Monthly Archives: March 2008

How to Include Code in WordPress Posts

If you’ve ever tried to insert code into a WordPress post, one of the following has probably happened to you:

  • Your HTML code was rendered as such.
  • WordPress stripped the code from the post entirely.
  • WordPress turned "straight quotes" into “curly quotes” — not good if you want your users copying/pasting code from your blog!

Here’s how to get around these annoying problem and make the code show as-is:

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How to Turn Off WordPress’s Visual Editor

Don’t like WordPress’s visual editor? Turn it off:

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BuddyPress: Turning WordPress into a Social Network

It was announced just yesterday that BuddyPress, a project that aims to turn WordPress MU into a social network, has been acquired by Automattic to help continue its development.

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How to Optimize Your WordPress Database Tables

As time goes on, all the database operations performed on your WordPress tables (which are what store your blog posts and other data) will create what’s called “overhead.” To keep your database running smoothly, you can get rid of this overhead by “optimizing” your tables (similar to defragmenting your hard drive).

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How to Integrate Feedburner into WordPress

Feedburner is a free, Google-owned service that provides great feed statistics and services to bloggers and other feed publishers.

Here’s how to integrate Feedburner with a self-hosted WordPress blog:

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