Awesome WordPress Tips

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1. Fonzo (12 comments.) says:

   7/15/2006 at 4:22 am

   I have used that bookmarklet feature a few times. If you tend to blog from the same location, then it is definitely a nice feature. I love the one-click post.

   However, nowadays I find that Word and drafts are my best friends. Any random thoughts I have for great posts get thrown into Word, edited, and eventually added as a draft. It gets a little troublesome though, as on average I have about four or five drafts at any given time.
2. Yves Roumazeilles (1 comments.) says:

   7/15/2006 at 8:34 am

   Four or five drafts? Only? I was just looking into my own and found that I have a little over twenty drafts. I tend to keep short series of posts while they are being prepared. When ready, I post one every other day or so (nice to be able to plan posting in WordPress) and I can keep working on other things, just inserting a couple of news in between when I feel like it (and I have time for it).
3. Chewxy (8 comments.) says:

   7/15/2006 at 11:37 am

   In all my years of blogging (from lycos html diaries to blogger to WP)… I’ve never really find any shortcuts for myself. To this date I still type html in the entry (hence the extreme invalidation for XHTML) and still do things pretty much the old fashioned way… maybe I should find some shortcuts to do some stuff. I can’t get used to the AJAX interface thing on WP.com so I didn’t bother to upgrade my wordpress.. Gosh.. I sound like an old man who’s reluctant to change!

   Oh yes, I delete my drafts every now and then, to clear the junk.
4. Scott McDaniel (1 comments.) says:

   7/17/2006 at 12:02 pm

   I use both digg and del.icio.us at scottmcdaniel.com to act as a form of asides. I either digg a new link or add a del.icio.us bookmark for the sites I see and want to share. Both these services have javascript snippets I use to pull the lists with my comments on to my home page. Not only can I share the raw lists with readers but it reminds me of things I want to blog about.
5. Jay (1 comments.) says:

   7/17/2006 at 7:57 pm

   Yes, Press It is wonderful. (And I didn’t even know you could highlight text that would get copied into the post field until I read this here!) I did have the problem that Press It was opening up in the same window as the page I wanted to blog about, but changing the javascript code to this fixed the problem.

   My biggest tip that I enjoy is that I’ve customed quicktags.js extensively for the way I write posts. I also have a lot of CSS styles and div wrappers that I use. Now that they’re buttons and shortcuts, I don’t have to write out the code any longer. True, I’ve got to make sure I don’t overwrite this file when applying updates, but that inconvience is worth having my shortcuts.
6. erik (5 comments.) says:

   7/18/2006 at 2:03 am

   Uploading. On Multi-User/Author Websites all images, files are stored in one single Directory by default. Some Disadvantages of this: it leads into Filename-Concurrence, and a very huuuuge Directory. In the end you’re confronted with chaos.
   After taking a look at several Plugins for Uploading/File-Managing all seemed bad for MultiUser Blogs: Users can Browse other Users Images, rename them, etc.
   But fortunately there is “Organizer” by http://www.imthi.com that allows seperating Uploads into each User’s/Author’s own Subdirectory. Limit the Maximum-Size of the Directory, It works with Role-Manager and brings a lot of comfort.