Tag Archives: wordpress
testing sitewide tags plugin update
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Experimenting with BuddyPress
One of the biggest developments in the WordPress software field this year is the release of the first version of BuddyPress – a social network layer to run on top of WordPress MultiUser (the software that runs UCalgaryBlogs.ca).
The most compelling features of BuddyPress are the ability for members to create their own groups, and to [...]
magazeen theme?
I’m experimenting with some magazine-like themes. They are just regular themes, in that you don’t really have to do anything differently, but if you do things like adding images to your posts, and providing excerpts, they start to display the content a little more nicely. Like magazines, even. Very slick stuff.
Using Flickr Photos
If you’ve got a Flickr account, it’s now really simple to use your photos from Flickr and embed them in posts and pages on your UCalgaryBlogs.ca site. I’ve just enabled a plugin that adds a Flickr media button above the editing form, like this (it’s the 2 dots, taken from the Flickr logo):
If you click [...]
Blogging in other languages
I just installed a few language packs for WordPress, which provide native versions of the administrative interface in various languages.
To select the language to use while administering a blog, go to the admin page, and hit “Settings” – scroll down that page to the bottom, and you’ll see this language selector:
For now, I’ve only added [...]
Using WordPress as a CMS
This article is currently on the WordPress admin dashboard, so people who obsessively check their WordPress admin page will have seen it already. But, it’s worth pointing to the article again as it outlines some things to consider when using WordPress as a CMS. I’m still a pretty hardcore Drupal guy – I use it [...]
Posting from iPhone or iPod Touch
Now that I’ve updated this site to WordPress MultiUser 2.6, the cool new native iPhone and iPod Touch blogging app will work. Just point it to your blog, give it your ucalgaryblogs.ca username and password, and you’re off and running!
For example, I used dlnorman.ucalgaryblogs.ca as the blog address, and gave it my login info. It [...]
WordPress MultiUser 2.6
This site is now up to date, running the shiniest of shiny versions of WordPress MultiUser – 2.6 – which synchronizes with the “main” WordPress 2.6 version. This means stuff like tagging, image uploading, updated rich text editor, etc… Lots of great stuff.
I’ll do some more testing, but this is looking stable enough to start [...]
WordPress Server Performance
I installed the awesome WP-Super-Cache plugin, which stores pages as static files. What does this mean? Well, for most users, absolutely nothing. Except that the server (and your blog) should continue to be nice and fast even if we get a fair amount of traffic. Performance caching is a good thing.