Archive for August, 2007

Displaying Flickr images in sidebar or footer of WordPress blog

Miriam Schwab | August 30, 2007 | 3 Comments

We were building a site where we wanted a strip of flickr images from a specific flickr group, or with specific tags, to show up in the footer, and to update automatically as new images became available on the flickr group or with those keywords. The best solution seemed to be ... View Post

Optimize your database with Optimize DB plugin

| August 29, 2007 | 0 Comments

After a while, WordPress blogs and sites can start to feel a bit slow, and this is often a result of a cluttered database. Being a dynamic platform, WordPress stores its information in database tables. As you activate and deactivate plugins, information may be added to existing tables, or new tables may be created ... View Post

TechSmith’s SnagIt now publishes directly to WordPress.com

| August 29, 2007 | 0 Comments

For those of who aren't familiar with it, SnagIt is an amazing screen capture tool with a slew of features. The creators of SnagIt, TechSmith, have now released their free SnagIt blogging-output accessories. According to their ... View Post

WordCamp Israel is under way!

| August 28, 2007 | 3 Comments

Here is a great example of the power of blogging. One guy in Israel, Tal Tzafrir read about WordCamp Beijing, and asked on his blog if we should organize a WordCamp Israel. Well, within minutes the response was enthusiastic, and ... View Post

New WordPress plugin for Kontera users

| August 28, 2007 | 2 Comments

Kontera has created a WordPress plugin to make integration of their service into WordPress sites and blogs more streamlined. For those of you who are not familiar with Kontera, it is a way to monetize your site by automatically adding hyperlinks to keywords within your text, which when clicked on, take readers to ... View Post

Ensure full text feeds with Full Text Feed plugin

| August 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

In WordPress, you can select under Options>Reading whether your RSS feed readers will be able to see the complete text of your posts in their readers, or only excerpts. However, even if you select Full Text in those options, if you use the More tag in your posts to manually create excerpts ... View Post

7 lessons learned from digg’s home page

| August 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

This past Thursday, one of my sites reached digg's home page. As we watched in disbelief, tens of thousands of readers flooded the site (and brought it crashing down in the classic "digg effect"). This was both exciting and frustrating. We learned a lot from this experience, and I would ... View Post

Using the Digg This plugin on your WordPress blog

| August 9, 2007 | 0 Comments

You've seen those Digg This buttons on many sites and blogs, but did you know how to add them? Here's an example (it's an image, so you can't click on it):

Well, as usual, it's a plugin: Digg This from Aviran's Place. The plugin is pretty ... View Post

Videos and excerpts don’t jive – and how to manually create excerpts

| August 7, 2007 | 4 Comments

I just discovered that videos do not show up when you are using excerpts (<?php the_excerpt(); ?>) on certain pages instead of publishing the full content (<?php the_content(); ?>) on the post. I use Viper's Video Quicktags for easily embedding videos in my blogs. Well, ... View Post

I told you so…time to upgrade to 2.2.2

| August 6, 2007 | 11 Comments

A few days ago I reported about a new WordPress vulnerability, and prophesied that as a result we would soon be witness to a new release of WordPress. Well look who's right. The powers-that-be at WordPress announced yesterday that two security-related releases are ... View Post