Currently i have updated my WordPress installation to 2.5. I was using the Popularity Contest version 1.3b3 plugin by AlexKing and i didn’t want to accept the idea that it isn’t WP 2.5 ready. So i did a little research and found out that i’m not the only one who has this problem. If you don’t want to wait until the author decides to post the new version because this plugin is crucial for your blog you can check out this quick fix.

Deactivate the plugin.
Navigate to the plugin’s directory and open popularity-contest.php
Scroll down to line 59 and replace the line require(’../../wp-blog-header.php’); with require(’../wp-blog-header.php’);
Reactivate the plugin.

Thank you Thomas for this wonderful solution.

The above fix works if you had the plugin…

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A very easy to follow tutorial that will show you how you can integrate Google AdSense ads into your phpbb3 based forum so that you can generate some revenue. This tutorial will help you integrate ads on the index page, viewforum page, viewtopic page, search results page and in the first post….

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I was writing a post almost at the beginning of this month about what a great service “WhoLinked” provided. It seemed a great, easy-to-use script generator that could help you to show the last 5 websites that linked to you. That way you were providing a link back to them and practically saying “thank you”.

I was reading the blog of some great SEO guru (don’t panic, i don’t remember his blog address because i was just hitting the “Stumble!” button) and there was a nice line saying something like nowadays web services come and go very fast. Basically this is what happened with “WhoLinked” as I noticed a couple of days ago that no links were showing up in…

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Finally WordPress 2.5 is out.

This post is just a heads up so i won’t bore you with details and other stuff you can read on the official page.

Also WordPress.org has suffered a new theme-based facelift.
Download WordPress 2.5

A short list of 5 relatively interesting plugins for WordPress. WP-o-Matic for automated RSS-based blogging, AdRotator for random displayed ads, WordPress Reports for aggregating Google Analytics and Feedburner stats in one place, Gregarious for displaying social bookmarking buttons and Download Monitor to help you upload files and keep an eye on download hits….

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Here i posted an article regarding Songbird. Now, with a bunch of bug-fixes and some interesting new features, Songbird 0.5 is out.
An interesting new feature is the MTP Device Support. This is actually a new extension. Now you can basically plug in your portable media (or even your mobile phone) and listen to music.
Now it seems like “Tag Cloud” isn’t just a WordPress widget name. Songbird offers you the chance to switch between different view types of you playlist.

Also they have improved the “Filter Picker” as now you can filter you songs by album, artist, composer, genre, rating and year. I don’t what’s the importance of the composer option if there is already the artist option. However i admit…

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The lack of human interaction within the Akismet system seems to affect different platforms. Of course, one of them is WordPress which has a native Akismet plugin, by default.

Why is Akismet a danger for bloggers ? Here’s a basic example: If a blogger posts an article and a few persons decide to post comments to that article, which the author (who is probably the blog owner) doesn’t like, he might mark some comments as spam, in spite of the fact that those comments are valid (but just use a different approach on the subject).

That’s a nasty example of a cruel blog owner. If the flagged comment author has a blog then he has at least one problem. This will…

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Yesterday Firefox 2.0.0.13 was released. With Firefox 3 rolling out any time now i think they should stop releasing new updates for Firefox 2 (at least when Firefox 3 will be out). Below a list with the security fixes.

This however shows once again that Firefox developers are working very hard to keep the public satisfied.

Today the following e-mail was expecting me in my Spam folder.

Here’s the original message:

It’s pretty obvious that the message is spam. Mainly because it’s in the Spam directory, Gmail flagged it, and the content is too spam-like. As you probably figured out by now, my PayPal account is in one piece.

I encourage you to have a quick look at what PayPal has to say about this type of fraud.

What a pathetic try…

If there was a contest for the most stylish Wordpress plugin homepage, this one will definitely win. cforms II is by far the ultimate contact form plugin out there ! And guess what ? It’s compatible with WordPress 2.5 already !

This AJAX based contact form generator lets you create different contact forms, blog wide ! Now it’s easy to insert one or more contact forms into your posts via the available cforms II button in your WYSISWYG editor or even from the standard WordPress code editor.

It’s very easy to generate contact forms with different fields (even an upload box) as well. A great feature is the backup function. You can backup your forms settings whenever you want. So if you…

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