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Weekend Roundup #142

Jaypee Habaradas — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:25:07 +0000

Hi everyone! Welcome to the 142nd edition of the Weekend Roundup. This edition was published late because I was very busy the whole weekend. Anyways, hope you folks still enjoy reading the articles and links I’ve gathered and shared this week. Enjoy!

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WordPress

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Social Media

Technology

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Pinoy Blogs

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If you have any questions, comments, suggestions or would want to share your article or any interesting story that you found in the Internet and have it featured in the next Weekend Roundup, feel free to leave a comment or send me a message via the contact page.

Shortstat on WordPress 2.0.1

Jaypee Habaradas — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:17:39 +0000

I just recently found out that an upgrade to WordPress 2.0.1 messes up the WP-ShortStat plugin.

At first, I was wondering why my stats weren’t changing after 1 day, I still had the same stats. Checked my Blogflux Mapstats and saw that there were several new hits. I knew something was wrong with the plugin, but I didn’t know what. I checked my databases using phpMyAdmin, there was nothing wrong with my tables. Next thing I did was to deactivate the plugin, drop the tables used by the plugin and then reactivate the plugin. This didn’t fix the problem.

I thought of doing a Google search using the keywords “shortstat not working” and found a thread in the WordPress support page. I saw one fix posted by one user and tried it but it still didn’t fix the problem. Then one post gave a url to one blog and I followed the link and ended up in a German blog. Hehe. I didn’t understand a thing but I saw that it had a link that had shortstat in it, so I clicked on it and found myself in an English page. In that entry, it had a download link to an edited version of Shortstat. I downloaded the file, uploaded to my plugins folder, activated it and it worked! Thank goodness!

You can download the updated version of the ShortStat plugin here.

Extra: I added a Live Preview for the comments and I’ve activated the Tiger Admin plugin again which works nicely with WordPress 2.0.1

Google Search Commands

Jaypee Habaradas — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:32:44 +0000

For most of us, Google is the search engine of choice. We use Google to do research or when we are looking for something in the web. When we want to do a search, we type the keyword/s and then click “Enter”. That’s how you do a search, right? Right. But a lot of people do not know that Google lets you make use of operator commands. Operator commands are special query words that have special meaning in the Google database which does a “unique” kind of search. Below is a list of Google search commands which will help you narrow your search down a bit.

link:www.yoursite.com – This command will show you all of the backlinks to your site. Handy tool for finding out who is linking to you.

related:www.yoursite.com – This command will show you a list of pages that Google thinks are related to your site in some way.

site:www.yoursite.com – Searches only those pages from the site you list.

allinurl: – If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. For instance, [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both “google” and “search” in the url.

define: – The query [define:] will provide a definition of the words you enter after it, gathered from various online sources. The definition will be for the entire phrase entered (i.e., it will include all the words in the exact order you typed them).

inurl: – If you include [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance, [inurl:google search] will return documents that mention the word “google” in their url, and mention the word “search” anywhere in the document (url or no). Note there can be no space between the “inurl:” and the following word.

allintitle: – If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both “google” and “search” in the title.

intitle: – If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance, [intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word â€œgoogleï¿½? in their title, and mention the word “search” anywhere in the document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the “intitle:” and the following word.

cache: – If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document. For instance, [cache:www.subnixus.com web] will show the cached content with the word “web” highlighted.

info: – The query [info:] will present some information that Google has about that web page. For instance, [info:www.google.com] will show information about the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the “info:” and the web page url.

spell: – Does a spell check of any given word.

stocks: – If you begin a query with the [stocks:] operator, Google will treat the rest of the query terms as stock ticker symbols, and will link to a page showing stock information for those symbols. For instance, [stocks: intc yhoo] will show information about Intel and Yahoo. (Note you must type the ticker symbols, not the company name.)

filetype: – Does a search for a specific file type, or, if you put a minus sign (-) in front of it, it wonâ€™t list any results with that filetype.

daterange: – Is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.

maps: – Is a shortcut to do a google maps search.

phone: – Searches for anything that looks like a phone number.

allinlinks: – Searches only within links, not text or title.

allintext: – searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title.

You can see the complete list of Google operator commands here.

*taken from Subnixus.com