Posts for February, 2006

Feb 28, 2006

End of Blogging?

Slashdot.org has a post about a second look at blogging by Jason Fry. It was triggered by an editorial in Chicago Tribune about the beginning of fall of blogging. Jason Fry makes a fair argument to say that fading of blogging as business does not mean end of blogging itself. [Continue]

Feb 26, 2006

Logahead - New Blogging Engine

Hours after I write about Wordpress admin theme and writing being part of the admin interface, I read about Logahead. A brand new blogging engine with a ‘keep it simple’ philosophy. Designed from the ground-up to be fully buzzword compliant (AJAX, RSS, Web 2.0 - it’s all there), logahead lets you effortlessly do what blogs were invented for: Put your words on the web. [Continue]

Feb 26, 2006

Wordpress - Common Theme For Frontend and Admin

This is something I had been meaning to write about for a long time. Probably this can be considered to be part of my consideration of Wordpress as a CMS. But even from usability point of view this can make sense. [Continue]

Feb 25, 2006

Wordpress - Categories As Tags?

The post about Global Tags encourages Wordpress users to use categories as tags. Tags are extremely important for making content available and also to connect the blogging community. Implementing tags as categories is great, but using categories only for tags can kill many other possibilities. [Continue]

Feb 25, 2006

admin_page_hooks

The Wordpress administration uses this global variable. Type of different plugin pages is stored in admin_page_hooks. This variable should not be used by the plugin authors directly, it is internally used for adding menu pages to the administration menu. [Continue]

Feb 25, 2006

Wordpress Global Variables

Usage of global variables in Wordpress is easy syntax, but it also makes breaking of functionalities easier while using them. This is an effort to document all the global variables used by Wordpress and any possible documentation for it to enable wiser use in plugins and templates. A generic rule to follow while using global variables in plugins and themes is that values should only be read from them and they should never be written. [Continue]

Feb 25, 2006

wp_object_cache

This caches Wordpress data like options, user data, pages, etc. It should be noted that it is used only if cache is enabled. It is an instance of class WP_Object_Cache defined in [wordpress root folder]/wp-includes/cache.p [Continue]

Feb 25, 2006

wp_query

This is the root of the loop. It handles all the intricacies of a Wordpress request. It is an instance of WP_Query class. [Continue]

Feb 25, 2006

wpdb

This is the variable that interfaces with the backend of Wordpress. It is used to add/delete/modify elements in the database used by Wordpress. It is an instance of the wpdb class defined in [wordpress root folder]/wp-includes/wp-db.p [Continue]

Feb 23, 2006

Flick Animation with CSS

Animation has always meant a resource consuming activity, either the size is too big and requires binary formats like Flash or GIF or client side scripting like JavaScript to be run. All of them depend on the user having installed or activated a feature in the browser. You providing such content does not always guarantee its delivery to the user. [Continue]