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Category Archives: WordPress
WordPress 2.5 binary review: 1
OK, I can’t shut up about it: it looks just cool. It now has more stuff than I bargained for. Anyone hosting their WP themselves should be upgrading. I guess I’m aiming for a newer theme, to get all the latest freshness on the frontend, too. As WordPress has progressed, I have dropped plugin after …
Spam control: some choice words now blacklisted
*Public announcement:* Should anyone like to announce anything in the comments section about female breasts, in a colloquial manner, stay away from using the word “boobs”. I just blacklisted it. Use your imaginations. Also, should you want to discuss females with a homosexual orientation, then refrain from the commonplace word “lesbian”, since this also got …
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Microformats, from your blog
So, you write about an upcoming event, so that your readership will know about it. Some read it, some miss it. The online event aggregators never heard about your weblog, and when they scanned it, they saw nothing but regular HTML. [Structured Blogging](http://structuredblogging.org/) has the tools to help those aggregators. By enhancing your “Write Post” …
Technical “news”: New WordPress running this blog
Yes, now I’ve gone and done it: upgraded my blog to WP2. Took me a while to think it up, but now it’s done. Took me all of 10 minutes. 10 other minutes were used to back my files and database up. I know this for a fact since I wrote it down, and I’m …
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More Firefoxness for bloggers: Performancing’s blog plugin
Performancing’s blog plugin is really productive for bloggers. Get it. Quick. Then hit F8. (Um, you need Firefox, of course. It’s XUL.) It’s the blog plugin to end all others.
Delicious: Re-use of metadata
I have now added even more stuff to that bloated sidebar of mine. Perhaps you also have a delicious feed, and a WordPress blog? [Grab this plugin](http://www.w-a-s-a-b-i.com/archives/2004/10/15/delisious-cached/) to get started. The folks at Del.icio.us have made it really simple to use their data. Just look at [their documentation of their HTML feeds](http://del.icio.us/help/html). > HTML feeds …
WordPress Plugins Database
For Mac folk out there, Peter Rukavina has made a screencast about using the Del.icio.us service with a couple of loosely coupled applications Mac OS X. For bloggers, and WordPress users foremost, there are many Del.icio.us plugins to choose from. I’m choosing something from the WordPress Plugins Database, but I shall do some reading on …
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Olle Jonsson on 43 Things
Olle Jonsson on 43 Things is a little page on me, and what my goals are in life. Or, at least as much as I typed in. 43things.com is a social networking site with the social object of personal goals. A very interesting, and stimulating feature was its tie-ins with my blog platform WordPress and …