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Saying goodbye to Textile

I came to WordPress after using TextPattern for a while, and when I switched, I didn’t want to give up Textile formatting, so I found a plugin and kept using it.

That was six years ago. These days…

Posted on June 2 2010, 8:36 pm in Blogging · comment

moving the furniture

If you follow me on RSS or LiveJournal, you probably just saw a flood of new posts. Sorry about that! When I started wordpress-as-cms.com last summer, I meant it to be a place where I could write about all…

Posted on February 17 2010, 1:47 pm in Blogging, WordPress · comment

Howdy, stranger.

I know, it’s been ages! How are you? You look thinner. Have you done something different with your hair?

Me? Well, I was sick for a while there. No, not hamthrax. Not even a virus, really; turns out the stuff…

Posted on December 1 2009, 8:43 pm in Books, Life, Publishing, Web Design, WordPress, Writing · 10 comments

Keynote ruckus at HighEdWeb

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I spent the week attending the HighEdWeb conference. I’ve been a presenter and a member of the programming committee for the last few years. I adore this conference because the…

Posted on October 10 2009, 12:25 am in Conventions, Web Design · 1 comment

New WordPress plugin: Random Posts from Category

(last one for a while!)

This widget will list random posts from a chosen category. You can choose how many posts to display, and whether to show the excerpt or the full content in addition to the post title. You…

Posted on August 6 2009, 3:28 pm in Web Design, WordPress · 1 comment

Another WordPress plugin: Dashboard Notepad (and some backstory)

Let me pause here and say that this blog is not going to become all WordPress, all the time. I don’t really plan on writing five plugins in a single month ever again (this is #4; there’s another being uploaded…

Posted on August 6 2009, 11:04 am in Web Design, WordPress · 8 comments

New WordPress plugin: Import HTML Pages

This plugin will import a directory of files as either pages or posts, according to configurable settings. You may specify the HTML tag containing the content you want to import (e.g. <body>, <div id=”content”> or <td width=”732″>) or the…

Posted on July 31 2009, 2:09 pm in Blogging, Web Design, WordPress · 7 comments

New WordPress plugin: Recent Posts with Excerpts widget

I’ve written a widget that lists your most recent posts with excerpts, optionally limited to a category. The number of posts and excerpts is configurable; for example, you could show five posts but include the excerpt for only the…

Posted on July 26 2009, 7:16 pm in Blogging, Web Design, WordPress · 1 comment

Word Unmunger (HTML cleanup) Automator script updated

For years, I used Luke Francl’s Word Unmunger to strip the gunk out of Word-generated HTML files (an occupational hazard when you work in higher ed). I fell out of the habit when I started working more on application…

Posted on July 9 2009, 11:16 am in Macs, Techy Goodness, Web Design · comment

New WordPress plugin; new WordPress site

My new Next Page plugin provides shortcodes and template tags for previous, next, and parent navigation in pages. It’s a feature I’ve wanted for a while, and a post in the support forum finally made me figure out…

Posted on July 5 2009, 1:37 pm in Blogging, Web Design, WordPress · comment

Fix Outlook

Email design is one of the most annoying aspects of my profession because design standards implemented by most web browsers in 1996 are still not supported in email clients. In Office 2000, Outlook actually did pretty well,…

Posted on June 25 2009, 9:51 am in Web Design · 1 comment

When you can’t log in to wordpress.com stats from your Dashboard…

…but you can log in at wordpress.com itself, and you’re using Firefox…

…you probably need to go to your cookie preferences and check “Accept third-party cookies,” because the stats are loaded in an iframe, and Firefox is trying to…

Posted on June 12 2009, 10:25 am in Blogging, Techy Goodness, WordPress · 1 comment

HighEdWeb 2009 call for proposals

Hey, higher-ed web peeps: now would be a great time to submit a proposal for a talk at HighEdWeb this year. This year, the programming committee (including yours truly) would especially like to expand the offerings in design, social…

Posted on April 17 2009, 11:53 am in Web Design · comment

Improving IndieBound

Earlier this week there was a post on The Written Nerd about IndieBound (formerly BookSense), inviting booksellers and bloggers to share ideas on how it could better serve independent bookstores. I’m writing to the marketing person, but I…

Posted on April 4 2009, 10:55 pm in Books, Web Design, for Authors · comment

Design tweaks

Couple of minor tweaks to the new design: I’ve put the search form back (it’s in the footer), and I’ve added some feeds. If you’d like to subscribe to the main posts without the elsewheres, you can now do so.…

Posted on February 5 2009, 10:14 pm in Blogging, Web Design · comment
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