Archive for the ‘Content Management’ Category
Testing WordPress and Ping.fm Integration
This blog post is pretty useless. It’s just here to test WordPress integration with Ping.fm. I’ve been researching this so we can do the whole social media thing at work. If you’re remotely interested in what this means then take a look at the Ping.fm Custom URL plugin and CR Post to Ping.fm plugin.
WordPress Search Engine Optimisation
I manage several websites at work and have therefore learnt something about search engine optimisation (SEO). Our main site at work uses WordPress as the content manager, which has good SEO features by default. Last week we launched a new website and I also refreshed the other sites, in so doing I found a great [...]
In: Content Management · Tagged with: SEO, Wordpress
Hacking WordTwit into WordDent
I have quickly forked WordTwit into WordDent. WordDent is a WordPress plugin that utilizes the Twitter API to automatically push a published post to your Identi.ca account as a dent. It allows all your Identi.ca contacts to keep up to date with your blog postings. I’m still just testing that WordDent works correctly. I’ll find [...]
In: Content Management · Tagged with: identi.ca, plugin, twitter, Wordpress
Search engine verification and sitemaps
I finally got around to verifying my websites with the Google, Yahoo! and MSN Live search engines. I’ve also setup sitemaps for my websites too. I’ve done this for the websites at work but couldn’t be arsed to do it for my own sites until today. To find out why you want sitemap enable your [...]
In: Content Management · Tagged with: google, msn live, SEO, sitemap, yahoo
Blog post notifications to Twitter
I’ve just installed WordTwit on my blog. WordTwit keeps track of when you publish new posts, and automatically informs all of your followers by pushing out a Twitter tweet. All links are automatically convered to tiny URLs to save space.
In: Content Management · Tagged with: plugin, twitter, Wordpress
BloGTK, a weblog client for Linux
I have been meaning to setup a weblog client for a while now. I have tested a couple of weblogs clients and have settled on BloGTK. It has a simple user interface but comprehensive features, although I did need to define a few Custom Tags before the editor supported all the formatting options I wanted. [...]
In: Content Management · Tagged with: blog, client, Gnome, Wordpress, xmlrpc
Mandingo!
My website has had a change of clothes today, ain’t it purdy? I am now using the Mandingo theme. It is available in 7 colour schemes, has a number of configurable options and is compatible with WordPress 2.3
In: Content Management · Tagged with: theme, Wordpress
WordPress Static Page
I prefer to have a traditional home page which explains a little of what my website is about with menu navigation for visitors to read the blog or whatever. It wasn’t obvious how I could do this with WordPress, thankfully a quick Google turned up the answer in the discussion below… Difference between Front page [...]
In: Content Management · Tagged with: navigation, plugin, Wordpress
Flexion.Org is re-activated!
I have finally got around to re-activating this website after many months of neglect The first thing to do was move away from Jaws. Sadly, my Jaws installation is broken in a way that newer Jaws releases plain refuse to upgrade it. So, I did some research and decided to migrate to WordPress since it [...]
In: Content Management · Tagged with: conversion, Jaws, Wordpress
Stanley migration to Jaws 0.6.x is underway
Stanley is the template I have created for Jaws 0.5.x and was the template in use here until I upgraded to Jaws 0.6.1 in February. This morning I finally started the Stanley migration to Jaws 0.6.x and have completed enough that I can now use it again for Flexion.Org So far I have only migrated [...]
In: Content Management · Tagged with: Jaws, theme
