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I had no idea that writing blog posts for future release was so easy with WordPress!
All you have to do is edit the “timestamp” for the post when you write it to be the day in the future when you want it published, and it automatically appears for you on that day – so simple!
This is ideal for Free as in Beer, where I write quick posts on no cost software. Sometimes I come across more than one cool app in a day, but using this method I can line them all up for publication.
Hurrah! WordPress now has a decent plugin directory!
Am playing around with the theme of this blog at the moment – sorry for any irritation caused!
Welcome to my wordpress.com blog!
I’ve basically decided to cut right down on my web expenditure. Having the vebrig.gs domain was fun, but the renewal was going to cost £35, and the bill for my hosting is due next month too. So, I’ve cut right down by:
I’m also planning on moving some other things around to save time and money. For example, is there any need for the separate LGNewMedia and LGSearch domains?
This sort of rationing is sad, as it means a lot of links and things won’t work any more. But building it all up again will be fun, and after all, the best things in life are supposed to be free…
The theme I am using on this site at the moment, Fjords01!, is beatiful. But for some reason the CSS makes italics (through the em tag) appear like this.
Until I get round to changing the stylesheet, I am having to edit the tags to be a simple ‘i’. It’s annoying.
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Problems with the old blog mean that I have had to abandon it for now. At some point I’ll drag the old posts back through to this one. As it is, though, this represents a new start.
I’ve installed the latest version of WordPress, 2.1 – released this evening – though I was tempted by giving Drupal a go. Everything looks pretty good in the new WP, one of the best features is the new code editor, much better than the old one. Means you can correct the odd mistake that the wysiwyg editor produces.
It’ll take me a little while to get everything up and running again – sorting out a theme and getting plug-ins installed. Hopefully all my old favourites will be compatible with 2.1.
Still, I must’ve been doing something right before. Somehow my mug has ended up on 901am’s shortlist of bloggers. Right next to Guy Kawasaki! Not sure I belong there at all…
Counterize II is a cool WP plugin that allows you to track site stats within the WP dashboard. Nice and simple.
Have installed it here and on hyprtext.
[tags]wordpress, counterize, plugin[/tags]
Steve Smith has updated his Tiger Admin plug-in. What does it do? It makes the WordPress admin screen look very nice indeed. Good job!
[tags]wordpress, WP Tiger Administration, steve smith[/tags]
Here’s the post on Matt Mullenweg’s blog where the fork of the b2 engine was first mooted…
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I have been working away recently on a little project to bring together all of the RSS feeds of members of Palimpsest, the discussion forum I maintain. I have used third party arrangements, like KickRSS and Suprglu in the past, neither of which were wholly satisfactory. I’m a regular reader of the WordPress Planet – which pulls together influential WordPress based feeds – and one for the Anglian LUG. So I thought perhaps it would be best to host the aggregated feeds myself, using either the Python based Planet or the PHP MetaPlanet.
An hour’s fiddling last night made it clear that both were beyond my modest abilities. So, I needed another solution. I found it – a WordPress plug-in that aggregates feeds and spews out separate posts for each item. The title of each posts acts as a link back to the originating site. I soon had it up and running, and it seems to work really well for a quick-and-dirty solution.
A great option for those wanting to create a blogging community.
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