading looks more difficult this time. Instead of an uploading box ready right below of the textarea, you gotta click on the Add media button this time, and wait for the ajax thing to load, only then you can upload the image. Too much hassle in my opinion

Another thing I noticed after the upgrade:

The logo looks so wrong with the dark background. Doesn’t really bother much, but it can definitely be much better. These are just what I have noticed so far after less than 30 minutes of upgrading, of course there are a lot of other cool features that I have yet to notice, but so far I have only met with inconvenience.

Probably I need time to suit myself to the new environment. Watch the screencast to have a tour of WordPress 2.5’s new dashboard environment.

P/s: Uploading just three images for this post is already a pain

You would find this useful if you want to redirect one or more of your WordPress page(s) to another website. For example, you want a link on your navigation that will fetch your visitors to your Flickr or to your forum which is located at another address.

There are two ways of doing this, using a redirect php file or by just using a meta tag.

The Use of Meta Tag

1. Create a WordPress page
2. In the page, insert this meta tag:
   <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://example.com" />
3. Substitute “0″ which the number of seconds you want to delay before redirecting. Substitute “http://example.com” with the URL of the website you want to redirect to

The Use of redirect.php

1. Download and upload the redirect.php file by cavemonkey50 to your theme’s directory (/wp-content/themes/theme name/)
2. Create a WordPress page
3. Select “Redirect” as your page template.
4. Add a custom field with the key “redirect” and the value being the URL of your targeted website

I personally prefer the second method, as using meta tag seems to delay the redirecting more.

If you upgrade your blog regularly every time WordPress releases a new version, you should know how pain it is to deactivate every single plugins you have there. Deactivate one.. page reload..wait.. deactivate another.. page reload.. wait.. (you get the idea)

To replace this very important feature WordPress should be including by default, Alex had released a plugin last year, called 1 Click to Stop & Start Plugins. All you have to do is to download the single php file, upload it to your plugins folder, and activate it in your ‘Plugins’ page.

By then, you should see a ‘Deactivate All Plugins’ button at the bottom of your ‘Plugins’ page. The next time you want to deactivate all your plugins, be it for version upgrading or troubleshooting your WordPress problem, just click on the ‘Deactivate All Plugins’ and pooof, everything is deactivated.

When everything is deactivated, it means that the 1 Click to Stop & Start Plugins
is deactivated as well. Now after you are done with your upgrading and stuff, you can activate all your plugins you last deactivated again, but simply activating the 1 Click to Stop & Start Plugins plugin again. It remembers your last deactivated plugins.

Plugin page | Download 1 Click Stop & Start Plugins

WordPress 2.3.3 has been released today to fix a flaw in the xmlrpc.php

WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. A flaw was found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog.

There are also a few other minor bug fixes in this version, but if you wouldn’t mind them and just want the security fix, then download just the xmlrpc.php (just 60KB) and replace it with your existing copy.

Are you one of the victim being slapped by Google in the last two most recent PageRank update, for writing paid posts on your WordPress powered blog? And now, you wanted to be a good boy again, not writing anymore paid post, but not knowing what to do to all the old paid posts?

You have three choices, just leave it there, or insert “nofollow” to every single link you have in all your paid post, manually, and the last one, use a plugin namely NoSpamLinksPlugin to do the job.

The plugin consist of only one php file. After uploading it to your wp-content/plugins directory, you can configure it right way in your Options panel. Assuming you have a category for paid posts, you can nofollow all the links in that particular category easily.

Just select your paid posts category in the All No Follow section, and enter how old the posts should be before the nofollow is added. Voila, all your paid posts links are now nofollow-ed.

Majority of bloggers display their feed subscribers count using FeedBurner’s small chicklet. It is so simple to place one on your blog, you can even choose the color of your choice as well as changing the text inside the chicklet to something else.

But in case you prefer having more control on how to show off your feed subscriber’s count, a WordPress plugin called Feed Count will definitely help. As big as you want, whatever font you like, just anything that you can do with CSS.

Example:

There can be many reasons to style your own feed count, trying to stand out of the crowd that is using the chicklet, or in my case, enlarging the feed count to let everyone know there are only a whooping 6 subscribers at the moment, making visitors wanna take part in increasing the number.

All you have to do to style your own feed count is to download the WordPress plugin here and install it, activate the Awareness API in your FeedBurner control panel, and do the styling. A sample CSS is available at the plugin page.

Happy styling and good bye FeedBurner Chicklet!

A whole day search of Apple WordPress themes returns 11 of them, including 5 MacOS theme, 4 iPhone themes and two others. Except the last two themes, all others are based on the interface of Apple products—those MacOS themes are made to resemble the system, while the iPhones are using the device as the main template.

If you know any other good Apple WordPress themes that are not in the list below, kindly let me know so that they will be included as well.

MacOS

1. Retro MacOS [Demo]

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