For quite awhile now, I’ve been monitoring a specific blog post from May 15th, 2007 which is a tutorial on how to migrate from Drupal 5 to WordPress 2. Many things have changed since then between both pieces of software and thus, the scripts provided on the site will not work. Every now and then, someone publishes a comment that contains a link to an updated version of the script to work with newer versions of Drupal and WordPress. DovDox is the latest blog to publish an updated portion of the script albeit with a caveat. Taking my usual hacksaw-and-duct-tape approach, I simply deleted the portions that didn’t work. That means my version moved all of the posts and comments to the new blog, but didn’t preserve any of their categories. Drupal’s ridiculous “taxonomy” system just isn’t easy to map onto WordPress’s much more rational categories and tags, and in […]
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Archive for November, 2008
New Plugins Add to Feed Add to Feed is a feed enhancement plugin that allows you to easily add a copyright notice and custom text/HTML to your WordPress blog feed. The custom text can be entered before and/or after the content of your blog post. Amazon Plugin Amazon shop plugin that allows a blogger to add products with Amazon associate ID embedded in it and earn revenue by showing Amazon products right into the blog posts. Related Blog Links This WordPress plugin will display the blog links related to your posts and pages. Techytube XHTML This plugin allows you to embed YouTube videos on your blog. ZD YouTube FLV Player Display FLV and YouTube Video in you blog in a Custom Player. WordPress Gallery Slideshow This plugin adds the JW Image Rotator to the WordPress Media. Easy AdSenser Easy AdSenser provides a very easy way to insert Google AdSense code […]
[Continue Reading...]Episode 31 of WordPress Weekly featured a special 1 hour 26 minute interview with none other than Lisa Sabin Wilson, the author of WordPress For Dummies. Keith and I grilled Lisa on the topics of: Writing a book for a piece of software which has an extremely fast development cycle How different versions affect the publishing of the book WordPress For Dummies The Second Edition Lisa’s thoughts on WordPress 2.7 Lisa’s explanation on permalinks and slugs Lisa’s take on premium themes versus free themes much, much, more. Keith and I really enjoyed our time with Lisa and wish her the best for the second edition of WordPress For Dummies. Announcements: The two lucky recipients who will each receive a signed copy of WordPess For Dummies 2nd Edition are Chris Thompson and Lenire. WPWeekly Meta: Next Episode: Friday December 5th, 2008 8P.M. EST Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to […]
[Continue Reading...]Journalized v2 Journalized is a one, two or three column theme available in six different themes, with threaded and paged comments with an administration interface. Wasteland It’s a 5 Column (main content, 2 sidebars and 2 top sections), widget-ready fixed width theme in soothing Creme and Brown colors featuring an author box, author info page, gravatars and with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates. Underground Fixed width, three columns, widget ready theme Weblog Magazine Theme Widget ready, three columns, fixed width theme with adsense / advert ready areas which are easily edited for ease of use and monetization. Available in 10 colors.
[Continue Reading...]Here in the states, it is Thanksgiving. The time of year when most stop to think about what it is they are thankful for. In keeping with that tradition, I wanted to give my thanks to the WordPress development team but the thanks doesn’t end there. I also pass on my thanks to each and every one of you who have contributed code to the WordPress project. I’m no coder and I appreciate those who are to help guide me around the more interesting parts of WordPress. A very special thanks goes out to plugin and theme developers. You folks really enable end users to take WordPress up to the next level. I would also like to give thanks and recognize those who cover WordPress within the community. These are sites which keep users informed, provide great information, and increase the end users knowledge of what this piece of software […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins WP-Niceforms Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones. K2 Hook Up K2 Hook Up exposes the seven hooks in K2 theme to the admin as friendly input boxes, where you place any HTML, CSS, JavaScript or PHP code (including template tags, other WordPress functions, or even code from other plugins) that you like. Custom Post Template Provides a drop-down to select different templates for posts from the post edit screen. The templates replace single.php for the specified post. SuperSlider-Show Animated Gallery slideshow uses Mootools 1.2 javascript replaces WordPress gallery with a slideshow. Use Google Libraries A number of the javascript libraries distributed with WordPress are also hosted on Google’s AJAX Libraries API. This plugin allows your WordPress site to use the content distribution network side of Google’s AJAX Library API, rather than serving these files from your WordPress […]
[Continue Reading...]Sirup Sirup is a magazine and blog layout for WordPress 2.5 and above. It has a fixed width, is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, supports Gravatars and Sidebar Widgets. You can customize the appearance of your site with an options page. Quoting You! A light two column design with sleek and clean lines and cool colors. Olivia Two column, gravatar and widget ready theme with seven different styles. Equilibrium Clean and simple magazine styled widget ready theme. CognoBlue Three column, widget ready, with right and left sidebar SEO theme optimized for Google Adsense. Floral Prints A light three column design with an elegant topper with floral prints and cute little butterfly subjects. Rainy Days A rainy two column design full of the cool wet air of a fresh thunderstorm.
[Continue Reading...]First on the list is a large collection of WordPress video tutorials, tips and tricks ranging from the very basic to the very advanced from SpeckyBoy. This list also includes our very own Weblog Tools Videos which lists various WordPress and blogging videos, tips, tutorials and reviews. Noupe has listed 11 new “Most Wanted” hacks for WordPress in a nice illustrated list. The new hacks include protecting your pictures from hotlinking and Custom Google Search for WordPress. WPMU has received 37 nominations for their WordPress MU awards for 2008 and are looking for people to help choose the winners. View the nominations and vote for them. Michael Kubler has written up a tutorial to make WordPress captioned images work as expected on your WordPress theme. Captioned images were introduced in WordPress 2.6 (I believe). This blog had the same problem till we managed to wrangle the extra CSS code for […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Strip Strip! is a WordPress plugin that allows you hide links from a given comment. Unlike other plugins that do the same purpose, you can restore the links anytime you want. JournalPress A cross-poster supporting multiple LiveJournal Server journals. Speed Test This widget makes it possible that any visitor of your blog can test his bandwidth speed. The widget ist hosted on Amazon S3 storage and checks the speed from the nearest server worldwide. (Page in German) Quizzin Quizzin lets you add quizzes to your blog. This plugin is designed to be as easy to use as possible. Quizzes, questions and answers can be added from the admin side. This will appear in your post if you add a small HTML snippet in your post. My Tag Cloud My tag cloud provides you with a widget that actually gives you the ability to list the tags of your […]
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