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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
