babypress on "Problem importing an RSS feed into my Wordpress blog"
25/6/2009 | external link
how did you go, did yo get it working, Im looking at doing the same thing
kmessinger on "Problem importing an RSS feed into my Wordpress blog"
25/6/2009 | external link
Q.
are you trying to use someone's feed as content
A.
I want it to look like a post
Im looking at doing the same thing
It is not good to use someone else's feed as a post in your site. There would definitely be copyright issues.
Tutorial:Manage and Enhance Multi Author Blogs with WordPress 2 point 7
24/6/2009 | external link
Introduction
In this the second part of a two-part article by Jean Baptiste-Jung, we shall learn about managing and enhancing a multi-author blog. In this article, we are going to learn how to create, enhance, and get the most out of your multi-author WordPress blog. Some of the tasks performed are Displaying author picture on posts, Displaying the author’s gravatar picture on posts, Adding moderation buttons to the comments, Getting notified when a new draft is saved, and Allowing multiple authors o
20 Most Beautiful Free Wordpress Themes
24/6/2009 | external link
There are many free Wordpress themes available online. This list compile 20 of the most beautiful and useful ones. Hope one of them is the right choice for your personal blog!
Theme: Creative, Colorful Artistic Wordpress Theme
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Journic Wordpress Theme is a colorful artistic wordpress theme perfect for a personal creative blog. It comes with some basic features plus some features that usualy free themes donâ??t have:
Settings Page: from where you are able to manage and edit all current and upcoming features.
Subscribe Secrion: editable from settings page, you can enable / disable [...]
WordPress Problems
24/6/2009 | external link
Successful software wrote about their problems with WordPress and why they hesitate to rely on a third party for their blog.
I was generally very happy with the service, which has been free so far apart from paying a few dollars for the redirect. But when I tried to log into this blog on Wednesday, all I saw were the chilling words account suspended. The blog itself was still up, but I couldn?t log in to change anything or export it. I emailed wordpress technical support and started ba
Blog comments design considerations
24/6/2009 | external link
Blog comments design is one of the important parts of blog design, but often overlooked. In this article, I will try to identify the most important aspects of designing comments that should be taken into consideration and provide some of examples that I like.
1. Conversation flow
One of the most important aspects of comments is conversation flow. There are many ways to break the flow, but there are also many ways to keep it. Readers who comment on an article usually read existing comments and ofte
Guest Post on Mashable - Top 10 WordPress Plugins to Promote Your Social Media Profiles
23/6/2009 | external link
Within the last few months, I have written several guest posts on Freelance Folder that focus on topics relating to web site design and development. As I spread my wings in the blogging world, I ve recently been approached by Mashable about contributing a WordPress related post to their blog.
Mashable is the world s largest blog focused [...]
xaviermedia: Antivirus for your Wordpress blog: Do you got Wordpress as blogging or CMS (Content Management System) as we do .. http://snipurl.com/katrn
23/6/2009 | external link
xaviermedia: Antivirus for your Wordpress blog: Do you got Wordpress as blogging or CMS (Content Management System) as we do .. http://snipurl.com/katrn
Custom RSS feeds in WordPress
22/6/2009 | external link
I use FeedBurner to track all my feed subscribers, but sometimes I want to provide a different feed to other people (without my feed signature for instance, or using excerpts instead of full feeds).
Now when you use FeedBurner's Feedsmith plugin, this'll redirect all of your normal feeds to FeedBurner, and that's a smart thing to This is a post from Joost de Valk s Yoast - Tweaking Websites.
A good blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Use WestHo
What are "custom taxonomies"?
22/6/2009 | external link
WordPress, with version 2.3, introduced the concept of Tags. As described by Wikipedia, a tag is "a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information". This meant WordPress had a hierarchical way of classifying information (categories), and a non hierarchical way of classifying information. As far back as in 2006, people were discussing This is a post from Joost de Valk s Yoast - Tweaking Websites.
A good blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse,
WordPress MU development, I love it!
22/6/2009 | external link
At OrangeValley, we're currently working on migrating a large Dutch blog network over from it's own proprietary system to a WordPress Multi User install, one of our more serious WordPress MU development projects. There's quite a few things about WordPress MU that I like, but what I like most is, well, that's it's WordPress :)
For This is a post from Joost de Valk s Yoast - Tweaking Websites.
A good blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Use WestHo
Hosting your JS at Google
22/6/2009 | external link
While in a previous post I talked about WordPress database optimization, with this post I intend to show you how to improve your sites performance a bit more by hosting your javascripts with Google.
This only works if you're using jQuery, prototype or another library that is supported by Google's AJAX Librararies API.
While those javascript libraries This is a post from Joost de Valk s Yoast - Tweaking Websites.
A good blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, dow
Updates to the WordPress TextMate bundle
22/6/2009 | external link
With all the new API enhancements in the last few versions of WordPress, I thought it was time to give my WordPress Textmate bundle an update, as I first released it exactly a year ago. Here are the things I've added:
Added 'esc' tab-expansion: with the help of Mark Jaquith's great article Escaping API updates for This is a post from Joost de Valk s Yoast - Tweaking Websites.
A good blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Use WestHost, and you'll
wordpress: RT @photomatt: Ask me a question, I'll pick the best ones and post video
answers on my blog http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/91AAC71151CF ...
21/6/2009 | external link
wordpress: RT @photomatt: Ask me a question, I'll pick the best ones and post video
answers on my blog http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/91AAC71151CF ...
wordpress: @Raanan did an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio on "Rebuilding Iraq, Blog By Blog": http://bit.ly/5i19f #iraqtech
21/6/2009 | external link
wordpress: @Raanan did an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio on "Rebuilding Iraq, Blog By Blog": http://bit.ly/5i19f #iraqtech
Real-Time Search Engine Collecta Launches
19/6/2009 | external link
Collecta, a new search engine, launched today with a unique twist... they're one of the first real-time search engines.
Searching with Collecta, you get real-time results from blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, social sites and various news outlets.
Collecta's homepage gives the following description of the new search engine...
Collecta is not like other search engines.
The web is alive with real-time information. So why search a stale archive? Collecta monitors the update streams of popular real
Top Blogs' Favorite Platforms Identified
19/6/2009 | external link
Whether a given blogger takes pride in being a weirdo or feels safer as part of a crowd, a new report will help him (or her) sort out exactly where he (or she) stands. Pingdom staffers took a close look at which platforms are most common among the most popular blogs.WordPress grabbed first place with no problem, with 27 out of the top 100 blogs (as ranked by Technorati) using it. The platform's fans range from big corporations like the New York Times to individuals such as Chris Brogan.Then ca
TypePad Connects You Via Google, Yahoo, AOL, Wordpress, Etc.
19/6/2009 | external link
Six Apart has made it simple for nearly anyone to sign in to TypePad Connect with other existing accounts via OpenID. If you have an account with Google, Yahoo, Blogger, Vox, LiveJournal, Wordpress.com, or AOL, you can easily sign in. If you've already tried out our recently launched commenting service via TypePad Connect, you know that we built in very basic support for OpenID sign in from the start, explains Six Apart's David Recordon. We did this because we know that just as the future
Pingdom Names Most Reliable Blogging Services
19/6/2009 | external link
Running a blog can be a big nuisance; you've got keep up with current events, write posts, and monitor comments on at least a daily basis. But new Pingdom statistics should lighten the load by helping people make sure their blogs remain accessible.
Pingdom observed nine different blogging services for a period of four months in order to find out which ones suffered the least amount of downtime. The uptime-monitoring company's test ran through March 10th, so its findings should be quite curren




