Tuning Twitter Tools for WordPress to Work With Multilingual Blogs using qTranslate

Posted by LionV | Lessons Learned | Sunday 29 March 2009 6:18 pm

Twitter Tools by Alex King is an excellent WordPress plugin for interacting between your blog and twitter. It has many features like putting twitter updates on your blog, or updating (twitting) twitter every time you post something. And this is the feature that interests me and was causing problems with qTranslate.
If you are using qTranslate [...]

Gaining Control of your Blog’s Login: Hacking the WordPress wp-login for a Custom Login Page

Posted by LionV | Lessons Learned | Sunday 22 March 2009 5:00 am

It does not feel really yours unless you take complete control of it. And this is exactly the case of a blog. The front end might look yours, but going one step behind the scenes and it only resembles to be yours. By one step behind I mean the login page. Yes, there are WordPress [...]

How to associate your WordPress Blog’s Local Search with Google Adsense Custom Search

Posted by LionV | Lessons Learned | Saturday 7 March 2009 1:22 pm

Some people like to have one, some people two, and some people two-in-one.
Another task I was faced with recently was to associate the WordPress local search of my blog with Google Adsense Custom Search. That is if you search in the local search and has no hits it will automatically submit the search query to [...]

How to add a Google Adsense Custom Search to your WordPress Blog

Posted by LionV | Lessons Learned | Saturday 7 March 2009 12:38 pm

Recently I was faced with the task of adding a Google Adsense Custom Search to he blogs I am administering. I have searched around and there are quite a few explanations. However, in my opinion, they all have the steps wrong as the direct you to create your Google Adsense Custom Search first and then [...]