The Personal Site of Dan Masters

Category: WordPress

  • FAlbum Recent Pictures in Side Bar

    I recently got an e-mail requesting how I got the recent photos in my side bar on my The Masters Family blog. This was done with using the FAlbum WordPress Plug-in By Elijah Cornell. I really dig this plug-in and subsequently it is responsible for me having 3 separate Flickr…

  • Getting into my Niche – Blogging with WordPress

    Well after the second full month of blogging here at idano.net I have decided to slide into my niche and make it official. This blog will now specifically be about blogging with WordPress. That seems to be all I talk about anyway. Also, that seems to be what people want…

  • Fixing WordPress Performance Issues with WP-Cache Plug-in

    I have been having performance issues over at 2 of my other sites – themastersfamily.net and themastershouse.net which are both run with WordPress. Pages were taking up to 30 seconds to load each. I put several calls into the hosting company that I am with but they did not see…

  • WordPress Desktop Client Search – Ecto 2 Review

    Ecto has recently come out with a new version that peeked my interest. You may remember in post – WordPress Desktop Client Search I gave Ecto a because I needed to install .Net 2.0 to run it. I still take the stance that I do not like to have to…

  • Formating Fix for the Subscribe to Comments Plug-in

    I found a temporary fix for the formatting for the Subscribe to Comments WordPress Plug-in. I was forced into fixing it because I was trying to implement the plug-in on another web site and the formatting was broken there too. You need to open the subscribe-to-comments.php file and go to…

  • Subscribe to Comments WordPress Plug-in

    I have added a new plug-in the idano.net web site which I think is really cool. Now you are able to subscribe to comments on posts. I had seen this on a few other sites and really like it. Basically, you enter the usual comment info – Name, Email, URL,…

  • WordPress, Zoundry, and Lightbox 2 – Imaging Bliss

    Update 06.01.06 – As cool as this plug-in looks I had to disable it on this web site. The reason for this is that it is dreadfully slow and really impacted the loading of ALL of my pages. Therefore you will not be able to see the LightBox effects on…

  • WordPress Desktop Client Search – Bleezer Review

    Well there is another Blog Desktop Client on the block. It’s name is Bleezer. This software is a little different the your average program as clicking on the .exe file in the download folder actually launches the program as opposed to installing it. I guess this would have it’s advantages…

  • Most Popular Posts Plug-in

    I have added a new plug-in that calculates the most popular post on your blog calculated by visits to the post and comments. The plug-in is called Popularity Contest by Alex King. You can now see the popularity of each post under the title and next to the time stamp.…