Monday, September 18th, 2006

Integrating a Forum with WordPress

One of the most popular questions I’m e-mailed with is usually along the lines of: How do I integrate a forum with my WordPress (WP) blog?. Often, this is with reference to using WP as a more web site-ish CMS, e.g. a community site. So, I thought I’d kill three birds with this post. One: [...]

Friday, September 15th, 2006

WordPress Plugins Feature for September

It’s hard to believe this is the third installment of the series already. The first was in mid-July, while the second was in mid-August – featuring 19 new WordPress (WP) plugins in total.
For those out of the loop, each monthly installment of the WordPress Plugins Feature series highlights WP plugins released that month (or [...]

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Movable Type 3.3 First Impressions

Yes, Movable Type (MT) 3.3 has been out since early July, but considering the unimpressive changes touted for it in late May, I chose to ignore it. At least, until now.
Recently, I finally decided to move my MT blogs to a new host, and instead of keeping with my older MT 3.2 install or switch [...]

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Blog Spring Cleaning: 5 Baby Steps

I found time for two long-delayed activities today. The first: A haircut, which I had been postponing for weeks. The second: Updating Adobe Acrobat to version 7.0.8 – a move months late. Neither might seem very important from the outset, but they help more than you might expect in my daily routine.
If simple maintainance works [...]

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Using Microformats in WordPress

As introduced earlier, we’ll be looking at how to implement microformats in individual blog platforms. We’ll start with WordPress.
There are two approaches you can take. One: Manually pasting relevant microformat code created via microformat creators. Step-by-step instructions are as follows:

Fill in the web forms over at the relevant microformat creators. Here are the main ones:

hCalendar [...]

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Italian Translation of What is “Using WordPress as a CMS”

Claudio of the WordPress Italy blog recently translated one of my earlier articles in the Using WP as a CMS series into Italian.
Check it out (that is, if you understand Italian ).
P.S.: It’s really nice to see that despite the rampant scraping that many of us are victims of, there are still those [...]

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Managing Multiple Chitika eMinimalls Ads in WordPress

I’d wager that a substantial percentage of product bloggers have learnt the power of Chitika eMinimalls (aff link) over the past year or so – perhaps even to the extent that their eMinimalls revenue exceeds AdSense on some of their product blogs.
So, it shouldn’t be surprising to find bloggers who want to place multiple [...]

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

How to Use WordPress for a Portfolio Site – Part 2

In Part 1, we looked at how to setup a simple (mainly graphic-type) portfolio site using nothing other than WordPress (WP). Modifying the WordPress loop to display thumbnails of your projects, individual project pages that displayed a larger image, and categorical listings that also displayed project thumbnails – all in an organised manner – were [...]