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Using WordPress Tags

November 27th 2007 Posted to Site Development

I’ve implemented the new WordPress tagging feature and I think I like the results. You can see my current tags in the lower right corner of the sidebar (oddly enough, it’s the widget titled “Tags”). Did you notice that I said “tag list” rather than “tag cloud”? No? Not really paying attention? Just sort of reading words without attaching any meaning to them? Kind of letting your mind wander? Blah blah blah, words words words… Who has the time to pay attention? I can empathize. You need information and you need it fast.

Which is where the tags list comes in …
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BlueHost Affilliate Random Ad Code for WordPress

November 14th 2007 Posted to Site Development

BlueHost Affiliate Program members can place BlueHost ads on their WordPress blogs using the standard code on BlueHost’s Affiliate Links page, but what if you’d like to show a variety of images to help combat ad blindness? The following code selects a random ad image from a list and then injects that advertisement into your WordPress blog …
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Text Link Ads Needs Improvement

October 25th 2007 Posted to Site Development

I’ve been trying to get Text Link Ads working on my site on-and-off for the past few days now and I’m ashamed to admit that it hasn’t gone well. Why ashamed? Well it seems so easy when I watch blogging pros like Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net and Aaron Brazzell from B5 Media describe their TLA experience in a video on the TLA Publishers front page. And the TLA site itself looks so simple that a toddler should be able to use it… yet I keep failing. Damn You Public Education!

Here’s some background …
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Translating Comments

August 06th 2007 Posted to Site Development

Translating a recent foreign-language comment proved too difficult for my usual text translation tool BabelFish. First BabelFish wanted me to tell it which language it would be translating “From” but I couldn’t figure that out because the message seemed like randomly paired vowels and consonants (terima kasih, saya begitu gembira, saya akan mencoba dan mengembangkannya. terima kasih). Apparently I wasn’t going to get very far with this until I determined what language this comment was written in.

The best tool I found for identifying a phrase’s native language was …
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WordPress Plugin Installer

July 23rd 2007 Posted to Site Development

The WordPress plugin called “PlugInstaller” by H.R. Schaefer is an excellent concept come to fruition. PlugInstaller makes installing a plugin as easy as pointing to a web address (or a file on your hard drive) and pressing the “install” button. You no longer need to download, decompress, upload and activate your plugins. It turns a 4-step multi-application process into a one-click-command issued from the WordPress user interface. Pretty nice. But wait there’s more! …
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Rate Me, Judge Me, Make Me Feel Cheap

July 02nd 2007 Posted to Site Development

I was recently contacted by someone claiming to be from a rather large company. He said he might be interested in hiring me as a “Designer” based on the look of this site. I explained that it was somebody else’s theme and I just tweaked the CSS with FireBug and edited the WordPress template files, but he still seemed impressed. He said a few things about the layout but what I remember most was that he called it “clean, neat and easy to read”.

So what do you think? Does this site look that nice? Do you think he was legitimate?

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Image Gallery Plugin Recommendation

June 13th 2007 Posted to Site Development

As a follow up to my previous post WordPress Image Gallery Gotchas I thought I’d let you know what image gallery software I’m currently using. As you may recall, I tried combining Gallery2 (a full featured open source image gallery) with WPG2 (a WordPress plugin to place Gallery2 inside your blog) but I didn’t have much success so I began reconsidering my options.

I went to the WordPress Plugins page, then went to the Images Plugins section and browsed through all their offerings. Here’s my list of top contenders and my impression of each one: …
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