Archive for the 'LinkyLoo' Category
8/2/2008 ↓
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WordPress Facebook Community / Group
If you are a Facebook user, you may want to add this group to your favorites to get good inputs from Facebook users about WordPress.
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7/30/2008 ↓
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Firefly’s Chat-On-A-Webpage : Try it out
Firefly’s Chat-On-A-Webpage Goes Live.: Found via GigaOm, Firefly is a cool little Javascript app that sits on tops of your blog or webpage and allows unfettered chatting and interaction ability for visitors. I have enabled it on WeblogToolsCollection for the time being for people to check it out. Enable at the bottom of the page (look for a small bar), click anywhere on the page and chat away! If you want to put it on your own blog, visit firef.ly WARNING: It is addictive in an “Ooo! Shiny!” sort of way. :) [EDIT] Now gone from this blog. Please use the demo on the firef.ly page to test it out. (8)
7/24/2008 ↓
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Slickdeals.net Blog on WordPress
Slickdeals.net Blog: Slickdeals recently started a new “Slickblog” with WordPress. They seem to have put together a pretty seamless integeration between WordPress and their highly complex vBulletin installation and the comments on their blog are redirected to the main forums. I really like their sidebar items, including their hot topics by ratings and up and coming topics by the number of comments. (2)
7/21/2008 ↓
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WPMU.org - WordPress MU plugins, themes and news
WPMU.org has changed hands and the blog is now written by James and Andrew from Incsub. WPMU.org is intended to be a WeblogToolsCollection for WordPress MU with the latest and greatest news, MU plugins, themes, SEO tips, ‘How to’ guides etc. If you are a WordPress MU user, add their feed to your feed reader and if you have something to share with their readers, take a gander at their contribute page. Incsub has been an ardent supporter and reader of WeblogToolsCollection and they are good people. (4)
7/3/2008 ↓
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Parent Child Themes
I didn’t know these existed, but apparently you can assign a child theme to a parent theme. A child theme inherits all the template files of the parent theme except for the style.css file and functions.php, which take precedence over the original. Ian Stewart of Themeshaper.com published a post ( Functions.php WordPress Child Themes ) which goes into detail on how to redesign your blog the smart way basing the work off of a theme framework. I’m still not sure about the usage of parent-child themes so any help you guys/gals could give me would be appreciated. (13)
7/2/2008 ↓
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Plugin Coders and WordPress 2.6
What Plugin Coders Must Know About WordPress 2.6: Just like it sounds, Ozh has started a post, followed by a lively comment thread, on the challenges that can be faced by plugin coders with WordPress 2.6. This might be a good time (WordPress 2.6 Beta 2 is out) to start digging into your plugins to get them to be 2.6 compatible. (3)
6/28/2008 ↓
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Google Trends for Websites
Google Trends: weblogtoolscollection.com provides (slightly) interesting facts on your blog. Though the product is free, signing in is required to see the number estimates. Not all sites seem to have a lot of data in Google Trends but it was fun to browse the various links. Most interesting to me were the “also visited” section and the “also searched” section. Matt Cutts had an interesting writeup on Google Trends for websites a little over a week ago. (6)
6/26/2008 ↓
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For The Love Of 2.3
James Dimick, author of the Easy Admin Color Schemes plugin for WordPress has released a color scheme based exclusively on WordPress 2.3. Now, when you install this plugin, the default color scheme selected is called “For the Love of 2.3” which will take the new WordPress and make it look like the old. Something many WordPressers have wanted since the release of 2.5. However, James mentions that:It isn’t a completely faithful recreation but I think it’s pretty darn close.
The scheme was created purely from CSS with no modifications to the core code. So while you might not be able to make WordPress 2.5 look similar to the way WordPress 2.3 did in terms of the user interface, you can at least slap on old faithful for that nostalgic look. (11)
6/21/2008 ↓
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WordPress: Did you Know?
That if you change your URI after a post has been published, the old URI continues to work while the links are changed to the new one? (29)
6/17/2008 ↓
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All In One SEO Lives On
For those of you who may not have heard, it was recently discovered that the popular All In One SEO Plugin for WordPress would be no longer updated or supported past WordPress 2.5.1. The plugin is currently compatible with 2.5.1 but may not work with future versions of WordPress. However, I have managed to get a hold of the plugin author and he informed me that he believes the plugin will not die. He is currently in discussions with a number of other developers to continue maintenance of the plugin. He also expressed interest in the idea of having the plugin integrated into the core of WordPress. *UPDATE* It looks like the plugin has found a new home. A WordPress.org user who goes by the username hallsofmontezuma who is also the plugin author of the WP Security Scan plugin as well as the SMS Text Message plugin has taken over the development of the All In One SEO Plugin. The plugin can now be found on the Semper Fi Web Design website. I want to personally extend a hearty thanks to Uberdose who was the original author of the plugin. You can’t talk about WordPress and SEO without mentioning the All In One SEO Plugin. Thanks for deciding not to stop the project but instead, found a new home for it. I learned about the new plugin author via the Imbloggingthat blog. (36)
6/16/2008 ↓
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10 Video Tutorials for Learning Basic Web Design Skills
10 Video Tutorials for Learning Basic Web Design Skills: Some interesting video tutorials linked from Mashable that could help budding web designers or dabblers put a new sheen on their existing blog or website. Of interest are such video tutorials as “How to turn any web template into a WordPress theme“. (4)
6/13/2008 ↓
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Useful WordPress Tricks (for the Theme Designer)
Useful WordPress Tricks: StylizedWeb has an interesting article on simple but useful WordPress functions and code tricks that can make your theme succint, short and keep it optimized. Examples are simple to understand an include code to copy and paste to try on your own. (4)
6/2/2008 ↓
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Create Dynamic Sidebars
Richard Hooper of WP Project.com has published an interesting post which explains how to create dynamic sidebars. As it stands, there is no way to assign widgets to only appear on specific pages of your WordPress Powered blog in the back end. Using Richard’s method, you can create your own sidebar.php file and assign various widgets or plugins to only show up on specific sections of your blog. This is great if you want to display a widget on a SINGLE post template versus the front page. Richard also adds thatAside from creating a dynamic sidebar, this approach breaks up your sidebar code into smaller, more manageable chunks.
Perhaps we should coax Richard into turning this into a plugin in which normal users can then assign widgets to appear on certain page templates. Here is a question I have. You can use this method to assign plugins/widgets to appear on page templates, but outside of hardcoding those templates, can you manually assign widgets to appear on certain pages without having to place PHP code into the page itself. For example, if I have an about page, and I have a contact page, is there a way to assign a widget to show up on the about page but not the contact page, even though they are both on the same page template. Does that sort of granularity and control exist? (18)
6/1/2008 ↓
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If Plugin Deactivation Breaks Your Blog
Ever deactivate a plugin, only to have it crash your blog? Typically, this will result in a “Fatal error: Call to undefined function.” which is then displayed on the front end of your site. According to John Lamansky, the reason this error occurs is because the theme is still calling on the plugin you deactivated.
John Lamansky has put together a list of steps that you should perform to alleviate this issue entitled, What To Do If Plugin Deactivation Breaks Your Blog. Typically, deleting the plugin file from your plugin directory usually solves most problems. However, John’s list of steps guides you through the process of determining which bits of code from the failed plugin are causing the errors and then removing those lines of code.
If you have ever gone through the experience described above, please let us know how you went about fixing the issue.
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5/8/2008 ↓
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Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done
Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done: Just like it sounds, LifeHacker lists the top 10 tools, according to them, to get the job of blogging done. If you have ever been to a WordCamp and heard Lorelle speak, she has some of the best power blogging tips that I have ever come across. JohnP has some pretty effective tips on power blogging as well. (7)











