Category — Wordpress
170 Spoons
If you're looking for a great new resource for tech tips and tutorials that are easy to understand, I think you should check out the new site by team Orangejack, 170 Spoons.
Not only are you going to learn some really cool things, but you're going to find some new ways of doing things online that's going to make your life easier.
And who doesn't want easier, right?! Right!
Check out 170 Spoons (because you'll be kicking yourself if you don't!)
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February 29, 2008 1 Comment
Taking a tumble?
The more I play with my own tumblog, the more I think that — some day soon — my entire site will be a tumblog. (Tumblog? What's that?) Getting my day-to-day out there alongside my (seemingly) more developed thoughts harkens back to why I started blogging in the first place.
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January 27, 2008 3 Comments
Streaming at you like a… stream
I've implemented (for now) my Lifestream in the sidebar of my blog. The goal is to give you some (possibly unwanted) insight into my day.
I'm using the SimpleLife plugin for Wordpress to grab my various RSS feeds and aggregate them into my Lifestream. It's a concept that nf0 introduced to me months and months ago, but it is just now being developed as a self-hosted plugin.
For now, my Lifestream will simply link to headlines from my blog, my flickr photos, what's playing on my iTunes via last.fm, my twitter posts, and my del.icio.us links, as well as random musings (which don't quite merit their own blog posts) on my Tumblog.
I will also be rolling my Lifestream into one tasty RSS feed - if you're so inclined.
Why? Well, it's pretty cool to play around with, for starters. I'm also thinking that it might come in pretty handy for a site redesign I have in mind later this year.
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January 9, 2008 2 Comments
Wordpress Category Feeds
I've added category feeds in addition to my main blog RSS feed.
If you're interested in doing the same, here's the code I used in my Sidebar template:
<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&feed=RSS&feed_image=icon_url'); ?>
The command shows the Category list alphabetically, along with the archive count, and an image link to the RSS feed. To do the same on your Wordpress blog, replace the icon_url with the your own image URL (ex: http://www.this.com/that.gif). There's more template tags available in the Wordpress Codex, so go nuts.
The resulting list looks like this:
(16)
(17)
(5)
(54)
(132)
(22)
(137)
(40)
(85)
(18)
(12)
(37)
(9)
(13)
(54)
(11)
(22)
(16)
(6)
(11)
(3)
(2029)
(132)
(7)
(11)
So, if you like it when I'm geeky but could do without the football talk, there's probably a category feed or two of interest to you.
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November 25, 2006 Comments Off
How To: Switch from MovableType to Wordpress
I switched from MovableType to Wordpress this week, something I had been putting off for a long time because I had such a highly modified install of MT with a large number of posts & comments. Because mine was a somewhat non-typical install, I had to pull a few tricks to migrate. Here's a recap, plus links to many of the sources I found useful. [Read more →]
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November 18, 2006 Comments Off
How To: Export many entries from MovableType
In the process of moving from MovableType to Wordpress, I found that MovableType will not export large numbers of entries. My blog was so big, that MT's default Export Entries feature would time out, copying less than half of my blog.
In order to export all of the entries from my large blog, I had to create the following custom Export Entries template. [Read more →]
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November 18, 2006 1 Comment
Hello, Wordpress
I'm migrating from MovableType to Wordpress. If all goes well, there won't be too many problems around here. ((fingers crossed))
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November 15, 2006 3 Comments
