Category Archives: WordPress

New on-demand copy-editing service from wordy.com

By Ari Salomon | Published: January 24, 2010

I have lots of ESL (English as a Second Language) clients and family who might find this service really helpful. i have not used it yet but it seems very well organized and the interface is slick. and with wordpress plugins it’s all integrated into your blog publishing workflow: Wordy gets it…It’s on-demand copy-editing, and it’s [...]

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12 Ways to Integrate Twitter

By Ari Salomon | Published: November 25, 2009

I had problems using ”Twit-ee” module for ExpressionEngine so I went hunting for solutions. This error kept coming up: “Oh dear – Twitter says your request is invalid … (Error 400)”. Adjusting cache settings didn’t help. But using Twitter’s own embed code worked well. I moved their .js file local and was able to tweak the output code easily [...]

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upgrade time: WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release

By Ari Salomon | Published: October 22, 2009

The headline changes in this release are: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen. Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated. Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins. Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins. via WordPress › Blog [...]

The Drupal Gardens Affect

By Ari Salomon | Published: October 2, 2009

An interesting take on the upcoming “Drupal Gardens”. It works well for WordPress and I’m sure a hosted solution will work well in growing the Drupal community also. I prefer the simplicity of WordPress unless there is a justification for the features of Drupal. But this could give me an excuse to use Drupal for [...]

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Wordpress Mailing List Plugins

By Ari Salomon | Published: September 10, 2009

A great list of mailing list plugins for wordpress. i also found MeeNews at http://www.wp-newsletter.com/. i have not tried it but it looks fully featured. but i suspect it will be hard for any of these plugins to keep up with all the features that a paid service like mailchimp offers. In this article he needed the ability to export [...]

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Wordpress: adding extra line breaks, vertical space and more

By Ari Salomon | Published: July 13, 2009

There are issues with all the wysiwyg editors out there. It’s a problem with Drupal too. It’s hard to make a browser-based tool that just works right. What WordPress is trying to do is “clean” the code. This is useful in many situations but not always.

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WordPress event plug-ins

By Ari Salomon | Published: June 16, 2009

The best WordPress event plug-in is: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-calendar/ It allows you to add ‘events’ to any blog post. So the blog post becomes the ‘more info’ listing and then can be viewed in various calendar formats. It’s powerful.