_Customizations To This Blog

Posted in Carbon Market News on August 3, 2008

Here is a list of what this site is running:


A 3-column template system with spectacular typography and customizable, rotating images

Plugins

This plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.


Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress, automatically add any custom paragraph, html code, ad code, technorati tags and/or related links list to the end of every posts. All global options are fully customized via wordpress admin option section.


Puts unlimited number of social bookmarking links in your posts’ footer.

- simple and flexible contact form.

- allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments.

’s related posts feature

- generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.

- Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

integrates with Wordpress.com Stats (see below) plugin, providing a widget to show the most viewed posts.

- Collects information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It’ll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page. You will need your API key from Wordpress.com for this to work.

- Does wonders for load. In essence, WordPress writes pages to the filesystem for quick access by WordPress. Once an hour (or other interval if changed), those cached pages expire and a new version is fetched from the database. By end-rounding the need for repeated trips to the database on every page load, load time is drastically increased.

LOOKING AT INSTALLING THESE:

  1. - makes blogs that use full posts on the homepage more search engine friendly and gives flexibility to people that want to use both full posts and excerpts on the homepage.
  2. - leaves a link to a commentors last post under their comment.
  3. - adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.
  4. - provide a simple administration interface to allow the addition of a custom tagline, signature or © copyright message to the wordpress generated rss feeds. You can add any kind of message, tag, or even images — as long as it can be displayed in an RSS feed, it’s up to you.
  5. - manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.
  6. - Works great for SEO optimization

Customizations

1. Using the following code in category-template.php:

function get_category_link($category_id) {
global $wp_rewrite;
$catlink = $wp_rewrite->get_category_permastruct();
$catlink = str_replace(’/category’,””, $catlink);

2. Then was getting 404s for all category archive pages, so then went to admin panel / settings / permalinks / in custom structure added this: /%category%/%postname%-%post_id%.htm

Vote Count Button

Below is the code we are using to get the submit/vote counter MindBodyGreen button to appear in the top left of our posts (it needs to be added to both your index.php and single.php BEFORE this line of code: <?php the_content(’[click to continue...]‘); ?>):

<!–start mindbodygreen submit button in left corner–>
<div style=”float:left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;”>
<!–begin MindBodyGreen button–>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
mbg_url = ‘<?php the_permalink(); ?>’;
mbg_title = ‘<?php the_title(); ?>’;
mbg_energy = true;
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://mindbodygreen.com/js/mbg.js”></script>
<!–end MindBodyGreen button–>
</div>
<!–end MindBodyGreen button button in left corner–>

Services

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Pushes RSS headlines to your Twitter account so people can then use Twitter applications to get real time updates on their desktop.