Paginated comments with WordPress 2.7 and the Copyblogger theme

The new WordPress release 2.7 has built-in support for both comment threading and paging. Especially the latter is a cool feature: it helps fighting the problem of ever growing pages just because there’re so many comments attached to a post or a page.

Since I’m using the Copyblogger theme that currently doesn’t come with comments on several pages I changed the comment.php to use this new feature. This post documents how this worked.

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Removing the WordPress Generator meta tag completely

WordPress adds a generator tag at various locations. Basically that’s a good idea because it provides a means to check out the different versions of WordPress that are actively being used in the blogosphere.

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Automate FTP sessions with Windows

You’d like to upload some files from a PC running Windows via FTP to another server every now and then? It’s as easy as:

  • saving the appropriate FTP commands in a text file
  • using Windows’ built-in ftp command along with the text file
  • adding a task to the at scheduler.

Let’s have a look at this.

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Dynamic menu for your WordPress theme

I have found various descriptions about a dynamic navigation menu in a WordPress theme. What I’ve seen these solutions grab some pages and display the result either in the header or sidebar of the theme. It’s called dynamic because you can add pages to your blog and – depending on the implementation – a link to the appropriate page will appear in the menu.

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