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upgraded:FCKEditor for wordpress version 3.2

Dean Lee — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:05:55 +0000

FCKEditor for wordpress has been upgraded to version 3.2 with support for wordpress’s “Read more” feature:

FCKEditor for wordpress has been upgraded to version 3.1

Dean Lee — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:34:42 +0000

FCKEditor for wordpress has been upgraded to version 3.1 to work with the lastest version of FCKEditor : CKEditor 3.0.1.you can try the demo of CKEditor here: http://ckeditor.com/demo

you can download FCKEditor for wordpress from: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin/

YAAPC has upgraded to version 1.1.3 with SEO Enhanced

Dean Lee — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:50:01 +0000

This version adds a feature that can automatically generate “noindex,follow” meta tag in your paged comments page to avoid duplicate content in search engine.Many thanks to Hank’s for his great comment and advice to YAAPC:

Isn’t that causeing a lot of duplicate content? Do i’ve to stop all “?p=x&cp=x#comments” pages from being indexed via .htaccess/robot.txt or is there a switch to mark them “noindex” in robots meta tag? Every click on another comments page is counted as real pageview, right?

A new option was added to the YAAPC’s administrator UI,you can enable or disable this new feature by this check box:

Boost your WordPress performance on Windows IIS 6 with FastCGI and eAccelerator in 5 minutes

Dean Lee — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:37:27 +0000

First,download and install the FastCgi Extension for IIS 6 from microsoft.The FastCGI protocol enables PHP applications to be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable way.FastCGI re-uses CGI processes for multiple requests, which provides a significant performance boost as compared to CGI.

Once FastCgi is installed,Config FastCGI extension to work with php:

Open a command line window,and change the current directory to %WINDIR%\system32\inetsrv.
Run
cscript fcgiconfig.js -add -section:"PHP" -extension:php -path:"C:\PHP\php-cgi.exe"
to register the PHP CGI program as the one that will be processing .php extensions.
Modify fcigext.ini file in %WINDIR%\system32\inetsrv as the following (assuming you installed PHP to C:\PHP folder):

[Types]
php=PHP

[PHP]
ExePath=c:\php\php-cgi.exe

Next,download and install eAccelerator.eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

After eAccelerator is downloaded:

Copy eaccelerator.dll to your php extensions folder to c:\php\extensions.(assuming you installed PHP to C:\PHP folder)
Create a folder (with the appropriate permissions) for the temporary cached files.
For example: c:\tmp\eaccelerator
Add the following to your php.ini (as the first loaded extension):

extension=eAccelerator.dll
eaccelerator.shm_size="128"
eaccelerator.cache_dir="c:\tmp\eaccelerator"
eaccelerator.enable="1"
eaccelerator.optimizer="1"
eaccelerator.check_mtime="1"
eaccelerator.filter=""
eaccelerator.shm_max="0"
eaccelerator.shm_ttl="0"
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period="0"
eaccelerator.shm_only="0"
eaccelerator.compress="1"
eaccelerator.compress_level="9"
eaccelerator.keys = "shm"
eaccelerator.sessions = "shm"
eaccelerator.content = "shm"

That’s all,restart your IIS and you’ll get a faster WordPress on windows IIS 6 with highly boosted performance.

Because IIS does not support mod_rewrite module for rewriting URLs,the biggest problem hosting wordpress on iis is that you always get an ‘ugly’ and not SEO-friendly index.php in your permalinks.you can install wp_url_rewriting,an open source URL rewriting for wordpress, to resolve this issue.

Yet another Ajax paged comments plugin for wordpress (YAAPC)

Dean Lee — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:14:17 +0000

This Plugin provides Ajax enabled comments system with paging,posting and form validation to your WordPress blog.

Features:

Ajax page navigation
When the user navigate through the comments via page selector,only the comments area will be send back to the client and refreshed,not the full page.This actually save your server load and bandwidth thus making your blog faster and more responsive. The paging system works even if JavaScript is disabled.
SEO friendly
Pagination can cause a duplicate content issue with search engines.YAAPC can automatically generate “noindex,follow” meta tag in your paged comments page to avoid duplicate content in search engines that may hurt your rankings.(many thanks for Hank’s great comment and advice)
Ajax comment posting
Posting comments via Ajax,without page refreshing.
Comment form validation
validate the user input in comment form before sending to server.

Download Yet another AJAX paged comments plugin for wordpress(YAAPC)

Demo and Testing

Click here for demo and testing.

please don’t comment to this post for testing purposes.

Installation

Upload YAAPC to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
(Optional,but recommended) Modify your comments template(comments.php),add a div with id="yaapc-comments" to wrap the comment list area. Place in where you want the page selector to show.take a look at the example bellow for details.
Modify the style.css in YAAPC directory to custimize how YAAPC looks .

An example of a modified comments.php:

... ...



	
	
	
	
	... ...
	
	
	
 
	comment_status) : ?>
		
	 
		
		Comments are closed.
	


... ...

Administration UI

click for full image:

Q&A

How to display the comment number?
Add yaapc_number;?> to your comment template(inside loop).

The problem about Permalinks Migration Plugin

Dean Lee — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:43:46 +0000

Some people told me that they can’t redirect from default permalinks structure (/?p=#) to a new one via Permalinks Migration plugin.Revenuenets sent me a message a few days ago:

hi Dean,i think the problem that i’ve asked you previously is a wordpress 2.5 limitation,without using any plugins, wordpress itself can’t even redirect /%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/ .
any comments on that?

I’m woking on new version of Permalinks Migration plugin,trying to find a way to overcome that limitation and fix this issue.but i’m sorry to say,that due to another project, my free time is very limited so progress may be slow.thanks for your understand and help.

Updated:FCKEditor for wordpress version 2.4

Dean Lee — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:04:41 +0000

FCKEditor for WordPress has been upgraded to version 2.4.

this version upgrade FCKEditor to the newest version 2.6.and fixed the wpMore issue.

it compatible with WordPress 2.5.you can download it from here

WordPress 2.5 Error on Windows IIS:Undefined index: PATH_INFO

Dean Lee — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:11:37 +0000

After upgrading to WordPress version 2.5 on Windows IIS,you may get the following errors:

Notice: Undefined index: PATH_INFO in (path)\wp-settings.php on line 74
Notice: Undefined index: PATH_INFO in (path)\wp-settings.php on line 77

to solve this problem,open file wp-settings.php,goto line 71 and replace the following code:

if ( $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] == $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] )
	$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];
else
	$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] . $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];

with:

if (empty($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']))
	$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 0, strrpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], '/')) . '/';
else if ( $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] == $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] )
	$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];
else
	$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] . $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];

this will resolve that issue,Your can also download an already modified version of wp-setting.php from here.

Updated:FCKEditor for wordpress version 2.3

Dean Lee — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:34:33 +0000

FCKEditor for wordpress has been upgraded to version 2.3.

this version upgrade FCKEditor to the newest version 2.5.1,you can download it from here.

Blog.35.com alpha launched today

Dean Lee — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:12:03 +0000

Blog.35.com alpha launched today,it’s a free blog hosting service based on the popular WordPress blogging platform that allows you to set up and maintain your own blog site,quickly and effortlessly.