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Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Loop

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April 4th, 2008
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The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Loop: Ah, the famed WordPress loop that runs it all. Ronald has done a very nice job of identifying global variables in the WordPress loop in the past. Much like that post, this guide is for themers and plugin developers who want the inside scoop with some technical details on how things progress and what each of the pieces of code mean and how they do their job. The release of the fantastic 2.5 Brecker, all of this useful documentation being put together by the community and the tremendous theme designs being released, makes me want to add some fuel to the fire and build up the fever pitch. Stay tuned to this channel for some exciting news.

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Trackbacks: Still Useful?

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February 2nd, 2008
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Six Apart created the Trackback specification as a way to enable bloggers to communicate between each other via a link or acknowledgement. My question to the reader: in what ways do you use Trackbacks? Do you still find Trackbacks useful? With the growing Trackback spam, how do you keep up with legitimate bloggers?

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Technorati Lacks Authority

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December 19th, 2007
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Those in the blogosphere will at one time or another hear of a service called Technorati. What is Technorati anyways? Technorati is a search engine for blogs that scours the web to try and tell you what’s being said about what and by whom. In order to tell which blogs are the more popular of the bunch, Technorati uses a ranking system that determines how many people have linked to a blog which is called (Authority) and how many people have added that blog to their Technorati favorites. BlogStorm has published an interesting post which clearly illustrates the need for a major overhaul of the Technorati ranking algorithm. In this article, BlogStorm describes four different blogs that have a high authority level and at times, a ranking of 1 within the Technorati ranks. Two of the blogs mentioned are authored by two of the biggest names in the WordPress arena, […]

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Top 10 Tips for .. Huh What?

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December 16th, 2007
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Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger: In many of my daily reads, I come upon an article or a link that makes me go Huh?!? “Original Blogger” Jorn Barger gives us his Top 10 Tips for new bloggers. Blogging has evolved a lot since he coined the term and intended it to be no more than a list of interesting links. Still, this post in Wired gives us an insight into what the original Weblog first was intended to be and prompted me to think about how it has evolved over the years. To me a blog is so many things at once that it is difficult to classify and the diversity of the term and the variety of purpose is what makes blogs so interesting to me. What is your blog to you? What purpose does it serve?

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Ten Reasons to choose WordPress

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November 11th, 2007
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Blogging, WordPress

I cherish the ability to communicate and I try to praise and imitate those who have the ability to communicate ideas lucidly and with alacrity. With that intent in mind, here are the Ten Reasons to choose WordPress. Aimed at the non-technical, could-be blogger, I could not have created a more succinct and convincing list myself. I first found WordPress back when b2 was still alive, and had the WordPress bug bite me the minute I downloaded the zip file. I have not looked back since. What are your reasons for using WordPress?

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OneClick Install Firefox Extension

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August 12th, 2007
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Blogging, Cool Scripts, WordPress Plugins

OneClick Install Firefox Extension: Anirudh had written the OneClick Plugin for WordPress that allows a user to upload and install themes and Plugins to their WordPress blog with one click. But to make his plugin more useful and extensible, he has realsed a Firefox Extension for it as well. The Firefox Extension adds a contextual menu item to your Firefox that will let you directly install plugins and themes from their zip download locations. Just right click on the download link for a plugin for theme and install it on your blog with One Click. Thanks to Digital Inspiration for pointing out the extension.

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WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts

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July 22nd, 2007
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Blogging, WordPress Hack

Thanks to TipMonkies for the idea via Lifehacker Bold: Alt+SHIFT+b Italics: Alt+SHIFT+i Link: Alt+SHIFT+a Blockquote: Alt+SHIFT+q Code: Alt+SHIFT+c Read More: Alt+SHIFT+t Unordered List (ul): Alt+SHIFT+u Ordered List (ol): Alt+SHIFT+o List Item (li): Alt+SHIFT+l Here are a few of the others that I have featured here in the past: Advanced Editor: Alt+SHIFT+v Publish the Post: Alt+SHIFT+p ins: Alt+SHIFT+s del: Alt+SHIFT+d Unquote/outdent: Alt+SHIFT+w Undo: Alt+SHIFT+u Redo: Alt+SHIFT+y Edit HTML: Alt+SHIFT+e Align Left: Alt+SHIFT+f Align Center: Alt+SHIFT+c Align Right: Alt+SHIFT+r More from the comments: Headers: Ctrl+[number] to get various header sizes on highlighted text. Thanks Henk Have any more to share with us that we might have missed?

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WordCamp 2007

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July 21st, 2007
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Blogging, WordPress

WordCamp 2007 starts today (well, there were some festivities yesterday) and since I have to miss it again this year, I hope some visitors record the presentations and provide podcasts for the rest of us. The speakers list includes some pretty cool people that I would have liked to listen to and meet but C’est la Vie. I hear there is going to be some cool schwag as well. If you are at Wordcamp, did you hear or see anything cool? Are you having a good time? Please contact me with reports if you think they are bloggable. Just a word of warning, I am on the road, so response/posting will be slow.

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Six Apart and Automattic Compared

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July 10th, 2007
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Blogging, Business of Blogging

Six Apart & Automattic Compared: A comparison of two of the three blogging juggernauts on the web. Though the comparison is mildly interesting from a historical novice’s point of view, I think the article is missing a few things. Since it was written by a business professor, I would have expected more analysis and forecasts rather than a rehashing of the past events in a company history narrative. Furthermore, a story of MT and WP does not make sense without Blogger and it should have been included. There are very interesting business model and structure type details of all three companies that I believe are instrumental in their success in each of their arenas and the underlying competitive tension amalgamated with a deep sense of respect and jealousy among each of the competitors would have made for very interesting business reading. In spite of my perceived shortcomings, Carthik is mentioned […]

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