7 Best Minimalist WordPress Themes

If you are looking for a minimalist theme, don’t forget to check out Plaintxt.org collection of The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes section. I agreed with Scott, a minimalist design is not necessary a simple one. It is about achieving the fundamental without sacrificing aesthetic aspect of the object.

A blog theme must have a good balance of design vs content. A strong design may strike your visitors on the first look read on

8 Batch CMD - delete files by age

We are performing daily full database backup in office. As part of the maintenance effort to keep only the most recent 30 days backup, I was looking for a way to purge old files using cmd batch and I came across this neat script. Schedule this to run on a daily basis and viola, you have yourself an automated purge job running in 5 minutes.

This script is with the assumption that you create a backup file each day. It compiles the directory file listing (in the order of date created) into file.txt, skipping the first 29 entries and delete 30th and onward. Short, simple and it works.
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9 Turning Off Post Preview

WordPress 2.0 provides a great preview function but there maybe times you want to turn it off during editing to save additional bandwidth. Is it necessary? It will be if your blog is graphics heavy and loaded with many images. I have discovered the issue of bandwith recently when 3 of my blog sites went image heavy and the spike of bandwidth forced me to upgrade the hosting plan 3 times in a month (from 3 to 6 to currently 9 gig of monthly bandwith).
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10 Snatching Expiring Domain

I have came across a dormant domain that I really liked which expires in coming month. I am aware of the common backordering process but I thought to better prepare myself in the event this domain name is available for grab.

After a bit of research, I am glad to have read this excellent blog by Mike Davidson that articulates the entire (and frustrating) process of acquiring an expiring domain.
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11 Statistics For Your Blog

Visitor statistics should be the concern of every blogger, casual or professional alike. You can learn a lot about your site by knowing who visited when, what they were looking at and how they’ve got to your site. I review my site visit log everyday via AWStats, a very powerful and one of the most widely deployed traffic analyzing tool available on most hosting servers today.

If you are new to the topic, visitor log are essentially bits of traces left behind when someone visited your site. It can tell you: read on

12 Upload “Link To File” bug

If you’ve tried attaching to the post any non-image file upload using the “Link To File” option, the link will not work because the generated URL is wrongly pointed to wp-admin folder.

The generated URL
<a id="p4" title=test.zip href="http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/test.zip">test.zip</a>

This applies to WordPress 2.0 - 2.0.4, for attaching non-image file, using “Link To File” option only.
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