Category: WordPress
Posted by John Sundberg in Tutorials, WordPress Monday, 1 March 2010 View Comments
If you’re using a self-hosted version of WordPress you may have noticed that WordPress is keeping copies of every post revision you make. While this can be helpful in rolling a post back to an earlier version, the number of revisions can quickly get out of hand. These revisions are stored in your database, and once a post is published you probably don’t need them anymore. There are a few plugins that can help you manage these revisions, but in my opinion, if you can do this without adding another plugin, so much the better.
There’s a lot of information on the web about this topic, and I filtered through it recently and came up with this solution.
Posted by John Sundberg in Joomla Extensions, Joomla!, Tutorials, WordPress Friday, 8 January 2010 View Comments
2010 is now one week old. Have you updated the copyright date in your website(s) yet?
When I was updating the copyright date in our website and our clients’ websites this week it occurred to me that there should be a way for the date to be updated automatically, and there is IF your website is dynamic and uses PHP like Joomla or WordPress does.
While implementing these changes I encountered three different ways various Joomla templates (and a WordPress theme) handle the copyright information. There are probably more possibilities, but the basic coding principle is going to apply in each situation, so you may need to put some thought into making this work if your website is set-up differently than one of the three options I’m going to describe.
Also, this tutorial is exactly that, a tutorial. In no way should this information be construed as legal advice in any form. I’d also recommend making a fresh backup of your website (files and database) before making any significant changes. Having said that, here’s how to do it.
Posted by John Sundberg in Joomla Extensions, Joomla!, WordPress Wednesday, 23 December 2009 View Comments
When I built this website earlier this year I used a Joomla template from RocketTheme called “Affinity.” If I remember correctly it was one of RT’s first templates that was designed to be integrated with K2, the “super-component” from JoomlaWorks. JoomlaWorks makes some great extensions, and K2 is one of them.
According to their website, K2 is the “powerful content component for Joomla! with CCK-like features…[and it] provides an out-of-the box integrated solution featuring rich content forms for items (think of Joomla! articles with additional fields for article images, videos, image galleries and attachments), nested-level categories, tags, comments, a system to extend the item base form with additional fields (similar to CCK for those acquainted with Drupal), a powerful plugin API to extend item, category and user forms, ACL, frontend editing, sub-templates and a lot more!”
K2, WordPress and blogging
I’m convinced I haven’t begun to tap into the possible uses for K2, but the primary reason I started using it was to “power” this blog. At the time WordPress wasn’t a viable option because the customization necessary to make a WordPress theme match the Affinity template was far beyond my capabilities. I was a little disappointed that I wouldn’t be able to use WordPress since I’ve been blogging on a couple blogs at WordPress.com since 2008, and several hundred posts and a hundred thousand (or so) words later I’ve become rather familiar with WordPress as a blogging platform.
But like I said earlier, it really wasn’t an option at the time so I gave K2 an honest try and managed to produce sixteen blog posts on various topics. To its credit, K2 is light-years ahead of using a bare-bones Joomla blog, but in my opinion it simply can’t match WordPress for features and blogger usability.
