Reading Time: 2 minThis is a bit off-topic, but explains my sparce posting on here lately. I’ve been working on a new resource for church worship leaders, and it’s just about ready to go — Tabs For Worship. It’s somewhat similar to the other guitar tab sites out there, but with a few key differences: Less “stuff”, just […]
WordPress
Trying out the iPhone posting app
Reading Time: < 1 minLook at that cute haircut!
WordPress app now available for the iPhone
Reading Time: < 1 minAs first revealed on Mobileography, the WordPress app for the iPhone is now available in iTunes! This is a slick little (free) app that makes it easy to write/edit posts and your WordPress blog. This works with WordPress.com blogs or any self-hosted blog that is version 2.5.1 or higher. My only complaint so far is […]
A cool little WordPress tip — upload an image from a URL
Reading Time: < 1 minI always thought there were two options for adding an image to a WordPress post: Upload it through the image manager. Enter a URL and “hotlink” it from there. It turns out there’s a third, as described by wp-fun — upload and crunch directly from the net. When you click on “choose files to upload”, […]
WordPress Redirection plug-in is perfect
Reading Time: < 1 minThis isn’t a new plug-in, but it’s new to me and I love it! I recently converted one of my sites from a custom CMS to WordPress mu. I manually 301 redirected some of the popular pages, but decided to let the rest of them die off. However, I just installed the Redirection plug-in and […]
My updated WordPress ping list
Reading Time: < 1 minLike most blog software, WordPress will ping a list of services each time you write a post. I’ve spent the last hour or two refining my list and I think it’s pretty solid. Feel free to use this on your own blog if you’d like. in WordPress, just go to [settings] and then [writing], and […]
Don’t forget to add a SECRET_KEY to WordPress
Reading Time: < 1 minIf you’re like me and you’ve been using WordPress since before 2.5 came out, your wp-config file is probably missing a “SECRET_KEY”. This is a new, one-line entry to the config file that generates a unique cookie for your site. Some of the recent WordPress attacks have involved cookie spoofing, and this will help prevent […]
WordPress in the next iPhone?
Reading Time: < 1 minJohn Lamansky, the “WordPress Expert” has noticed a little snippet of text from WordPress developer Matt Mullenweg that implies we may see WordPress in the next iPhone. The quote John used: Mobile is really important. Blackberries, iPhones… and other things… are coming. And I’d like that to be in a core cell phone. They were […]
Embeddable blog posts?
Reading Time: < 1 minAnil Dash has a unique idea (via Steve Rubel), though I’m not sure if it’ll take off or not — embedded blog posts. Anil figures that if people are always embeddeding photos and videos, why not let them embed the text of blog posts too? It seems like it might be a good idea. The […]
A bunch of other great uses for WordPress
Reading Time: < 1 minLloyd Budd of the WordPress Publisher Blog points us to a handful of creative uses for WordPress. The one I like best is actually just a link to Raj Dash’s article on “48 Unique Ways to Use WordPress“. Among the 48 ideas: Use it as a normal CMS. I’ve somewhat done that on sites before. […]