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Zemanta
2008-04-30 05:53:00 While researching new blog tools/toys/enhancers I came across an interesting service called Zemanta. What is Zemanta? I’m glad you asked. It’s a small application installed as a Firefox extension that adds a sidebar to the write post window of your favourite blog software. As you write your post this nifty tool will automatically scan your ... More About: Blogging , Word , Press
WPDesigner.com Dead?
2008-04-24 02:06:00 Oh how the mighty have fallen. Unless you’ve been living under a rock these last few weeks you know all about Tung Do (aka Small Potato) and the sale of his website wpdesigner.com to Miami entrepreneur Pawel Ciszewski. While the figure being thrown about is $65K and change, some sources claim it to be much ... More About: Blogging , Word , Press , Dead
Common Error Messages
2008-04-23 13:42:00 Since I’ve been helping out in the Word Press Support Forums for the last year I’ve noticed numerous threads about some common error messages encountered by various bloggers. I’m going to highlight 2 such messages and show you how easy they are to correct. Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at ... More About: Blogging , Messages , Common
WordPress Wins
2008-04-23 02:43:00 The results are in for the 2008 Webware 100 awards and both Word Press and its hosting service WordPress.com have taken home the bacon in the category of Publishing. Congrats to all involved! Watcha gonna do Anil when the Big W runs wild all over you brother? More About: Wordpress , Blogging , Wins
You Too Can Have a edu Spam Blog
2008-04-22 23:08:00 Spam on .edu blogs? From Ars Technica, Think back to the time when you filled out university applications. Which of the following might have suggested to you that the educational institution in question was not a great choice? 1. Its web site is the world’s worst-looking WordPress page 2. It has been sued by the State of Hawaii ... More About: Society , Internet , Spam , Blogging , Blog
Clean Permalinks for Search Results
2008-04-22 20:18:00 Here is a little tip to force Word Press to use clean permalinks for search results. Despite using pretty permalinks you may have noticed WordPress returns search results as yoursite.com/?s=SEARCHTERMS instead of yoursite.com/search/SEARCHTERMS. I’ll show you how to achieve the latter. First of all, create a new file called search.php which contains the following, <?php header('Location: http://www.yoursite.com/search/' . ... More About: Blogging , Results , Search
Using Pullquotes Part Two
2008-04-21 13:37:00 In my previous post I showed you how to easily add pullquotes to your Word Press blog by simply adding a new class to the existing blockquote. Now I’ll show you a way to do it without manually adding class=”mag” to every blockquote tag. We do it by adding a new button to the Text Editor ... More About: Blogging , Part
Using Pullquotes
2008-04-21 10:58:00 Although I prefer the minimalistic approach to web design there are some design features I’ve seen on other sites that I thought were kind of cool. For example, some of the big news and magazine sites make use of a styling technique called pullquotes. A pullquote is a little block of text that is highlighted ... More About: Blogging , Word , Press
Gravatars
2008-04-20 12:37:00 Among the great new features introduced in Word Press 2.5 is the built-in support for Gravatars, or Globally Recognized Avatars. Global because once you sign up for a free account your email address is associated with the image you chose and will be automatically displayed on any web page that supports the feature. To enable this ... More About: Blogging
Changing Username and Password
2008-04-18 04:48:00 For some odd reason I’ve seen an increase in the number of threads at the forums from people unable to login to their Word Press install. I’m not sure if they have simply forgotten their login details or if the information in the database was somehow corrupted but the threads are very real. If you find ... More About: Blogging , Changing , Username
Pretty Gmail
2008-04-17 18:34:00 Of all the email services I have tried over the years I must admit my favourite is Google’s Gmail . Microsoft’s new Windows Live Mail is a big improvement over Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail is looking good these days but I love Gmail. The only complaint I have with the service is the appearance of the ... More About: Software , Internet , Blogging , Pretty
Custom Loop in Sidebar
2008-04-16 02:02:00 If you’re a rabid Word Press fan like me you no doubt love to peruse the documentation at the Codex. I know I do. I could spend hours pouring over the information and quite often I do. Usually after coming across some useful little nugget I’ll hurry over to my local install and put theory to ... More About: Blogging , Sidebar , Custom
Shiny New
2008-04-15 15:01:00 Now that spring has arrived I’ve been busy with the traditional spring cleanup. The basement is a mess. It’s amazing how much junk collects over the course of the winter without you even realizing. The same can be said for the backyard although it is not nearly as bad. So I thought this would be ... More About: Blogging , Word , Press , Shiny
Say No to Obfuscated Code
2008-04-15 05:11:00 It seems that there are more and more galleries or theme sites popping up offering free Word Press themes. Sounds good right? As with anything else in life all is not what it seems. Many of these theme sites insert obfuscated code into the themes they offer, usually in the footer and certainly without the permission ... More About: Blogging , Code
Life and Death
2008-04-14 03:34:00 Although this post is a departure from my usual ramblings on politics or my WordPress tutorials and tips it is important nevertheless and I felt compelled to share it. The subject matter is, you guessed it, life and death. This has significant meaning in my case as we recently lost a dear family friend - ... More About: Society , Life , Death , Life and Death
Hiding Sidebar On Certain Page
2008-04-12 10:03:00 How to remove sidebar on 1 page, and keep it on the others? This was a question asked in the forums the other day and upon answering it I thought to myself what interesting fodder for another post! I supplied the original poster with 2 methods on how to achieve the result but in this ... More About: Blogging , Word , Press , Page , Sidebar
Styling Individual Post
2008-04-10 20:56:00 In a previous post I showed you how to apply a specific style sheet to particular pages or categories. (See Create Pages With a Different Style Sheet) In this post I’ll show you how to style an individual post such as I have done with this one. Why do that? For several reasons. Perhaps you ... More About: Blogging , Word , Press , Post , Individual
Proposed Change to Forum Appearance
2008-04-10 04:25:00 After helping out in the Word Press Support Forum for about a year now one thing has become painfully clear and that is the refusal of many people to use the damn search function. Many of the questions asked are the same ones over and over and have been answered as many times. What is so ... More About: Change , Blogging
Create Pages With a Different Style Sheet
2008-04-09 18:28:00 In this post I’ll show you how to create a Word Press Page which uses its very own style sheet thereby giving it a unique look. For this example, the Page I’m going to use will have the ID 2414. Look in header.php for the call to your current style sheet. It should look like, <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php ... More About: Blogging , Style , Sheet
RTO Now Powered By WP 2.5
2008-04-07 08:16:00 Yeah I know I said I was in no rush to upgrade to Word Press 2.5. But I also said that I have been playing with 2.5 since it was 2.4-bleeding on a local install and I love the new features. The new version is virtually a total rewrite which delivers increased speed to the backend. ... More About: Blogging
Export Your Database
2008-04-07 03:32:00 Now that Word Press 2.5 is out I can’t stress enough the importance of backuping up your database prior to making the jump. The new version is almost a complete rewrite and will make many changes to your database, some of which you may or may not like. If you decide for some reason that you ... More About: Blogging , Database , Export
Gore Still At It
2008-04-07 00:17:00 I see the King of Hot Air himself, Al Gore , was in Montreal attending an environmental training session. While there he took the time to congratulate Quebec on its environmental policies. This coming from a guy who uses more power in one month than the average American family does in a year. Now I’m not knocking ... More About: Canada
Multiple Image Upload in WP 2.5
2008-04-04 06:40:00 One of the coolest features of Word Press 2.5 is the ability to upload multiple files, as in images, at once as opposed to one at a time. However, judging by the questions in the WordPress Support Forums and comments I’ve seen on various blogs there seems to be some confusion as to how to do ... More About: Blogging , Image , Upload
Suspended
2008-03-30 18:55:00 Unbelievable. I checked my various email accounts this morning and to my surprise found a message from Blogger.com informing me they have temporarily suspended one of my blogs pending a review citing a possible violation of the TOS. Excuse me? The blog in question, testblog568.blogspot.com, was only created a few days ago for the simple ... More About: Blogging
WordPress 2.5 Hits the Shelves
2008-03-30 15:20:00 Well it’s here. Sometime during the wee hours of this morning or even possibly late last night Word Press 2.5 hit the shelves. While the timing may seem strange to some (Saturday - Sunday) I think it was done this way to coincide with WordCamp Dallas. Have I upgraded this blog? No. Will I anytime soon? Probably ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging , Hits
IE and Custom Error Pages
2008-03-21 03:30:00 An oft overlooked part of one’s website is the 404 page. Many of the visitors who see your 404 page will most likely be first time visitors looking for something in particular. Rather than show them some drab looking “404 Page Not Found” message you might want to consider providing something a little more useful. ... More About: Blogging , Word , Press , Error , Pages
Twaddle Them I Say
2008-03-19 18:14:00 “Canadians in four ridings ought to have their little backsides twaddled. Bad voters. Use it or lose it.” The words of Garth “Master of the Universe” Turner. Did it ever occur to Mr. Turner that these people were exercising their right to not vote? Did it occur to him that perhaps they didn’t like any of ... More About: Canada
Cotler Speaks Out
2008-03-19 09:34:00 Kudos to MP Irwin Cotler on two points: his stand on Canada ?s human rights commissions his stand on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad On point number one Mr. Cotler recognizes Canada?s human rights commissions have strayed far from the mandates they were originally set up to follow. …it?s clear Cotler believes the commissions have, in investigating a number of complaints ... More About: World
Enabling Mod Rewrite in Xampp
2008-03-06 09:55:00 As the final release of Word Press 2.5 fast approaches, I’ve been having a lot of fun playing around with 2.4-bleeding which has since become WP 2.5 Beta. Since the changes have been coming fast and furious these last few weeks I’m sure glad I use a Subversion client to connect to the WordPress Subversion Repository ... More About: Software , Blogging
Morphing WordPress
More articles from this author:2008-03-03 06:32:00 The latest design craze sweeping through the world of Word Press is magazine/news style themes. While these themes may be useful to those using WordPress as a CMS I would argue they are not needed for the average blogger. The themes are bloated and probably most folk wouldn’t need or even know how to use most ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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