Category Archives: Wordpress

How to Make your RSS Feeds Pop in WordPress

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I got this idea from reading Darren Rowse’s entry, How to Make Your RSS Feeds POP Using Images

The hack will add a nice graphic to accompany your RSS feeds to make it “POP”.

First open the wp-rss2.php file located in the root directory of your WordPress Installation.

Find a line that have something like this.

<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=<?php bloginfo_rss('version'); ?> </generator>
<language><?php echo get_option('rss_language'); ?<

Then add these lines directly below it.


<image>
    <url>http://yourwebsite.com/img/feedpop.png</url>
    <title>Your website name  </title>
    <link>http://yourwebsite.com/</link>
</image>



upload the file back to the webserver, and you shall have an RSS feed with a nice graphic on it.

example : http://blog.fakap.net/rss.xml


 Why dont you use WordPress Plugins

Using excessive plugins may slow down your WordPress blog installation, upgrades tends to be troublesome on plugins-ladden WordPress blog.


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WordPress Source Code Syntax Plugin

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In order to enhance the user experience of Tipvista blog readers, I’ve installed Dean Lee’s Source Code syntax highlighting.

The plugin is pretty cool for coders and developers who like to share their codes with their readers. Among syntax it support are

  • Actionscript,Ada,Apache,asm,asp,bash
  • c,cfm,c++,csharp,css
  • delphi,div,freebasic,html4,idl
  • java5,javascript,lisp,lua
  • mathlab,mysql,nsis
  • oracle,pascal,perl,php,python
  • qbasic,ruby,smalltalk,sql
  • tcl,text,vb,vb.net,xml
  • and few others syntax

Here’s how the plugin look like in WordPress :

//
//print information about your php installation
//
phpinfo();

Pretty cool eh?

[tags]wordpress,plugins,syntax,code,php,programming[/tags]

Backup WordPress automatically with WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup

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A short post, but today I would like to share you two WordPress plugins that could save your blog’s (and possibly your) life.


WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup helps you to backup your WordPress files periodically to your email. You probably already have WP-DB-Backup If you’re using WordPress 2.x, I hope that you would have already utilised this plugin as it can be handy to backup your WordPress installations.

WP-Cron takes the backup process further by automating WP-DB-Backup job to send daily wordpress backup to your emails. Although this seems redundant most of the time, rest assured it will be worth it when your Web Hosting fs*ck on you.

For this to work, I suggest that you send your wordpress backup to a gmail account since gmail account is able to store gigabytes of data, so your wordpress backup will be save there should you need it.

You can download WP-DB-Backup and WP-Cron from http://www.skippy.net/blog/plugins/

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