breakthrough design

Happened upon this post, this morning, how about that for a Bing marketing campaign: “We just add a new background, and return Google’s results!”

Official Google Blog: Microsoft’s Bing Uses Google Search Results

Google XML Sitemap Generator, probably one of the most important plugins for WordPress to date (in terms of SEO anyway) instantly updates Google when new content is made available on your site.  Our latest site: Syracuse Nets Basketball Tournaments uses posts created in the future for tournaments, and therefore needs to display future posts.  Here’s how we did it:

Displaying future posts with Google XML Sitemap Generator

Please note – this is for WordPress version 2.1 or newer, for older versions, you’ll need to edit this same section, but slightly differently (the $wpCompat section applies to < 2.1)

Edit /plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap-core.php:

Here’s what it looks like before changes:

			if($this->GetOption('in_posts')) {
				//WP < 2.1: posts are post_status = publish
				//WP >= 2.1: post_type must be 'post', no date check required because future posts are post_status='future'
				if($wpCompat) $where.="(post_status = 'publish' AND post_date_gmt <= '" . gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:59') . "')";
				else $where.=" (post_status = 'publish' AND (post_type = 'post' OR post_type = '')) ";
			}

Here’s after changes:

if($this->GetOption('in_posts')) {
				//WP < 2.1: posts are post_status = publish
				//WP >= 2.1: post_type must be 'post', no date check required because future posts are post_status='future'
				if($wpCompat) $where.="(post_status = 'publish' AND post_date_gmt <= '" . gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:59') . "')";
				else $where.=" ((post_status = 'publish' OR post_status = 'future') AND (post_type = 'post' OR post_type = '')) ";
			}

An amazing article written over at Yahoo on improving page load time, reducing server/page load, and essentially optimizing your website’s performance:

• Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Site

For those of us wanting some flavor on the original “Sent from my iPhone” signature added by default to your iphone email signature.  Here are some funny highlights from Frucomerci’s Sent from my iPhone Alternatives list and some additional – feel free to add your own at the bottom.

“Sent from my Atari 2600″

“Sent from Portable Telephone Machine”

“Sent from my whiteberry”

“This space for rent. Offers only accepted via fax.”

“Sent from my eyePhone” (thanks caitlin)

“Sent from my cassette tape player”

“Sent from my shhwinging bachelor pad”

“Sent from my Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator”

“Sent to you slowly on T-Mobile’s EDGE”

“Sent using the interwebs”

“Sent after beating Piston Honda”

“Sent using up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, select, start”

“Sent by Coach Ditka”

“Sent from my iPhone”
(by evil ninja monkeys)

“Sent from my iPod Shuffle”

What are you using for your signature?


<div id="twitter_div">
<ul id="twitter_update_list">
<a href="http://twitter.com/YOURURLHERE" id="twitter-link" style="display:block;text-align:right;">follow me on Twitter</a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/YOURURLHERE.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=5"></script>

Change the YOURURLHERE to your actual twitter url and voila.