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  2026 readersBack in October, we told you about the new compatibility box that was added to the plugin pages within the repository. However, we’ve learned that this feature has one major drawback which is the crux behind this idea proposed by shinephp. I propose to add the field e.g. ‘Problem description’ required for input if visitor click

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  WordPress Wishes

  3347 readersHappy New Year all! I’m looking forward to what will hopefully be an awesome year, with WordPress and otherwise. I thought I’d take the opportunity to wish-o-wish upon a star and toss out some things I think would be really cool to see happen in the WordPress world. Subscribe To Comments, rebuilt for modern WordPress This

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  Display Separate Counts for Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks

  1845 readersIn WordPress, there are three ways to respond to a post: you can leave a comment, leave a trackback, or just link to the post to create a pingback. When displaying all of the responses to your posts, it’s a good idea to separate the comments from the pingbacks and trackbacks. Uninterrupted comment threads are

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  Nice Way to Encourage Plugin Upgrading

  2111 readersA while back we talked about upgrading plugins. Specifically the All-in-One SEO pack and the controversy surrounding how it turns it self off after (some) updates. This is what that plugin looks like when it needs an updating: Normal look for a plugin that needs updating But W3 Total Cache also needed an upgrading, and this is

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  What’s the best Caching Plugin?

  1695 readersReally nice article running down the major caching plugins, including some ones I have never heard of. I’m a fan of W3 Total Cache myself, having tried about four of them on various sites. I like the CDN integration, the fact that it doesn’t change your URLs, and that it combines file and database caching.

• What Plugin Authors Shouldn’t Do

  2011 readersMark Jaquith has published his tongue in cheek version of guidelines that plugin authors should NOT DO or else the plugin would end up being removed. The list is not comprehensive and does not include all situations in which a plugin would be removed but the advice Mark gives at the end of the post

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  WordPress Tip: Remove nofollow Attributes from Post Content

  1531 readersIf you have posts that include the nofollow attribute on links, you may at some point decide to remove them. By default, WordPress doesn’t insert nofollow attributes in post content, but there are a variety of plugins that will insert nofollow into all links in post content. Or perhaps you have been manually adding nofollow

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  Default Configuration Settings Via Plugin

  1405 readersOne of the things I hear people desiring from WordPress is some kind of system for customized installations. So when you go to install a fresh copy, all the settings are how you like them (among other things). Thomas Scholz has a sweet solution here to get us nearly there. It’s a plugin that you

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  WordPress JSON API Plugin

  2573 readersWordPress already kind of has an XML API. Basically, RSS feeds. WordPress creates feeds for all kinds of stuff: recent posts, comment threads on any Page or Post that has comments, category-specific, tag-specific, and more. The codex covers all this and we’ve also covered creating your own unique feeds that could literally be from any

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  Display Gravatar & Autofill Fields for Previous Commenter

  772 readersWhen someone comments on your site, cookies with the information the entered are saved to their computers. WordPress makes it easy to access that information. In fact, in your comments.php template they are ready-to-go PHP variables you can spit out anywhere you’d like. Let’s take a look. Here are the most important ones, when it comes