Joe’s Freeware Finds

Like the New Theme?

If you like the New Theme… Andreas04 3.1 by me, you can download it by clicking the image above.

Free… No Charge… Gratis…

Installation is pretty standard:

Download the zip file

Unzip the zip file

Upload the Andreas04 file and all it’s contents to wp-content/themes

Done!

I hope you enjoy the dark side…

Recovered from Google Cache from 2007/12/07

June 3rd, 2008 Posted by Joe | Back-up, WordPress | no comments

We’re Moving To My Computer Back in Service

You may have noticed I haven’t really been posting much here as of late. The reason being, I started another Blog and it is a lot more comprehensive in the How To’s of installation and use of many of the programs I use.

I also don’t want to duplicate the information on two blogs when one (on it’s own domain) will suffice. It is my Computer Consulting Blog.

My Computer Back in Service

So, if you want more of the type of information provided here, skoot on over to My Computer Back in Service. I promise you won’t be disappointed. Hopefully, you will find the information even more helpful.

Recovered from Google Cache from 2007/09/17 I left the Highlights in to let you know how I found an OLD and LOST Post.

June 3rd, 2008 Posted by Joe | Back-up, Publishing | no comments

Post Preview Fix for WP v2.2 and v2.2.1

I don’t know about you, but I missed my inline Post Preview, and thought the extra step of clicking preview>> and having it open in another window was totally ridiculous. Not to mention unnecessary.

You need to be comfortable working in the background code of your post.php, but it is fairly simple to do. Go to the wp-admin folder on your server, find your post.php and copy & paste the code below.

Here’s the steps you will need to know…

Open up your post.php file from your wp-admin directory.
Navigate to approximately line 63 and find the following line of code:include('edit-form-advanced.php');
Directly underneath that line, add the following code:?> <div id='preview‘ class=’wrap’> <h2 id=”preview-post“><?php _e(’Post Preview (updated when post is saved)’); ?></h2> <iframe src=”<?php echo clean_url(apply_filters(’preview_post_link’, add_query_arg(’preview‘, ‘true’, get_permalink($post->ID)))); ?>” width=”100%” height=”600″ ></iframe> </div> <?php
Save your changes to post.php.

There, Done… Simple, huh?

Recovered from Google Cache from 2007/08/01 I left the highhights so you could see the terms I used to find the Cache file.

June 3rd, 2008 Posted by Joe | Back-up, WordPress | no comments

WPAds by theSandbox

WPAds is a Wordpress plugin for showing and rotating ads in your blog. You only have to define the ad positions and the ads you want to rotate in each position, and WPAds will serve your ads randomly. WPAds can show contextual ads (ie, Google AdSense, Yahoo Publishers Network, etc) and also image banners.

This should freshen up and change up your ads nicely. It could help alleviate “Ad Blindness” of your readers by providing them something different instead of the same old ads in the same place all the time.

Technorati Tags: WPAds, Advertising, Plugins

May 23rd, 2007 Posted by Joe | Organization, Plug-ins, Promotion | no comments

WordPress Tiger Administration Plug-in

WordPress Tiger Administration is a plug-in that changes the look and feel of the WP Admin page. I think it makes it a little easier to read and navigate your way around and use WP Admin.

Compatible with Safari and FireFox. Will Not work with current versions of Internet Explorer.

Technorati Tags: Tiger Administration, Pluging, Admin

May 16th, 2007 Posted by Joe | Enhancements, Plug-ins | no comments

DoFollow, A WordPress Plug-in

DoFollow is an easy to installÂ WordPress plugin that disablesÂ the the automatic “nofollow” that is standard with all WordPress Blogs. If you want to reward your readers who comment, this will allow their link to be scraped by the search engines and credited to them. You can also set a time frame for allowing DoFollow and revert to the standard “nofollow” to help avoid Spam.

It is suggested you already have good Spam protection like Akismet or something similar.

Technorati Tags: DoFollow, Comments, Links, Plugins

May 9th, 2007 Posted by Joe | Commenting, Plug-ins | no comments

WordPress Plug-in Comment Timeout

Comment Timeout is a WordPress plugin that allows you to selectively close comments on your blog to help reduce spam. There are three ways in which it can do this:

It lets you close comments on old entries that do not have an ongoing, active discussion.
It examines your spam queue and your Bad Behavior logs to let you close comments and trackbacks across the board to troublesome IP addresses.
It allows you to reject comments that contain too many hyperlinks, or links in BBCode format.

I have found this very useful. Instead of me having to go in and manually change the status of comments, I have it done automatically. Akismet doesn’t catch All the Spam and this helps a lot.

Technorati Tags: Comment Timeout, Spam, Comments, plugins

May 2nd, 2007 Posted by Joe | Commenting, Plug-ins | no comments

WP-Ban 1.10

WP-Ban 1.10 … Ban users by IP or host name from visiting your WordPress’s blog. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP/host name trys to visit you blog. There will be statistics recordered on how many times they attemp to visit your blog. It allows wildcard matching too.

Good to help block those Spammers who get through your regular Spam Blocker.

Technorati Tags: WP-Ban, WordPress, Plugins

April 25th, 2007 Posted by Joe | Anti-Spam, Plug-ins | no comments