Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’

WordPress Functions Implementation History Tool

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October 19th, 2007
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WordPress Functions Implementation History Tool: Ozh has come up with a fantastic WordPress Function Implementation History tool that is essentially a way to check when a function was implemented in WordPress and when and if it was removed in a trendy axajified manner, it will let you search across nearly 1900 functions through 31 WordPress releases, from 0.71 to 2.3. He also released a map of WordPress functions through all the versions. Very useful tool indeed. Thank you Ozh!

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Integrate Drupal with WordPress

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October 3rd, 2007
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Integrate Drupal with WordPress: These two competing platforms now have a common bond. This Drupal module will allow you to run/administer a WordPress blog from inside Drupal as a module. The author claims that the module is tested with Drupal 5 and WordPress 2.2.1. In looking through the code, I see no reason why it would not work with 2.3 but I have not tested it. So if you are a Drupal user with a WordPress blog or if you are a WordPress user with a Drupal installation, this is your chance to run the roost from one perch. Features include a single level sign on and synchronization of profile data between WordPress and Drupal.

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Scriblio on WordPress makes Libraries Sing

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Scriblio was released as a public Beta yesterday. For those that have not heard of Scriblio yet,from their about page, it is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. Scriblio is a project of Plymouth State University, supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Scriblio, is completely built on top of WordPress, is highly searchable and offers all the versatility and rich content capabilities of WordPress to the management of Library content. An example site built with Scriblio is the Lamson Library of Plymouth State University. Amazing!

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Blogs and the Mobile Web

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September 27th, 2007
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Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks and the counter arguments from Russell (warning, littered with expletives) made me think about blogs, mobile web and the proliferation of blogs on mobile phones and mobile browsers. Since I am closely involved with many of the technologies that are being bolstered or criticized on those posts, I have my own opinions about some of them. Wireless carrier networks are SLOW: I am not so sure. Sprint has decent speeds and I can surf just fine on my phone or by using it as a modem. It is not as good as my 17 Mbps cable modem, but when I was stuck in a hospital and needed to call my parents in India using Skype via Sprint through my 755p, it worked like a charm. My VPN back to work and most surfing done over the phone was painless and got me through […]

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Upgrading to WordPress 2.3 Dexter

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September 25th, 2007
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Now that WordPress 2.3 Dexter has been released, it is time for everyone to upgrade and check out what the hoopla is all about. Just as in the WordPress 2.3 pre-release coverage, there are a lot of really good resources that discuss preparing your blog for it to be ready for the 2.3 upgrade. Since there is a bigger (relative term, bigger than upgrades in recent memory) chance that many of your plugins and themes might stop working with this new version, checking compatibility and making sure that everything will work as expected is even more important. Here are some resources that might help you make that leap. The WordPress Development Blog has a good article on Preparing for 2.3 I particularly like the list of compatible and incompatible plugins I also like the idea of switching your WordPress install to use Subversion for quick and painless updates Blog Security […]

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WordPress Visual Editor – Do you Use It?

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September 21st, 2007
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One of the very first tasks I always perform on every new WordPress installation I do is to go into my user profile and turn off the visual WYSIWYG editor. I prefer to handle all my formatting markup myself because it gives me more control over the final product. The other day, Mark suggested that most ‘professional’ bloggers also prefer not to use the visual editor. So, the question I throw out to you, the reader, is this – which do you prefer to use, the visual editor or the basic editor, and why? Extra credit: Do you use any formatting plugins for faster, easier, on-the-fly markup? If you use one of these plugins, why do you use that specific markup plugin? For instance, I use TextileWrapper on my own blog because I like how easy it is to add just a single character or two to a line or […]

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WP Plugins, Windows, Subversion and Extend

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September 18th, 2007
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How to Maintain Your WordPress Plugin from a Windows Workstation using Subversion: A step by step, illustrated set of instructions painstakingly put together by Roland on how to use Subversion on a Windows machine and use it to add your plugin(s) to the WordPress Extend section. I love tutorials like this. Thanks Roland.

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WordPress 2.3 Features

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September 17th, 2007
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Many different sites and blogs have documented what they thought were their most desired features in WordPress 2.3. Since I am as excited about this release as I was about WordPress 2.0 (I consider 2.0 to be a significant milestone), I am collating them here with each discussed feature bulleted under each of the links. Design Adaptations Update Alerts for WordPress Inherent Tag Support More SEO Friendliness, better URI redirection Ryans’ Blog Database changes Taxonomy changes, Taxonomy API Plugin Compatibility Aiming for Independence Tagging Adding new tags to your own theme Adding a tag cloud More on Tagging in themes and tag importers from Small Potato UTW Importer Version 3 Template tags for Tags (yes, I know) Michael’s Blog (mdwaffe) Better Post and Page management Sam Ruby Atom Publishing Protocol support Plugin update notification Directly from WordPress Plugin Directory Better, faster, quicker, safer Faster javascript and wp-admin code and styles […]

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WordPress vs Drupal

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September 17th, 2007
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WordPress vs Drupal: Todd Zeigler’s opinions on whether to use Drupal or WordPress to accomplish various publishing tasks depending on the relative ability of each software to excel in particular tasks. Though I agree with some of the premises, saying WordPress Mu is not quite ready for prime time is a very bad generalization and dependent on Todd’s experiences with a very particular need (developing a network of blogs that share content and is centrally managed) that he tried to fill with Mu.

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