Saturday, March 13, 2010

Create Wordpress Thumbnails Automatically

September 29, 2009 by Josh Highland  
Filed under php, tutorials, wordpress

Create Wordpress Thumbnails Automatically

WordPress has the ability to allow post authors to assign custom fields to a post. This arbitrary extra information is known as meta-data. This meta-data can be used by theme authors to do some pretty cool things.
The theme I am currently using allows for a custom field named “thumb”. If you create the “thumb” custom [...]

How the notPopular.com podcast is made

How the notPopular.com podcast is made

Some of you blog reading people might know that I have a fairly well known podcast called the “notPop podcast”, that centers around music news and the activities of my site, notPopular.com. for almost 2 years now @xFLORIDAx and I have been churning these podcasts out and having a lot of fun doing it.
From time [...]

Manually reset your WordPress password

Manually reset your WordPress password

It doesn’t matter what application your working with, losing your password is always a pain in the ass. Luckly if you are working with wordpress (man, I blog a lot about wordpress these days), on your server and you have access to the MySql database, resetting your password manually is a snap.

Login to your PhpMyAdmin
Select [...]

WordPress Security

January 31, 2009 by Josh Highland  
Filed under software, tutorials, wordpress

WordPress Security

I love WordPress. Of all the blogging and web content management systems I have tried WordPress wins hands down. I’ve moved several of my clients sites and my personal sites to the WordPress platform over the last few months.
As a web developer with a checkered past, security is always a concern of mine when using [...]

Modifying MimboPro to Add Paged Navigation To Category Pages

December 8, 2008 by Josh Highland  
Filed under hacks, internet, php, tutorials, web 2.0, wordpress

Modifying MimboPro to Add Paged Navigation To Category Pages

Recently I have been doing a lot of work with Wordpress. I love Wordpress. one of the things I like most about Wordpress is the plugins and themes.
I recently bought a copy of the MimboPro theme. Mimbo is clean and very professional. More of a CMS theme then a blogging theme, prefect for what I [...]

Wordpress iPhone app

Wordpress iPhone app

I love wordpress as a blogging platform an I love the iPhone as a mobile computing solution. Yesterday I saw that there was a wordpress app avaliable for the iPhone, so I had to try it out.
This is a post from the wordpress app, and so far it’s easy to use. I don’t know how [...]

WordPress 2.5 image upload problem : SOLVED

March 30, 2008 by Josh Highland  
Filed under hacks, internet, php, software, tutorials, wordpress

WordPress 2.5 image upload problem : SOLVED

This afternoon I upgraded my blog to the latest version of wordpress, 2.5. The install went great and it was simple to do. I didn’t realize that I had any problems until I went to make a blog post and upload an image. When I tried to upload, I was greeted with the following:

Something was [...]