Comments on: What Do You Want to Know About WordPress?

By: gfx

gfx — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:07:58 +0000

This is done in a cookie and you are correct, there is no way to remove it without a plugin or without removing the cookie.

By: Brijesh Chauhan

Brijesh Chauhan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:57:02 +0000

Hi Nathan, I have one question about embedded flash object and images.

Currently my theme (at http://brijux.com) has 700 px width for post content. I often embed flash videos to my site. I customize the embed code to fit 700 px of my posts so it can be viewed at the maximum possible size.

The problem comes when I change my theme. Some theme have maximum post width of 600 or 650 px. So in these themes the embedded video (which is 700px wide) floats over other content on the website, mostly covering the side bar. This makes the website look very ugly. The same problems happens with larger image width.

I can hard-code all media to 500px when uploading to prevent from this problem, but that means not utilizing all space for current theme. Is there any way to make this embedded flash video and image “re-size” themselves according to available width of theme?

By: eamills

eamills — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:40:52 +0000

Hey there, been reading your tips for a while. Here’s the deal, I have a blog I need to migrate from the “Soapblox” platform and the guy says he can only give me a MySQL dump of the entire database. How can I import this into WordPress? I’m no SQL expert, are there any ready-made tools for this that you’ve seen? Thanks for any nudges in the right direction.

By: CircleReader

CircleReader — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:35:43 +0000

I’ll second John’s suggestion as well!

By: John

John — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:59:17 +0000

an in depth tutorial on plugin creation would be brilliant. One’s I have stumbled upon thus far have been a bit flowery

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:52:42 +0000

What is your philosophy behind what a theme framework should be?

By: Mayur Somani

Mayur Somani — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:42:20 +0000

Although everyone, including you, is going GPL these days, I would like to know more about how to implement licensing mechanisms in wp themes and plugins. Justin tadlock came with something where I had to input a key to remove the link in the footer (Justin have since discontinued those themes). Although it was easy to remove it, it was good way. A plugin called autoblogged also uses a key system, although works with any random string most of the times. I’d like to know about other approaches. I understand that it would be trivial to remove such restrictions for php/wp ninjas, but there should be something that’s hard to get rid of by avarage php/wp geeks. Any ideas are welcome.

Thanks for this initiative about discussing things. I appreciate this.

By: Stephanie Davis

Stephanie Davis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:02:29 +0000

1) How do incoming links work? Sometimes I see 5-6 on my site and 20 minutes later they disappear.

By: CircleReader

CircleReader — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:19:41 +0000

I’d love to see such a thing from you, Nathan! I’d suggest also that such a series keep a close eye on WPMU, given the upcoming merge. Maybe there would be a WPMU expert around to collaborate with you on the project…

By: evie

evie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:34:43 +0000

See, Even these hotmail tags are confusing,, It’s difficult to set the gadgets, which I see makes it easier, Sometimes all the different pages you get referred to becomes too complicated. I cannot get “press it” to work right, cause I’m probably lacking it’s basic understanding,, So much I want to do, to make my site of interest, but I’m simply stuck!! Or whatever,,