WordPress: Add custom columns to media library March 17th 2011

You can easily add extra columns to the WordPress back-end Admin lists for a better overview of your posts, pages, media and comments.

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, its easy to add them with two minor additions to your WordPress theme’s functions.php file.

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WordPress 3.0: Minor CSS issue with “W3 Total Cache” June 20th 2010

The WordPress 3.0 update was OK; I only found a minor CSS issue with the W3 Total Cache plugin that improves WordPress performance.

One of my hosting accounts limits PHP memory, so for these blogs I need to deactive 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: Redirection plugin great for moving house June 3rd 2010

The Redirection WordPress plugin manages 301 redirections, keeps track of 404 errors and tidies up any loose ends your site may have.

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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