Thankfully, David Chumps already has the solution for this. You can read his detail instruction for fixing the bugs over here. However, the first step which involved editing database using PHPMyAdmin is kinda tedious, so I tried to figure out the right SQL query to do the job. And here it goes:

UPDATE wp_term_taxonomy,wp_terms SET wp_term_taxonomy.description = wp_terms.name WHERE wp_term_taxonomy.term_id = wp_terms.term_id

This query will automatically fill the description field in wp_term_taxonomy with the right content from wp_terms table. It does save a LOT of time, especially if you have a LOT of categories and tags (I have over a hundred in one of my blog).

Note that in some condition, the content of wp_term table is also messed up, so you won’t be able to use the query above and you must modify wp_term_taxonomy manually like suggested by David. In my case, 20% of the affected blogs have the table messed up.

Hope it helps.

HP recently released Pavilion tx1000, an 12.1-inch entertainment Tablet PC. It comes with a rotated touchscreen display, an AMD Turion 64 X2 processor, an integrated webcam, dual microphones, a biometric fingerprint reader for enhanced security purpose, and a mini remote control for wireless Media Center control. Thanks to HP QuickPlay 3.0 feature, users can also quickly access multimedia functions without fully booting up the PC. As for the operating system, the machine is preloaded with the recently released Windows Vista OS.

No words on pricing and availability.

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I’ve been using the Optimal Title plugin for a while now, and I’m quite satified with it. However, on one of my blog, I need to customize the title of the page, and that’s why I decided to develop my own page title plugin for Wordpress. I call this baby [CA] Title.

How It Works

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First of all, the plugin works by taking the pre-defined format of each page type (like frontpage, single, archive, etc), replace the tag, and finally print the result. You can change the format from the Options – CA-Title page. I have also included the default format which is SEO-ready.

Requirement

Since this is a WordPress plugin, of course you need WordPress Currently tested under version 2.0.3. However, the plugin should work with other version as well.

Installation

1-Click Install: -
Manual Install:

• Download the latest version.
• Extract the file.
• Upload ca_title.php into your Plugins directory
• Activate the plugin from admin panel.

Usage

Once you activated the plugin, go to the Options page and continue to CA-Title setting page.

As you can see, you can customize the format of each page type. Modify if necessary and don’t forget that you can also add the tag on the right if needed.

When you’re done, save the setting. Now modify your template and change the TITLE tag (usually found on Header template).

Save and see the result

Tips/Tricks

• Display UTW Tags.
  That’s right, the plugin fully supports Ultimate Tag Warrior (tested with v3.1) plugin. You can use %tag% tag to display the current tag set on the Title which is useful when you have created Tag archive template. But before that, you have to do a little modification to UTW. Open ultimate-tag-warrior.php, find UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet function and change it to the following:

  function UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet($formattype, $format="", $limit = 0, $display = true) {
global $utw;
$format = $utw->GetFormat($formattype, $format);
if ($display) echo $utw->FormatTags($utw->GetCurrentTagSet(), $format, $limit);
else return $utw->FormatTags($utw->GetCurrentTagSet(), $format, $limit);
}

  Save and you’re done
  For example, take a look at this page.

To Do

• More tag

Version History

v0.1 – July 2nd, 2006

• Initial release

Much of the competition will remain the same but I would like to give authors the chance to strut their stuff and get their code together and published and advertised for everyone to make a good determination.

In the first competition, I participated and submitted two of my plugins, CA-Credits and CA-ColorPicker. But silly me, I didn’t know that I have to re-submit those plugins at the end of competition. Oh well, nevermind

Anyway, I may take part again in the next competition, but honestly, I don’t have any idea right now. I think there are already a Wordpress plugin for everything. Any ideas from you, guys?

I’ve been using WP ContactForm for a while and I’m very happy with it. It’s simple, easy to install, and more important, it does the job. But upon modifying my site’s structure, I found that now I need a Subject field in the contact form. This will also be the subject for the email sent to the sender (in this case: me).

By default, you can only have one subject for all the contact form you have. This is configured through the admin interface. But I want my visitors to be able to specify the subject line themself. Or at least, I can easily define what the default subject for each form.

For example, in this site I have three contact forms. One for the Contact Us page, one for the Submit/Correct Story page, and the last one for the Advertise/Partnership page. I want the first form to have “Contact Us” subject by default, the second form with “Submit/Correct Story”, and the third with “Advertise/Partnership”. Since the plugin unable to do that, I’ve made a little modification to it

This is how the form looks like after modification.

Basically, I just add the Subject field in the contact form. This plugin will look for “subject” parameter in the URL. If found, it will be used as the subject. You can check all the three pages above for the live demo.

If interested, you can download the modified plugin here.

Note that it is based on WP-ContactForm v1.2. I just found out that v1.3 already out after I modified the plugin. Maybe I’ll modify that new version later.

Have fun

The updated version, v0.3, also fix the random keyword method (I just notice that it wasn’t really random before).

Go to my WordPress Plugin page to quickly download the new version or to [CA] Chitika’s official page for more detail information about the new feature (see Usage section).

And for those who don’t know what [CA] Chitika is, it’s my Wordpress plugin to easily attach Chitika eMiniMalls ad on blog post. You can read the detail of the plugin here.

I’ve modified the official page a little bit and added a Tips/Tricks section. You can find out how to use the plugin to display Chitika’s ad on your theme there.

For download and detail information, jump to [CA] Chitika plugin’s official page.

How It Works

Since the plugin is still in the early stage, I only focus on how to make it works. To add the Chitika’s code on your post, you simply use this tag:

<!--chitika(width,height)-->

so for example, if you want to display the banner layout (468 x 60), you’ll write:

<!--chitika(468,60)-->

The plugin will automatically substitute the tag with the corresponding Chitika eMiniMalls ad code. Note that you can only use the supported ad layout dimension.

Plugin also supports the targetted query/keyword (ch_query code). It can be based on four variables: tag parameter, custom field, post title, and default query. Even you can let Chitika decide the best keyword for your post, it’s not recommended if you’re using AdSense, since it againsts the AdSense TOS (contextual ads). More about targetting query/keyword on the Usage section below.

No admin interface yet, but I might add it in the future.

Requirement

Since this is a WordPress plugin, of course you need WordPress Currently tested under version 1.5.2. The plugin doesn’t use any Wordpress built-in functions, so it should work with other version as well.

Installation

1-Click Install: available using Wordpress Plugin Manager. Click here for the entry on the database.

Manual Install:

• Download the latest version.
• Extract the file.
• Modify the variable (see Usage section).
• Upload ca_chitika.php into your Plugins directory
• Activate the plugin from admin panel.

Live Demo / Screenshot

Check my post here. Or see below for the screenshot of the post.

Usage

First, change the $chitika_client on the plugin file (ca_chitika.php) with your Chitika’s user id.

As I already mention above, the basic usage is, if you want to display Chitika’s ad, you have to add the following tag inside your post.

<!--chitika(width,height)-->

so for example, if you want to display the banner layout (468 x 60), you’ll write:

<!--chitika(468,60)-->

Now, to target the query/keyword:

1. Direct Tag Parameter.
   This is the highest priority. If the plugin found the keyword parameter, it will automatically use it and ignore the other setting. Simply add the query/keyword list as the third parameter on the Chitika’s tag. To enter multiple keyword (the plugin will randomly choose one of them), separate it with comma.
   For example:
   • Single query/keyword.

     <!--chitika(468,60,"digital camera")-->

   • Multiple query/keyword.

     <!--chitika(468,60,"digital camera,mobile phone,computer")-->

2. Custom Field.
   To use it, first change the value of $chitika_base on the plugin file (ca_chitika.php) to “tags”. Then on your post, add a custom field named Chitika and enter the value of the targetted query you want. To enter multiple query (the plugin will randomly choose one of them), separate it with comma.
3. Post Title
   Using your post title is the easiest way since you don’t have to think about the query yourself. And if your title already contain at least one targetted keyword, Chitika will use it and ignore the rest of the non-targetted keyword.
   To use it, you only need to change the value of $chitika_base on the plugin file (ca_chitika.php) to “title”.
4. Default Query/Keyword
   The default query/keyword will be used if: (1) you ask for it, (2) the custom field is empty, or (3) the post title is empty (which is almost impossible).
   To use it, change the value of $chitika_query on the plugin file (ca_chitika.php) with the value of the targetted query you want. To enter multiple query (the plugin will randomly choose one of them), separate it with comma. If you want to force the plugin to always use the default query, change the value of $chitika_base to an empty string “”.

Starting from v0.3, additional parameter has been added, nosearch.

<!-chitika(widht, height, keyword, nosearch)-->

nosearch parameter is used to hide or show Chitika’s Search tab. By default, nosearch is set to 1 (true). Since most of you are using Google AdSense together with Chitika, this is to comply with AdSense for Search TOS. If you’re not using AdSense for Search, use 0 (false) to display Chitika’s Search tab.

Tips/Tricks

• Display Chitika eMiniMalls ad on your theme using the plugin.
  If you want to use the plugin to display Chitika’s ad code on your WP theme, you can use the following PHP code:

  <?php chitika(width, height, keyword list); ?>

  For example:

  <?php chitika(468, 60, "notebook"); ?>

  will display a 468×60 Chitika’s ad with “notebook” as the keyword. You can ignore the keyword list parameter as well, and it will automatically use the default setting on the plugin file.

• Display Chitika eMiniMalls ad code on your theme using the plugin with target keyword based on your post category.
  Using the same technique as I did with Amazon’s Recommended Link query, you can also targetted the Chitika’s ad keyword based on your post category. Here’s the code:

  <?php chitika(468, 60, single_cat_title()); ?>

To Do

Future plan:

• Admin interface
• Quicktags button (done in v0.2)

Version History

v0.3 - October 11th, 2005

• Add nosearch parameter to comply with AdSense TOS
• Fix random keyword algorithm

v0.2 - October 3rd, 2005

• Add direct keyword targetting on the tag
• Add Quick Tags button

v0.1 - October 3rd, 2005

• Initial release

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away you entered your email address on http://wordpress.com/ to get a blog.

We’re now inviting small groups to use WordPress.com and your email address was selected today!

I think I’m going to use it as my personal blog. It’s been a long time since I last wrote about myself :p

Anyway, I already gave the invitation to my friend. Not for any particular reason. It’s just, he’s the only blogger available online on my Yahoo! Messenger list today :d Enjoy your invitation, my friend!

PS: My Wordpress.com blog is http://cosa.wordpress.com/ (still empty :p )