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San Francisco WordPress Meetup

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March 15th, 2007
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San Francisco WordPress Meetup Just a reminder of the San Francisco WordPress meetup event on Friday at the Chaat Cafe on 3rd street. They have Schwag. 🙂

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WP Plugin: Notify Author on Comment Moderation

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March 15th, 2007
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WordPress Plugins

WordPress notifies the admin of a blog when a comment requires moderation. This is done regardless of the author of the post who does not get a notification at all (of moderated comments). I wrote a very simple plugin for WordPress that notifies the author of the post as well as the admin of the blog when a comment requires moderation. The plugin also assumes that you have moderation notify turned on in options. If the admin is the author of the post, he/she receives only one email. Installation is as simple as download, unzip, copy to wp-content/plugins and activate. This plugin is running on this blog and has been tested on all 2.x versions of WordPress. Please submit bugs and suggestions. Download modnotifyauthor.zip Update: Download the updated version of Moderation Author Notify.

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What’s in My Blogging Toolkit?

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March 15th, 2007
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Blogging, Business of Blogging

What’s in My Blogging Toolkit? I read this post from Ian via Problogger and since I am always interested in finding new tools and applications, I wanted to ask my readers on what they use to make their lives easier. Of course, a post such as this is incomplete without my own input. Here is a small subset of what is on my computer and my primary tools for blogging. WordPress, of course: Quintissential, versatile blogging and CMS platform. Firefox, latest: ALL of my browsing is done via this browser. I carry a USB key with portable apps Foxmarks, latest: Synchronize my bookmarks across computers Bloglines: Read and read some more Statcounter: Almost all my stats needs Feedburner: Feed stats Google Alerts: Versatile email alerts Google News Search: Highly versatile news search, I love the search by date feature Techmeme: Hot tech news aggregator. Though this blog has never had […]

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SXSW: Scaling Your Community

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March 13th, 2007
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Blogging News, WordPress

SXSW: Scaling Your Community: Good summary of Matt’s talk on scaling the WordPress community and his insights into the process of building one of the most powerful Open Source models. I have never had a chance of hearing Matt speak outside of podcasts and the occasional video (maybe at WordCamp this year) but his insights are definitely worth the read. I wish Matt was podcasting his talks. In related questions, do you have WordCamp plans?

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Blog Vacation Day

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March 11th, 2007
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Business of Blogging, General

Here at WeblogToolsCollection, we try to put aside Sunday as Blog Vacation Day. Of course, I am violating that theory by writing this post but for the most part, we set aside Sunday to put our house in order. We clean posts, trim and manage comments and spam, play with the code and plugins, mess with the ads, reply to emails, formulate weekly posts, plan out the rest of the week and generally just post nothing on the live blog. That gives us a reason to come back on Monday and start afresh and I believe it really helps. Do you have a Blog Vacation Day? If so, which one and why?

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R Rated Avatars

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March 8th, 2007
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Blogging News

MyBlogLog is a good tool. I use it not quite everyday, but often enough to see how many readers are in the WeblogToolsCollection Community and who is visiting the blog. I would like to have regular up to date click through information (and ad click though information, that is a very cool feature, BTW) but since I do not pay for it, I get stale data. Stale data is useful but in a “meh, shrug” sort of way. However, I have been bothered by one aspect of MyBlogLog that I have not been able to shrug off. R rated avatars. I thought I had read somewhere that MyBlogLog would watch out for these and filter them out but I have seen them become more and more popular, especially among the marketing crowd. I have no right to be, nor any qualification to be moral police. But since I cannot police […]

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AuctionAds

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March 6th, 2007
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Blogging News, Business of Blogging, General

AuctionAds is another new way for bloggers to make a little more money on the side. AuctionAds consist of eBay auction ads on keywords chosen by the blogger or publisher. Although the service was launched today and there is little information on how much one could earn, AuctionAds promises to pass on almost all of the revenue to the publisher of the ad. I thought of this service as an automated eBay affiliate program that pays almost as much as that program but has less hassle. TechCrunch has a quick rundown of the business details on AuctionAds and since AdSense does terribly on this blog, I figured I would try them out. You can see the ads on the sidebar. Another interesting fact from their FAQ is that you may run these ads alongside Google AdSense and they do have an affiliate program. If you are trying them out, I […]

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WP Translations: mo and po files

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March 6th, 2007
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General, HOW-TO, WordPress, WordPress FAQs

You can install WordPress in various different languages and it is very easy to setup these translations. You can find more information on translating WordPress into your own language on the WordPress Codex. The Codex also has a lot of information on existing translated versions of WordPress and the .mo language files. They are very simple to use. You just copy the .mo file to the wp-includes/languages folder and change/add the following line to add the filename of your language translation file define (‘WPLANG’, ”); to define (‘WPLANG’, ‘es_ES’); if your language filename is es_ES.mo I suggest making this change before you install WordPress. This is all well and good, but this post is more about dispelling some of the myth and confusion surrounding .mo files. .mo files are not human readable by their nature and cannot be edited directly. You would need to install a version of poedit on […]

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50 Most Important People on the Web

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March 5th, 2007
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Blogging News, LinkyLoo

The 50 Most Important People on the Web: Matt Mullenweg is #16. He leads over other tech and web celebrities such as Jerry Yang (#19), Ray Ozzie (#22), Robert Scoble (#25) and Michael Arrington (#30).

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