Elie Khoury

WP AutoSuggest is a new plugin for WordPress that I released today. I needed the ability to quickly find posts when I search on my blog by typing in a keyword rather than waiting for the results page to load.

This plugin was inspired by Google’s AutoSuggest feature which was initially created by Yahoo. Also, Facebook has been using this technique frequently which helps load data faster and of course consumes less bandwidth on both the client and the server’s ends.

Installing this plugin is very straight forward:

1. Download it from the WordPress plugins repository
2. Upload the directory wp-autosuggest to your WordPress plugins directory (/wp-content/plugins/).
3. Activate the plugins from the Plugins section in your WP Admin area.

Note: For some templates, the designers have changed the Input ID of the search (I did that), so you can change the ID of your search box from the Settings > WP Autosuggest (It’s s by default).

There are a lot of customizations and options I’m considering, like Color Themes, Display etc… If you are familiar with the WordPress Codex and feel like contributing to this plugin, contact me!

WP AutoSuggest page has been created for you to follow the updates which will be followed by a detailed blog post.

If you have some suggestions, please write a comment.

Stay tuned.

The version 3 design of Fusion Live Blog was created in 2 days. The version 2 design was basicaly inspired by Mac OSX (iPod) website’s theme which consisted of a black background and rich in colors links. Obviously, this new design was inspired by Microsoft Office 2003/2007. Inspired by Microsoft yea! and showing the Linux Tux on the top of the page (fusion). Anyway, I have always been a big fan of Windows graphical user interface.

I’m still experimenting the Google Adsense performance on WordPress blogs. If this template performs well, I’ll release it for free and I will also release soon the Version 2 design of Fusion Live Blog… Stay tuned!

Hey buddies,

You might notice a change in this minor design update. It might seem weird for the loyal readers because the stylesheet is still in your cache, so make sure you hit Ctrl+ Reload (Thanks Johny) to update your cache.

Lately, the perfomance of the Google Ads was really poor on ekhoury.com and of course it’s because of the bad placements of the ads. Actually, I’m not looking for profits from this blog but I’m just experimenting some placements because I’m preparing a new list of tips for AdSense on blogs and WordPress blogs specifically!

Notice this Ad block on the top right; it is the purpose of this update and I think it will perform really well!

Dear friends,

I decided yesterday to come up with a very different design for my blog for many reasons. First of all, the colors of the old blog are not very flashy! You get bored from the design from the 1st few visits. Other than that, the advertisements CTR has dropped since I changed the background of the contents to light blue; I believe that a white background will increase the adsense CTR. And finally, I’m planning to add much more widgets to the site; so many widgets did not fit in the sidebar of the old site, so I added a new large side bar to the right, and moved the small one to the left!

If you have anything to say about the new design, write a comment!

Later!

Hello Friends…

I designed a new look for this site… As you see, it’s much more alive and way better then the Almost Spring theme!

The cool thing about this theme is the top which makes it live. It’s a bot that takes those infos (Nickname, Personnal Message, What I’m listenning to, Status…) and the Display picture from MSN Messenger and updates the top… That’s why it’s Live!

Hope you like it… I might add a small box which sends me messages to my MSN Messenger using Ajax post requests… and much more stuff will be added!

Thank you again for visiting my blog!

Cya