Alister Cameron // Blogologist

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Tag: Wordpress

Disqus is not ready for Wordpress

11 May 2008 – 12:59 am

I’m sorry, but as much as I want Disqus (and have installed it for testing) it’s just not ready for Wordpress… not until it can import existing WP comments. I’m rather surprised they don’t have that sussed yet. Disappointed, even.

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Photo Dropper Wordpress Plugin - perhaps the easiest way to add images to your blog posts

25 February 2008 – 10:35 pm

Photo Dropper is brilliant! It’s a Wordpress plugin for adding Flickr photos to your blog posts, and it pretty much does it all for you. Can it get any easier than this?!
Technorati Tags: Wordpress, Photo Dropper, Flickr, Flickr plugin, wordpress plugin, photo plugins

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Call for Alpha testers for the next-generation Wordpress theme

20 February 2008 – 5:33 pm

I’ve been talking for months now about the integration of the wonderful Sandbox and the Yahoo User Interface CSS library. Well, I’ve done it.

It’s codenamed Vanilla and it’s in “closed Alpha” just for now.
But with all things new, I need some people to step up to the mark and help me test it, refine it [...]

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I WILL mark your comments as SPAM!

13 February 2008 – 11:26 am

Warning… if you leave me a mostly meaningless comment with a keyword in the name field, I will hit the SPAM button and Akismet with cause you pain across the entire Wordpress install-base. You have been warned. Moreso, if your comment is added to one of my older blog posts with good pagerank, I will [...]

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The Blogologist speaking at Wordcamp Melbourne 2007

23 November 2007 – 3:56 pm

This is Yours Truly speaking at Wordcamp Melbourne 2007. Many thanks to the team at EightBlack for the recording and putting it online. Simon Chen, CEO, says some extraordinarily generous things about me on that page…!
My session focussed on “evangelising” the Sandbox Theme, which is a special favourite of mine, as an obsessed web designer. [...]

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WordCamp Melbourne scheduled for Saturday November 17th

11 October 2007 – 3:45 pm

News just in from James Farmer that WordCamp Melbourne is good to go! It’s scheduled for Saturday November 17th and all the details are here. Oooh… can’t wait!
Technorati Tags: wordpress, wordcamp, melbourne, australia

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The Wordpress dashboard… another secret source of blog traffic

18 September 2007 – 5:04 pm

Here’s a cool “secret source” of blog traffic I discovered some time back…
A couple of months ago, I wrote a post and thought it might have been of interest to the readership of Weblog Tools Collection (a very high-traffic site for Wordpress coders and plugin junkies). So I emailed Mark Ghosh about it, and he [...]

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Farewell Ultimate Tag Warrior

9 September 2007 – 1:01 am

I’ve spent the last four hours or so upgrading to the latest Wordpress (off SVN). I’m now running 2.3 beta2. Thanks to an in-built tagging system, I have done away with UTW , which was running like a dog, due to (known) database issues. I’ve also spent ages checking and updating plugins… many of which [...]

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An easier way to dialogue with your blog commenters

18 July 2007 – 2:23 pm

I admit it. I suck at dialoguing with my commenters properly. It’s been an interface issue, mostly. But that seems to have been solved. I noticed Liz talking about a Wordpress plugin called Better Comments Manager, and I’ve installed it… and it’s working a treat. So expect more dialogue from me in the comments. (This [...]

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Is it possible to keep your focus but still ‘mix it up’ on your blog?

18 July 2007 – 12:00 am

A few days ago I implemented asides on my blog. These are sometimes called “tumblelog” posts and give me a way to write short pithy posts about this or that. For me it was really important to give these posts a different look on my blog (at least on index pages), so that you the [...]

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