Quicklinking del.icio.us bookmarks for November 25th through June 9th
Posted on June 9, 2008
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These are my links for November 25th through June 9th:
- Show the Intro to Password Protected Posts in WordPress · Dagon Design -
- cforms II » delicious:days -
- Wordpress and the custom fields, a overlooked feature -
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2.5 + spam anyone?
Posted on May 2, 2008
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Has anyone, like me, found a barrage of spam not being trapped by Akismet over the past few days since 2.5.1 came out? Being somewhat too busy I am only getting round to the 2.5 -> 2.5.1 upgrade now. But first - a bunch of spam to hand pick out of the comments. Shows how effective Akismet is normally I guess - hopefully 2.5.1 related. Fingers crossed.
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Try ScribeFire - it’s nice
Posted on February 20, 2008
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Finally - I’ve succumbed to a browser plugin editor for WordPress. I’m an old fashioned guy and tend to stick to the core admin theme, and core editor just… because. But frustration at switching accounts and waiting 20 minutes for the ‘add hyperlink’ panel to appear (ok I exaggerate) started getting to me. So this post is being written using ScribeFire. Try it. It’s nice.
“ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.
ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.”
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new window, or not new window
Posted on February 11, 2008
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I got in a heated argument in the pub last night about hyperlinks. I know. Geek. Capital G.
Anyway. Apparently I’m an egomaniac because I sometimes target links at a new window. I’m up there with war criminals and drug dealers. I am, not to put too fine a point on it, evil.
In my defence I argued that most sane people use tabbed browsers now, so rather than opening a new window, you simply cause a new tab to appear.But the vehemence was strong. And it was strong from non geeks too. People who just casually surf told me that new window = dodgy site in their minds.
So guess what - I’m cutting down. New window links will be fewer and further between. Sometimes I can admit I’m wrong. At least in part.
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seo - websitegrader.com
Posted on February 10, 2008
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A nice new free SEO analysis tool which bundled a bunch of actions into a single form submission. It even emails you a link to a saved version of the report, so you don’t even have to wait for it to do it’s thing.
You get a detailed analysis, with recommendations, and a score out of 100. I guarantee you’ll think you should have scored higher! I guarantee it. Wordpressguy.com scores 71. Which isn’t too bad, but must improve!
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prologue in practice
Posted on February 9, 2008
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The hype and anti-hype around the prologue theme has been sizeable. And to an extent justified. I’m loving the ’secure twitter’ feel of it. Where I worked on a number of projects almost exclusively in IM - I’m now working on a couple in a prologue environment and I have to say, it is MUCH easier to focus on a single project without interruption.
As a workflow tool it is working for me. And it’s free. And it was easy to install. Sometimes I just LOVE WP.
All I need now is a meta - prologue which allows me to aggregate all my prologue feeds. I’m using yahoo pipes to achieve this at the moment, which is okay… but a nicely skinned version would be better. I need an extra 20 hours a day!
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tag this - scary but fun
Posted on February 8, 2008
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Tag this is a new plugin aiming to crowdsource the tagging of your blog posts. Lazy bloggers will be delighted! The drive behind the plugin was the introduction of native taggin in wordpress 2.3:
“How and who the hell will tag my old articles?” Tags are awesome
Can’t argue with that. I’m testing this on another blog to see how quickly spam becomes a problem. Hopefully it won’t as one of the most interesting things I observe in my stats is how people tag my posts in social bookmarking sites like delicious. Often I’ll retag a post to reflect how other people see it. Especially sticky posts that make it into stumbleupon. It does seem to extend the life of the post.
The panel is large, but nicely formatted. If you are comfortable with hacking CSS you can restyle pretty easily.
Link to the plugin release page here. It makes interesting reading, going into some detail about the birth of the plugin.
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copyright violation nonsense
Posted on February 7, 2008
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Another great post on lorelle - this time about
confusion between wordpress the software and wordpress the host / ISP. How often do I have to explain THIS one to people!
If you only remember one line - remember this one “Going after WordPress in this instance is like going after Microsoft for copyright violation of content printed from Word.”
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im in ur theme - stylin ur blog
Posted on February 6, 2008
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I love lolcats and fails and funny stuff like this. I’m working on a theme to allow authors to upload an image, give the post a title, and have an auto constructed lolcat image.
Using a combination of flash image and text replacement code, and good old fashioned CSS. If anyone knows of anything existing along these lines, drop me a line / comment!
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Akismet just saved me hours
Posted on February 6, 2008
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Wordpress guy has been a bit lazy & distracted recently. I haven’t been updating here as often as I would have liked for a loooong time. This has led to a bit of a spam problem building up. Akismet to the rescue.
Looking at my Comments tab I see masses of unmoderated comments, the majority are likely spam. Oh no. Quick - check Akismet. Disaster - I haven’t enabled it. Now I remember, I changed wordpress.com addresses and got halfway through updating the key when I had to run. Disaster. Quick - enter the new key.
On flipping back to the comments tab, Akismet has already caught 2 NEW spam posts. Good Akismet:
But what about those 8783 awaiting moderation, and what about the comments that got through that are spammy? Delete! Simple as that. SO apologies if you’ve left a comment recently - you’ve been deleted. You haven’t been spammed - that would be uncool - just deleted.
Normal service should now resume! btw - in the time I’ve taken to write this post Akismet has caught 44 more spam comments. Good old Akismet. Like having a cleaner!
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