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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

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

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

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

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

New WordPress plugin: Mass Format Conversion

Mass Format Conversion applies all content filters to posts and comments and saves them back to the database. This is useful if you have been using Textile or Markdown (for example) and you want to switch to plain…

Posted on February 2 2009, 7:02 pm in Blogging, Web Design, WordPress · comment

Just testing, pls disregard.

I think I’ve hosed the LJ crossposter — or rather, I’ve upgraded it, and the new version is hosed.

ETA: Seems to be working, although I lost one post from LJ in the process. Technology, el yay.

Posted on December 18 2008, 10:02 pm in Blogging · 2 comments

Another WordPress plugin: Assign Missing Categories

I’ve written another WordPress plugin as a result of one of my client projects. After I imported old blog posts from Blogger into WordPress, all the Blogger tags had become WordPress categories. That was a huge number of categories, so…

Posted on November 20 2008, 10:02 pm in Blogging, Web Design, WordPress · 5 comments

New WordPress plugin: Post and Page Excerpt Widgets

Post and Page Excerpt Widgets let you display excerpts from posts or pages in the sidebar. For some reason, page excerpts were taken out of WordPress somewhere along the way, so the widget requires the Page Excerpt plugin to…

Posted on July 26 2008, 9:35 pm in Blogging, Web Design, WordPress · 4 comments

Essential WordPress plugins

I’ve set up a lot of new WordPress sites lately, and I’ve come up with my own homebrew installation package. All but one of these are admin tools; I don’t have a standard list of theme additions because every site…

Posted on July 21 2008, 9:25 pm in Blogging, Web Design, WordPress · 32 comments

New WordPress plugin: No Place Like Home

For the last few versions, WordPress has allowed you to specify a page as the site’s home page, rather than the usual list of recent posts. However, in the list of pages, it doesn’t indicate which one is the home…

Posted on June 6 2008, 3:00 pm in Blogging, Web Design, WordPress · 1 comment

Important note about the WordPress 2.5 media manager

If you don’t want your thumbnails to get distorted, you need to change WordPress 2.5′s default setting before you upload your photos into the media manager. Go to Settings > Miscellaneous and UNcheck the “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally…

Posted on April 17 2008, 11:58 pm in Blogging, WordPress · 1 comment

Fixing WordPress 2.5

If you hate the new Write area in WordPress 2.5, check out this mod. It works beautifully with Fluency, which itself fixes a lot of things I didn’t like.

As soon as Fluency supports drop-down menus,…

Posted on April 5 2008, 9:56 pm in Blogging, WordPress · 2 comments
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