Tag: wordpress

WordPress 3.3 Makes Changes

Posted onAuthorTruXter

The New WordPress 3.3 has made some changes
Lots of changes. It looks as if the folks from WordPress have brought the top toolbar we just recently got, and added it to the side left menu we always had. This look a bit sleeker.
I am quite please with wordpress 3.3 , Even though I had a tiny panic attack and a bad hiccup on the update.

New Media Feature

New Media Feature

There is an updated media feature that allows you to drag and drop the files you are uploading, instead of searching all around your computer for them. I really wasn’t too bothered with the browse button.

The single media icon now launches the uploader
for all file types, and the new drag and drop
interface makes uploading a breeze.

I See the latest wordpress update also changed, the spot that you select image thumbnail sizes from when you are placing pictures on your website. Nothing big enough for me to need to take a screenshot for. you will see the option in your menu when you get around to it.
They added a “View Post” in the toolbar at the top of the screen that they nearly stripped for the menu on the left. In doing that, they removed the option to click your site’s name at the top of the page, to take you to your home page.

After that…. Meh.. nice. looks great. bit large and slow… but ok.
wordpress updated. We are now using wordpress 3.3. Plenty of nice looking features… ok two.. maybe three, bu they aren’t super useful, they kinda just force you to look for stuff.

WordPress Ifeature Theme Review

Posted onAuthorTruXter

This theme has been the greatest them on wordpress I have ever used. Cyberchimps created the best theme yet.
but there is a downside. It is like the day after I posted on the cyberchimps facebook page, praise on how easy they made it to put ads at the top of the page, they sent out an update that killed the top banner option
version 1.2.1 allows you to put ads in. Version 2.0.5. does not.
IFeature Version 1.2.1 download can be found on WordPress website
The featured Articles option, though is a great concept, is a bit too tacky looking once activated. You can only activate the featured items option, if you pay for Ifeature.
Downside, is the upper banner area does not allow for a large banner. and it would be nice to change the color of the beam at the top of the page without having to use photoshop and they really could have repeated a smaller image for that. Would reduce that flicker when the page opens.
but, my over all score for Ifeature theme entirely:
9/10

Android Apps 2011 – our top choice

Posted onAuthorTech Review Man

Our top 5 Android apps for your Android based phones.

ixMAT Barcode Scanner
a href=”https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ixellence.ixmat.android.communityamp;feature=search_result”Barcode scanner/a for your Android phone. This one scans a large choice of barcodes.

Dungeon Defender
object width=”560″ height=”345″ classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” /param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” /param name=”src” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/BeyQ-PC_cwc?version=3amp;hl=en_USamp;rel=0″ /param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /embed width=”560″ height=”345″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/BeyQ-PC_cwc?version=3amp;hl=en_USamp;rel=0″ allowFullScreen=”true” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” //object
Online Role playing game, for your android device.

a href=”http://truxtertech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/d-game.png”img class=”size-full wp-image-1380″ title=”d-game” src=”http://truxtertech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/d-game.png” alt=”barcode to game” width=”158″ height=”158″ //a

Dungeon Defender barcode

Wifi Toggle Switch
a quick a href=”https://market.android.com/details?id=com.curvefish.widgets.wifionofffeature=search_result”switch/a you can place on your main screen to toggle wireless signal connection on and off. So you don’t have to flip through the main menu and then the settings

Rev3Remote
let’s you get quick access to a href=”https://market.android.com/details?id=com.awc.revremote.freefeature=search_result”Revision 3/a content and videos. Works better than the revision 3 certified ap.

Hey tell. Hey tell is a way to send your friends short messages, voice messages, via your internet service. Cuts down on minute usage. If you have wifi, its free to use.

WordPress
For those of you with an android phone who also run a website that uses a href=”https://market.android.com/details?id=org.wordpress.androidfeature=search_result”wordpress/a, then this ap is probably the best find you will get for your android phone. EVER!

Twittoaster Calls it Quits

Posted onAuthorTech News1 Comment

The owner of Twittoaster has called it quits.

He has begun the shutting down of his service. Your WordPress ap that automatically posts to twitter, will work no more.

Here is his farewell.

It seems the work was to much.

The ap writer was hired on with twitter last year and made an announcement that twittoaster would likely shut down. So today you get a notice in your WordPress script saying to update your twittoaster, after you update your twittoaster you get another notice it says

Twitoaster Plugin is deprecated! Please read this announcement for more information

When you visit the site and read the farewell and all of the responses, you sink into your chair. because you know, that things will soon be different, and you now know that you just lost a great ap for getting traffic to your website. You seo skills will have to be honed a bit better to the old ways.

Yet another great ap is dead. kind of like jaiku.

 

Digg Digg Update is Dead – I Think

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Looking at the post information I am seeing in the update
“Digg DiggYou have version 4.2.2.2 installed. Update to 4.5.
Compatibility with WordPress 3.0.1: 100% (according to its author)”

But actually Digg Digg works on all of my sites that have it installed, Except for the sites where I updated it. All of those sites have no digg digg. So no, digg digg is not 100% compatible with wordpress 3.0.1

try truxtertech.com and truxter.org.

:-(

Maybe it’s just down for those or not updated or activated on their end.
As soon as it all works on those sites I will be updating this site here.

***update***
Ok you actually have to re-do all of your settings and make the plugin visible to the public again.
***update***

Free Useful WordPress Themes

Posted onAuthorTips Of Tech1 Comment

The guys at Zenverse have some really useful powerful wordpress themes. The themes they provide have advertisement tools out the wazoo (lol I said wazoo). Many free themes with tons of  plugin options already built in. They have some for sale, I never made it that far. I found some free ones that seem to have changed my whole website efforts. On that note I have to take time to tell you to look for their donate button, Their efforts are worth a simple donation, and or a thank you.

WordPress themes

I am in the process of editing two that I got from theme. Not much but enough to make it closer to the appearance I need. You know, colors shades and adding a little bit of flash

Akismet Issue – Banning People

Posted onAuthorTech News

Is Akismet down?

Did they close the servers?

Well something is wrong. My site and a few other people’s sites are banning people. it’s almost as if akismet is banning huge i.p. ranges or internet service providers. I had an issue a few months back. It seems it is happening again. I am not mad at anyone. I completely appreciate everything they have done. It does though seem like I should just turn it off in my plug-ins and all of my posts might have to have the comments turned off . Really it seems like I never used the thing anyway. I personally have decided to not accept probably 200 times the amount of messages that Akismet did not block. No i do not ban them, I just decide to not accept spammy ones.

Here is a quote from the Forums I posted my request in

all of my powweb accounts are showing this again
“Akismet has detected a problem. A server or network problem is preventing Akismet from working correctly. Click here for more information about how to fix the problem.”

Last time that was showing, there was an issue . It took a few days for people to come together and note it was not each of our individual fault/issue.
I didnt log into any of my sites for like 3 days, i logged in and saw that.. It has now been three days since I first saw it. So I am assuming no one has caught it again.

Just a heads up to the techies. if it turns out to be something on my end. Let me know.
http://www.truxter.org
http://www.truxtertech.com
http://www.truxtertech.com/news

Not to say it is actually teh same issue, but I could suggest that something else happened when they updated to accommodate the issue I WAS having. It all seemed to start with  the latest WordPress update.

There is a link in  “Is Akismet down?” that shows how to resolve some of the issue. Maybe it will help you.

Ultimate Revenge On Spammers

Posted onAuthorTruXter

See I have been getting tons of spammers to all of my sites.
I added an I.P. Ban program to my WordPress Scripts and put up an awesome Ban message for the bots that crawl my page.
Bot Redirect
Basically it’s a page that says ” you are banned” and then below it has link that says “sign in/sign up” with a link that takes them to the “stop forum spam” you just type in the spammer’s name on that page and their email addrerss and a couple other items, this of course in theory may lead the bot to accidentally registering it’s self as a spammer. Prevents me from having to do all of the foot work.
:-)
I really wish those guys would design a page named “fake forum log in” or “fake blog in page” and set it to request all the exact same information that wordpress asks for, I would link directly to it and let the spammers log themselves in.
If anyone knows the people on that site, let them know.. Because i surely do not see the contact page.

Question, why in the heck do they all use a russian email account, yet the trace routes all show it’s Israel or Virginia.

Akismet VS WordPress 2.8.5

Posted onAuthorGame News

Seems I am the only person who get this information out, because I did not update every single wordpress script on all of my websites.. This one is the one to get the message out. I have not yet found the solution to akismet crashing my rss feeds on all of my sites but this post is my original post about akismet being down and not working well with  wordpress 2.8.5.

Maybe I am totally wrong and someone knows the fix for my issue. If so please post it on the site, in case someone else thinks the same as myself.

So much writing has gone to waste over the past 4 days.