While you are reading this post, I’ll probably be in a long airplane trip to Cuba (guess how I am going to spend the hours onboard…). Now let’s imagine I am inside this plane, and it crashes… I will probably die, and if not, I surely won’t be able to blog for a while. Anyway, … How to live forever
In the last times we saw an interesting diffusion of mobile handsets in the market, just think about the iPhone alone sold 4 million units in 200 days. That’s why a lot of big sites such as Google and Facebook feature a mobile version. What about a your blog? MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that … Optimize your blog on mobile handsets with MobilePress
A PROgrammer’s life is like being on holiday all the time, because there’s nothing better than doing the job you like the most – and making a living out of it. Anyway, sometimes I have a real holiday trip. One of the most interesting things about blogging is you can do it from everywhere, as … Blogging when you’re on holiday
Having a nice and original blog theme is very important if you want to distinguish from the crowd. Unfortunately, designing a theme from scratch can be difficult due to a lot of variables to consider: header, sidebars, buttons, css and more. There are a lot of free and not free themes available on the web, … Design quality WordPress themes in a minute with Artisteer
During the weekend I played with the blog header. In my opinion bloggers understimate the power of a rich header, and in most cases you will see only the blog title and description. I am going to show you what I did on my header, why I did it and how can you do it … New blog header: how did I make it
When you are running a blog for some time, you will have more and more contents to display, and the same space where to make them fit. That’s why a lot of latest WordPress themes feature tabbed navigation to save space. This screenshot refers to Linoluna theme, but there are thousands more using this kind … Adding tabs easily in your WordPress theme
Finally I found some time to fix the WordPress MochiAds plugin and make a working beta. Please notice it’s just a working beta, install it on your own risk on an empty blog. There are some interesting features already developed, and a million more features to do. Also, I am releasing the plugin, not the … WordPress MochiAds plugin beta released
Do you know what is this dashboard? It’s the new WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane†dashboard, and I am here to tell you this next-gen WordPress installation worked fine. This version has a lot of new features as you can see at the official announcement, but the one you will like the most is this could be … The last time I’m upgrading WordPress
Some time ago I blogged about Showing MochiAds leaderboards in any Flash movie or web page with a script made by myself that displayed MochiAds leaderboards on your site. Yesterday MochiAds guys released a widget that accepts a game slug and partner ID and will display all the available leaderboards for the given game. The … Create a WordPress MochiAds Leaderboards Widget
If you followed the Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress series you know I am about to release a WP Arcade theme with automatic game submission thanks to a plugin that parses MochiAds feed. It’s time to open the beta to the public and make the site run. It’s time to play, rate … Triqui.com WordPress arcade now in beta
When your blog starts becoming popular, people will visit, read and talk about it and your blog will have comments pingbacks, and trackbacks. While everybody knows what is a comment, I am going to explain pingbacks and trackbacks. From WordPress Codex Glossary: Pingback lets you notify the author of an article if you link to … Separate comments from trackbacks in your WordPress blog
Today I tested the beta plugin I introduced you in the Creating some hype… post and it worked fine. It successfully imported all games and now I am looking for a good theme to finetune to transform the blog into an arcade site (do you know any good theme?) Before asking you to test the … Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress – step 6
