Archive For November, 2008

For quite awhile now, I’ve been monitoring a specific blog post from May 15th, 2007 which is a tutorial on how to migrate from Drupal 5 to WordPress 2. Many things have changed since then between both pieces of software and thus, the scripts provided on the site will not work.

Every now and then, someone publishes a comment that contains a link to an updated version of the script to work with newer versions of Drupal and WordPress. DovDox is the latest blog to publish an updated portion of the script albeit with a caveat.

Taking my usual hacksaw-and-duct-tape approach, I simply…

In this episode:

We’re joined by Mark Jaquith, WordPress Ninja at b5media and core developer.
We discuss the release of WordPress 2.6.5, which fixes for a very obscure security bug and three more bugs.
We warn of a bogus WordPress 2.6.4 version out there.
We congratulate Ben Dunkle and Verena Segert, winners of the Project Icon contest.
We weigh in [...]

New Plugins

Add to Feed

Add to Feed is a feed enhancement plugin that allows you to easily add a copyright notice and custom text/HTML to your WordPress blog feed. The custom text can be entered before and/or after the content of your blog post.

Amazon Plugin

Amazon shop plugin that allows a blogger to add products with Amazon associate ID embedded in it and earn revenue by showing Amazon products right into the blog posts.

Related Blog Links

This WordPress plugin will display the blog links related to your posts and pages.

Techytube XHTML

This plugin allows you to embed YouTube videos on your blog.

ZD YouTube…

Michael Manfre has created a plugin for Textpattern . You can download the plugin from his website and have protection from the spam. Thanks Michael!

I will present you a modification I did to my own forum:

You can reply to your visitor messages from your own profile.

I didnt create a plugin, so you will need to do 2 simple templates modifications and upload 2 files.

Installation
1. Upload the files to a folder "visitorReply" (you must create it) inside your forum folder (there is a success messag ……..

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Attached Images

screen.jpg (43.5 KB)

Attached Files

visitorReply.zip (1.8 KB)

This release fixes a couple of issues and adds a temporary fix for the problem reported by Julian A. Rodriguez ( [nulledcore.com] ) which got confirmed now.Therefore we urge all Phorum users to upgrade as soon as possible.You can download it from our downloads page.This is the excerpt from the changelog:
2008-10-06 10:13 ts77
* removed "SET CHARACTER SET" query to solve some mysteries in
charset support (thanks to Chris who brought this up
[www.phorum.org] )

2008-10-06 10:03 mmakaay
* Fixed #806: possible XSS leak plugged. This was reported as a
security vulnerability, however we were never able to produce…

This mod will add the top server load statistics in your vBulletin admincp (if your server installation allows execution of programs via PHP)

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Attached Images

top2.jpg (85.9 KB)

Attached Files

product-server_load.xml (1.8 KB)

Guests can use quick reply
by Dean Clatworthy

[size=3][size=1][size=2]Credit goes to zylstra on this one. Unfortunately his mod hasn’t worked for a while since human verification for guests was introduced. It was an easy fix so here’s a [i]working[/I ……..

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Attached Files

product-guestquickreply.xml (1.9 KB)

Episode 31 of WordPress Weekly featured a special 1 hour 26 minute interview with none other than Lisa Sabin Wilson, the author of WordPress For Dummies. Keith and I grilled Lisa on the topics of:

Writing a book for a piece of software which has an extremely fast development cycle
How different versions affect the publishing of the book
WordPress For Dummies The Second Edition
Lisa’s thoughts on WordPress 2.7
Lisa’s explanation on permalinks and slugs
Lisa’s take on premium themes versus free themes
much, much, more.

Keith and I really enjoyed our time with Lisa and wish her the best…

Dear all,

i need your help:

see at first:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp…&postcount=228

How can i initialise the groups,to avoid at least for each post to set the groups which are not allowed to show the hidden content ???

Any idea ? ask in the admin menue or predifine in the groups in the small popup asking field ?
I am trying to contact them and ……..

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TGW – DD Mouseover Tabs Menu

Hack Version: 0.0.1
Compatible vB version: 3.6.x , 3.7.x , 3.8.x

DESCRIPTION:
This is a Mouseover Tabs Menu, code developed by Dynamic Drive for use on personal and commercial websites (Special thanks to my Dynamic Drive for allowing me to use this script! Please see here for approval –> [url="http://www.dynamicd ........

[b]For the full text, visit vBulletin.org[/b]

Attached Files

TGW-DD-MouseoverTabsMenu.zip (8.3 KB)

Description:
Very simple modification created in-house for our forums a while back that’s been working well to handle post spam for us. (For PM spam, see our other plugin). I figured it might help some others out there, so I’m sharing the code for you to use as well — but keep in mind that since it was an in-house tool, ……..

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Attached Images

archivetripwirereport.jpg (112.0 KB)

Attached Files

product-archivetripwire.xml (4.2 KB)

Journalized v2

Journalized is a one, two or three column theme available in six different themes, with threaded and paged comments with an administration interface.

Wasteland

It’s a 5 Column (main content, 2 sidebars and 2 top sections), widget-ready fixed width theme in soothing Creme and Brown colors featuring an author box, author info page, gravatars and with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates.

Underground

Fixed width, three columns, widget ready theme

Weblog Magazine Theme

Widget ready, three columns, fixed width theme with adsense / advert ready areas which are easily edited for ease of use and monetization. Available in 10 colors.

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This is not really a mod because there is nothing to install. Only one file to upload to vbulletin directory. But anyway ..

Global Array Examiner is a tool that assists vBulletin developers by exposing the contents of global arrays like $_SERVER, $_COOKIE, $vbulletin->userinfo etc using a nice table representation.

To install, simply upload the attached gae.php to your vbulletin direc ……..

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Attached Images

gae.gif (11.2 KB)

Attached Files

gae.php (5.5 KB)

XIMinc Hosting has upgraded its server and improved networking setup.  The YaBB website should now load faster and have less networking issues.  We apologize for the downtime you may have experienced on the site tonight during this transition.With these major changes, I’d like to remind you about XIMinc’s sponsorship of the free YaBB project.  Every donation, YaBB license, advertisement on YaBB’s website, or XIMinc hosting account goes towards supporting the project via hosting expenses.www.ximinc.com