Tag Archives: WordPress

Upgrading to WordPress 2.5

by Tom on 04. Apr, 2008 in WordPress

You’ll have to excuse the old-skool default WordPress template, as I’m having some issues with the upgrade to WordPress 2.5 (and some disk-quota problems on Dreamhost – my fault though!). Normal (*cough*) service will resume shortly. Hopefully. Oh, and when the WordPress upgrade guidelines say “disable all plugins” – they really, really mean it.

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Twitter Tools for WordPress

by Tom on 19. Feb, 2008 in blogging, twitter

I’m toying with the idea of extending my use of Twitter to cross post the titles and URLs of new posts on this blog (and others that I contribute to) as a kind of aggregator as well as micro-blogging platform. I’ll be using Alex King’s Twitter Tools WordPress plugin to to the job. If all [...]

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WordPress Simple Tags Plugin

by Tom on 21. Jan, 2008 in blogging

I’m just testing out the Simple Tags WordPress Plugin as I would like to post content to my blogs remotely (such as from my mobile phone, from Flock, and from my Mac’s Dashboard), but still tag the content. Simple Tags allows you to add tags in the body of a post, which will be imported [...]

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WordPress Dashboard Widgets

by Tom on 09. Nov, 2007 in Mac, WordPress

Does anyone know of a decent OSX dashboard widget for posting to a WordPress blog? I’ve been using WordPressDash on and off for over two years now, and in Leopard some strange things have happened to its appearance. One that supports WP2.3′s tags would be nice. Ideas, anyone?

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WordPress Plugin: Flexible Upload

by Tom on 22. Mar, 2007 in WordPress

I have long been frustrated by the way WordPress handles image uploads. Normally I have to resize an image first, before I upload it, if I want it to span the width of a post. In K2, my current theme, this is 500px. I’ve always wished that I could just upload an image, and have [...]

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