Noemi Millman: Triopter: Category Archives for "wordpress"

Have you ever wanted to add a custom field to a Wordpress post or page that contained an image URL — for instance, to use in a template?

You’ve probably noticed that it’s a real pain in the rear: you have to find the URL for the image and then copy and paste it into a field. If you have non-technical users managing the site, chances are they have a lot of trouble with this process.

You’re not the only one who’s been frustrated.

Well, good news. I’ve just released a plugin that allows you to use the Wordpress 2.5 media …

The sun finally came out today in Queens, and we have real spring weather! What better time to introduce Flowers, a spring-y floral Wordpress theme. See Flowers theme in action.

The Flowers theme is free to use and distribute, as long as you retain the design and photography credits in the footer. Please do not distribute any modifications to the design.

Flowers has been tested in Wordpress 2.3 and 2.5, and may also work with earlier versions. Please report any problems you run into in the comments on this post.

Download Flowers here.

One of my favorite WordPress plugins is WP-SlimStat, which allows you to track blog traffic in real time, and even if you don’t have access to raw log files and a log analysis software package.

Now, although SlimStat installed and ran without a hiccup on a couple of other blogs I administer, when I tried to add it to Triopter, it completely borked my blog, aborting the rendering of any page after the first post heading and before the content. The SlimStat dashboard panel was also coming up empty.

A few other people on the author’s blog had reported …