Jan
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Peng Zhang on January 8th, 2011
I decided to play with the two popular WordPress plugins to see how they meet my needs. Here are some facts at the time of this writing: WPML Multilingual CMS: downloads: 199,894 qTranslate: downloads: 190,903 Here is purely my personal opinion: Pros for qTranslate provides easy one-click buttons on admin menu to localise the admin [...]
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Oct
16
Peng Zhang on October 16th, 2009
When the plugin Maintenance Mode 4.3 by Michael Wohrer was activated, as a site administrator, I had access to the administration backend, but when I tried to use the upload feature under Media Library, after selecting a jpeg file, it appeared that the file was uploaded but then it displayed the “Site in Maintenance Mode” [...]
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Here is the process that I followed to create a clone of a WordPress site. In other words, I had to create a site that lives on the same server at http://www.theexampledomain.com/newsite/, based on the original site that lives at http://www.theexampledomain.com/originalsite/. Back up the original site’s database using PhpMyAdmin; this will create a SQL dump [...]
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Sep
20
Peng Zhang on September 20th, 2009
WordPress 2.8.0 – 2.8.4 has changed its core files that a previously working hack to exclude categories from being displayed in the Categories widget in the sidebar does not work any more. There are a couple of ways to exclude a category or categories from being displayed in the Categories widget in the sidebar. This [...]
Sep
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Peng Zhang on September 19th, 2009
Here are top 20 movers of all WordPress plugins that have risen in their ranks based on their number of downloads in the week starting September 13, 2009. The list excluded a few that are not listed as compatible up to 2.8 and later, or not rated above 4 out of 5. Google Doc Embedder [...]
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It’s easy to find the most downloaded plugins from WordPress’ plugin directory. The aim here is to find a way to discover the gems that are recently added to the plugins directory. The number of total downloads is an important index to how popular a plugin is. But it will not help you to find [...]
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