By Jim on July 15, 2010
There’s a lot of buzz right now in the WordPress community about the fact that Chris Pearson’s does not distribute his Thesis theme for WordPress under the same GPL license under which WordPress is distributed. There was a large discussion yesterday over Twitter between Chris and Matt Mullenweg, the owner of Automattic, the company that [...]
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By Jim on December 14, 2009
Available on the DailyBlogTips website is a theme called StudioPress_Red. The theme uses a custom query to list the pages in the site navigation while applying a ‘current page’ class for styling the nav bar. The navigation code sets up a nav scheme with the traditional ‘Home’ button followed by the listing of pages. This [...]
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Bulk Clean-up of ‘Approved’ Spam Comments
By Jim on December 5, 2009
I recently had to clean up the database for a WordPress installation where several thousand spam comments had managed to slip by the filters and get themselves approved. Naturally, going through and marking each individual one as spam would have been a mind-numbing and infuriating process, and there is no ‘Check for Spam’ button in [...]
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