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Old blog posts? The silent blog killer.

28 Oct 2009

We talk about a lot of blog topics around here. How to write great posts, how to write compelling titles and how to deal with Search Engine Optimization issues. There is one thing that is often overlooked, old blog posts.
Search engines never forget. If your blog post already has a good bit of traction [...]

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Tags: Blogging, Old Posts, Wordpress

Change how Twitter Tools Formats Your Wordpress Blog Post Tweet

In: Web Authoring

18 May 2009

Alex King’s Twitter Tools Plugin is a must if you are a Wordpress Blogger and Twitter user. It’s most compelling feature is that it can automatically post a Tweet when you post a new blog post. This also works for time delayed posts, it Tweets when the post is published. One of the things I [...]

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Tags: PHP, Twitter, Wordpress

Wordpress Plug-in Spotlight: Upload files from the Wordpress Dashboard with WP Easy Uploader

In: Web Authoring

23 Feb 2009

One of the problems with using a news style theme is that you constantly have to upload files for lead stories, etc. If you aren’t always on a machine with a full fledged blog client or possibly suffer from firewall restrictions like I do, you need to be able to upload your images through the [...]

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Tags: Plugins, Wordpress

Wordpress 2.7 beta1 First Impressions

In: Online| Web Authoring

1 Nov 2008

I decided to take the plunge and give the beta a try on my main blog so here you have it. Philoking.com is running the Wordpress 2.7 beta1 in production. From the viewer perspective it should be transparent. For, it’s already a dream. The back end UI has had a total facelift and some of [...]

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Tags: Wordpress

Wordpress for iPhone?

In: Technology| Web Authoring

22 Jul 2008

Do you believe it? Posting to my blog from my iPod Touch! If you speak iblogging, hit the app store now.

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Tags: Wordpress

Testing the Wordpress 2.6 Image Caption Feature

In: Online| Web Authoring

16 Jul 2008

This is me playing with my new studio setup

So I wanted to do this post to give a friend a chance to see how Wordpress handles this captioning problem, here it is, so disregard as being actual content
This text is pointless, but I want enough to make sure it wraps and we can [...]

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Tags: Wordpress

Wordpress Theme Design: Vista Theme

In: Online| Web Authoring

13 Jun 2008

I decided today to make a Vista theme for my blog. I started with a screen shot of Outlook, and opened it in Adobe Photoshop and started simplifying it. Once I had the basics of what I wanted, I had a single flat jpg that looked something like this…
I brought it into back into [...]

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Tags: Vista, Wordpress

Sorry for the pointless post, testing a Live Writer Plugin…

In: Random| Web Authoring

19 May 2008

Imagine being able to upload a photo to flickr at the same time you use it in your blog.
It uploads the thumb to Wordpress and the actual photo to your flickr account….fancy…. leave a comment for details, it’ exists…

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Tags: Live Writer, Wordpress

Upgrading, please be patient

In: Random| Web Authoring

31 Mar 2008

upgrading my site to Wordpress 2.5, please be patient with the spartan appearance.
Update Update… MS won’t let me FTP from inside the network so I will be on this less than exciting template and plugin-less environment till I get home today.

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Get your Wordpress blogging on Windows Server 2008 Style

In: Technology| Web Authoring

4 Mar 2008

It used to be that if you wanted to run Wordpress, you wanted a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) Server. You could get it working on Internet Information Server but it wasn’t the best and there were definitely issues to be dealt with.
Trouble yourself no more! Zend Technologies, and the “Zend Platform” have taken [...]

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Tags: Wordpress

Moderate Wordpress Comments Like A Pro….

In: Online| Web Authoring

29 Jan 2008

When your blog begins to gain popularity, responding to comments can be a bear. Before we get into this discussion however, I want to provide a few tips for those road weary spam fighting comment responders..
Let the cream rise to the topSpam comments are a nightmare. There are a few ways to fight them, and [...]

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Tags: Wordpress

Wordpress 2.3 Tagging Support with Windows Live Writer

In: Random| Web Authoring

5 Jan 2008

From Joe Cheng – Microsoft Live Writer Team: Note that the manifest file is included out of the box with WordPress 2.3.1 and above.

Out of the box, using the tag feature in Wordpress doesn’t implement the native Wordpress tags. If you use it, it will add some Technorati tags at the bottom of the post. [...]

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Tags: Microsoft, Windows Live Writer, Wordpress

What does Wordpress have in common with Microsoft Windows? Marketshare…

In: Random

27 Dec 2007

I was looking at my site today and I ran across an advertisement that said, "Tired of Wordpress?" Well, of course I am not tired of Wordpress, but curiosity being what it is, I had to go check out the site. The ad was from Telligent’ systems, the makers of Community Server, and it seems [...]

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Wordpress Tips: Top plugins for successful blogging

In: Online

21 Dec 2007

Before I start a flame war with people, I don’t want people to think that this is a be all end all list of the best plugins to use for Wordpress. These are simply the ones that I have found very effective and use on this blog itself. I will take the list of plugins [...]

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Tags: Blogging, Wordpress

Wordpress: Stock Theme vs. Custom Build

In: Online

6 Nov 2007

If you have been a regular reader, you have noticed that my website design has changed a few times lately. I have been trying new things and as much as I can duplicate it in my development environment, it’s just not the same as all my content live with ads.
Yesterday, I settled on the design you [...]