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WPTeX: WordPress to pdf ebook with LaTeX

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January 26th, 2008
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WPTEX: Turn you wordpress blog into a pdf ebook using LaTeX Now I wrote my Masters Thesis in Microsoft Word and I would rather pull my hair out one at a time than do that again. However, I bring that up because I jealously watched as the other cohorts of my MS class put together their thesis with LaTeX with relative ease and perfect formatting. WPTeX will let you publish your blog as a PDF eBook using LaTeX and includes a lot of very cool features such as auto indexing and TOC generation. It is released under the GPL I will have to show this to my blogging dad who will love to have an eBook made out of his blog on research of health and wellness!

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Mobile Phone optimized WordPress

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January 24th, 2008
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WordPress Hack, WordPress Plugins

Mobile Phone Optimized WordPress: Thanks to a tip from Amit, I found a quick and painless way to optimize a WordPress blog (or any blog with a feed for that matter) for use with a mobile phone. The trick is to use Google’s excellent mobile news readers to display your blog. The resulting content is not only lightning fast, it is also well formatted and relatively easy to navigate. To see for yourself, craft the following URI in your browser. http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[Your Feed URI] This is the optimized mobile version of Weblog Tools Collection. Once you have the feed, just create a link on your blog for readers to follow and/or bookmark. Of note is the excellent WordPress Mobile plugin from Alex for those who like a one stop shop.

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WordPress Admin Theme: Deconstructed

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Deconstructed WP admin theme: Read about this new admin theme on BloggingPro and had to check it out. Deconstructed is a highly minimalistic simple theme for the WordPress backend that is focussed on responsiveness and cleanliness. The menu highlight is a little bright for my taste (as has been noted by others) but the theme is worth a looksee. Installation is simple via a plugin and the author welcomes changes and modifications to the original theme.

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2007 Crunchies: The Winners

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January 19th, 2008
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2007 Crunchies: The Winners: Automattic won both categories they were nominated for. I love the way “long tail” is misspelled (I hope) in the article. Congratulations to Toni, Matt and the rest of the Automattic team!

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WordPress/Automattic Publisher Blog

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January 17th, 2008
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WordPress Publisher Blog is (going to be) written by various team members at Automattic and their goal is to help all publishers get the most out of WordPress. They will cover features that are often overlooked, highlight plugins that extend WordPress functionality and showcase interesting sites being built with WordPress. They are looking for publishers working on innovative projects using WordPress and would like to field questions from users. From the comment that Raanan left on PressedWords, it would appear that they want to focus on large WordPress installations that are doing lots of custom work and help publishers find the proper resources. A definite daily read!

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Suggestions For Plugin Standards

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January 14th, 2008
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Blogging Essays, WordPress, WordPress Plugins

This post is not written by me but is reproduced, with permission, from a post in the Weblog Tools Collection News Forums. It was written by Weathervane. Since  Frank has downloaded 530 plus plugins, and most of his thoughts are well expressed and documented, this post might trigger some good conversation. Please chime in. As a new WordPress blogger, I wanted to customize my installation, so I began a review of the available plugins. My first installation of WordPress was version 2.3.1. Because this version was a significant change, there was a list of v2.3.1-compatible plugins, of which I downloaded and tried most of them. Since then, I’ve downloaded 530± plugins (this was what’s left after deleting extensions of commercial services), and tried/tested most of them. Five-hundred± is an incredible number and rivals, I think, Photoshop actions or plugins—and there are lots of those. The WordPress plugins community is impressively […]

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CoverItlive.com: Liveblog any event

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January 14th, 2008
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Blogging News, LinkyLoo

CoverItlive.com is a free (for now) service that allows you to live blog events and publish items directly to any publishing platform. Now this is pretty commonplace and can easily be done with WordPress (and a few extra plugins) but CoverItLive makes it easier and quicker to embed a variety of media and interact with your readers in real time. There is also an instant replay function, which as inane as that might be, might become handy at some point. Now I barely ever liveblog anything, but I can see a lot of use for this at conferences. Have you liveblogged anything before?

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NewsGator Makes Client Apps Free

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January 11th, 2008
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Blogging News, LinkyLoo

NewsGator Makes Client Apps Free: NetNewsWire 3.1, FeedDemon 2.6, and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. and NewsGator Inbox 3.0 are now free to download and use. FeedDemon is a desktop news aggregator that I helped beta test and I have used off and on and Bradbury is a tremendous developer. If you were looking for a powerful desktop aggregator that is easy to use, FeedDemon might be the ticket.

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Best Blog Typography – Performancing Awards 2007

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January 4th, 2008
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Best Blog Typography – Performancing Awards 2007 Reader’s Choice Poll WeblogToolsCollection.com has been chosen to be one of the contenders for the Best Blog Typography Award from Performancing.com. The blog with the most number of votes by January 10, 2007 wins the 2007 Reader’s Choice award. They define typography as “design and arrangement of fonts”. We are in some tremendous company (ALA, Freeland Switch etc.), but please vote for us if you feel that we deserve the honor. Check out and vote for contestants in the rest of Performancing Awards. Thanks Performancing [EDIT] How could I forget the original designer? Thanks João

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