Lazyest Gallery home page (Lazyest.keytwo.net) suddenly went up, though only allowing to download gallery packages. Good news are that the new Lazyest Gallery v 0.9.6-beta is available for download (together with previous stable 0.9.5 release). Quick look at read-me file revealed added support for widgets in new release and minor bug fixes. Also, author removed Lazyest Gallery version from footer and Lazyest Gallery version from HTML code (for security reasons)

Shoutbox Wordspew (and Wordspew Extended) is absolutely open for spam bots. Last three days they attacked me every 2-3 minutes. I was deleting spam and minutes later I got next 6 spam comments in shoutbox. This scenario went on for hours, eventually forcing me to remove Wordspew from my site completely. Spammers submit messages directly through Wordspew routines which add submitted data to database, bypassing submission form. Even if you completely remove submission form you will still get spam in your shoutbox. Switching Wordspew to “registered only user ” does nothing - you still get spam. Even deactivating plugin doesn’t stop them. In other words they have you all possible ways submitting “Keep up working!” with a bunch of links. All they need is Wordspew.php file in plugins folder. (more…)

One of the Biggest advantages of a free blogging platform is its huge community and army of third party code delelopers. Writing plugin is extremely easy in WordPress and I think that causes (together with extreme popularity) the tendency of growing number of problems when using plugins. Bad coding habits of inexperienced coders multiply the mess.

These problems include cases when two plugins just wont work together, or bad coding causes php engine errors/warnings which may not be noticed until you check your error logs through cpanel. In latter case if errors/warnings generated become a substantial flaw, your hosting provider may even suspend your acc. Also, keep in mind that if php generated warnings are rare in your case, they may dramatically increase in number with grow in traffic flow. So my first tip and recommendation: (more…)

One of the things I wanted from visitor counters was ability to do this in real time (without page reload). Some time ago I found Rtoc (real time online counter) using Ajax technology. Developer writes - ” RTOC is a free statistics script that uses flatfiles to store data. It includes an online users counter as well as a unique hits counter that stores unique hits for that day as well as a total. It uses JavaScript to update itself dynamically, so that all stats are in real-time! It has been tested and working on both Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 6 web browsers.” (more…)

Coding Widgets is very simple. I already showed how to Widgetize third party plugin by simply inserting code into functions.php file. Here I decided to present an example of Adsense Widget coding. This time the Widget will be standalone. (more…)

Long awaited feature which I missed since my move to WordPress from Joomla now materialized. I’m talking about Widgets. The comfort of moving around, positioning and enabling/disabling items on your sidebar(s) through admin side is the most useful feature of any good CMS. And I was sure that it is just a matter of time for this feature implementation in WordPress.

I expected this in WordPress as a core functionality feature, but it came as a plugin. Good news is that “If adoption goes well, we’ll consider rolling it into the next version of WordPress.” Let’s look closer at widgets. (more…)

How to implement shoutbox as a WordPress page? (Due to spam I removed shoutbox from my frontpage, temporarily, I hope) Generally you should do two things. First: Make page template for shoutbox and create page (through wordpress admin side). Second: Make some tuning for shoutbox css file. (more…)

What is bbPress? If you are experienced WordPress user then you most likely know what bbPress is. For newbie, as bbPress developers’ state: “bbPress shares developers and architecture with the well-known WordPress blogging software and the genesis of the project was in WordPress’ support forums which are a good example of a full implementation of bbPress. bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed”. So It’s designed to be small and efficient and with built-in tagging support.

And what bbPress is not: “Most software in this space is focused on features like avatars or file attachment and if that’s what you’re interested in, bbPress probably isn’t for you. We’re focused on keeping things as small and light as possible for the explicit purpose of creating a community around support.” (more…)

Lazyest SlideShow Function is now available as a WordPress PlugIn. Presenting this function as a plugin has many advantages. The most obvious one is that more people may use it - no need for copy/paste and no accidental mess up with Lazyest Gallery core file. And it is easier to maintain the code, as well.

Lazyest Thumbs SLideshow plugin rotates random image thumbs from Lazyest Gallery with fading effect. Driven by JavaScript engine. Fully customizable through admin panel: number of random images, ability to choose Portrait, Landscape or both image types to show, loops to run, fading delay, CSS styles and other settings are specified through admin page. (more…)

SlideShow function for Lazyest-gallery updated and available: Lazyest SlideShow Function. I wonder if anybody uses it. Anyway, I post this small update. Background color parameter added. Instruction and function code is inside txt file. Copy and paste function code into lazyest-gallery.php file. Call and parameters usage described in file.

UPDATE: This function now transformed into WordPress PlugIn. For more info and download go to Lazyest Thumbs SlideShow PlugIn post.