WordPress custom columns: I can see clearly now March 17th 2011

See at a glance what’s missing in WordPress admin lists

Searching through your WordPress media library for items without “alt” text, caption or description can be time consuming and is error prone, especially if you’ve more than a few images to check. A quick scan could easily reveal what information is missing; if only these three columns were available. Well, as you’ll see, it’s easy to add them with two minor additions to your WordPress theme’s functions.php file.

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WordPress 3.0: Ahead of the game June 20th 2010

WordPress core development outruns my theme and plugins

One of my hosting accounts limits PHP memory, so for these blogs I need to deactivate all plugins before running the automatic update. My other hosting service has enough PHP RAM to not have to do this, which is nice.

All my blogs have now been running WordPress 3.0 in production for a few days and so far I’ve not met any problems with the core product.

One minor issue has been with the CSS minification in the W3 Total Cache plugin. I’m using the latest development version of W3TC but it has an issue with CSS so I’ve disabled minification until I’ve time to look into this further.

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WordPress plugins: Redirection by John Godley June 3rd 2010

Easily manage 301 redirections and 404 not-found errors

If you’re changing your WordPress site or blog structure and moving posts and pages around, then John Godley’s Redirection plugin makes it easy to add 301 redirects to the new canonical definitions. It also catches 404 errors, with an easy way to add redirects for incorrect URLs, common typos etc.

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