Archive for the ‘IndexU Tips & MODs’ Category

You probably already heard about reCAPTCHA. It is a very smart way doing captcha stuff, and it will help the world for digitizing books. Many popular site already use this such as StumbleUpon or Facebook and it is also available for many scripts, ex : Wordpress, vBulletin, Drupal, etc. So now here is how to use it in IndexU.
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Most submitters on our site seems not reading / ignoring the simple rules we have for submission. We clearly state that our site is a “Directory of directories” for niche or local/regional directories only, but we still got some general directory and even non directory site. So we decide to build this simple “pause” mods.
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We have done Wordpress and IndexU integration last year, but there’s something important missing there. The wordpress post do not have meta keywords and description. There’s nothing wrong with the integration, this is just the default behavior of wordpress. Using meta keywords and description in a page is one of important factor in SEO, so we decide to write a mods for this.
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In our site, we have a special page dedicated for Premium Listings. The purpose of this page is to give more value on premium listings so hopefully it can boost sales. Seems many of our members have interest on this one, so we decide to write it up.
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When you browsing our site, you’ll notice the transparent thumbnail in the top header and listings. This one probably not related to IndexU directly, but it is already asked many times by our members, so we decide to write it up.
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Recently we change our site again, instead of showing WP recent post from all we decide to show the recent post grouped by their categories. You can see this in our right panel : IndexU Tips & MODs and What’s Up section. With this, now we can give more exposure to categories we want. This mods still related to the Wordpress and IndexU Integration that we did last year.
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In IndexU, we already have a block that list the most visited links (Top 10). This mods is similar to the default IndexU has, but we include time period like : Most Visited This Week, Most Visited Last Week, Most Visited This Month, Most Visited in 10 Days, etc. We develop this mods based on suggestion by one of our member here, a very interesting idea.
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This mods is for adding SWReg payment as payment processor in IndexU. This additional payment method is asked by one of our member, so here it is.
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Couple of months ago, one of our member having slow performance problem with their IndexU sites. After quick investigation, we found that it is caused by one of our mods : the “Popular and Latest Search” mods. The actual problem is not the mods it self, but it is because of the giant size of the search log records.
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It seems many of our visitor searching for blogs/article using the big search bar above, but unfortunately they will found no result from blogs because it is only searching for IndexU links not the Wordpress content. So we decide to make a mods that will search Wordpress content and display it’s result within IndexU, hopefully it will make our site more useful for users.
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