Tagged ‘dashboard’

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    Flutter is Not Dead Says Navid, Matt Mullenweg Takes Notice
    Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

    We're heard a lot about Flutter. The Flutter homepage has accumulated something like 1,592 comments since its release—a bewildering array of bug reports, praise, and feature requests—and the now defunct support forum was a mire of temporary solutions and fixes until it was abandoned by its developers and replaced with a Google Group. The only public place that exists for WP hacks like myself to confer about the plugin in its current state is this group, which has recently been beset by spammers. The Freshout guys occasionally post there, but we’ve heard little about progress on the next release of Flutter, even while bug fixes circulate among members of the community.

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    Replacing Search in WordPress with Google’s Custom Search Engine
    Friday, September 4th, 2009

    If you have a ring of web properties that are powered by WordPress, why not link them all together to drive traffic through a custom Google search? WordPress's search engine is notoriously unhelpful because it sorts search results by date instead of relevancy. If you use Google Custom Search, when you search using your souped-up Google Custom Search box, you'll land on the new search template, and Google will load the results (almost instantaneously) in a paginated iframe.

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    35 WordPress Plugins that Get the Job Done: Freelancing Favorites
    Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

    Here's quick list of my favorite WordPress plugins that I've come back to time and time again on client projects. Each of these plugins have withstood the test of time (when it comes to new versions of WordPress), have diligent support in the community, and remain stable to date. I'll be returning to this post from time to time to provide hacks wherever mentioned.