While researching new blog tools/toys/enhancers I came across an interesting service called Zemanta. What is Zemanta? I'm glad you asked. It's a small application installed as a Firefox extension that adds a sidebar to the write post window of your favourite blog software. As you write your post this nifty tool will automatically scan your text and suggest links to similar articles. It continues to... continue reading
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Unless you've been living under a rock these last few weeks you know all about Tung Do (aka Small Potato) and the sale of his website wpdesigner.com to Miami entrepreneur Pawel Ciszewski. While the figure being thrown about is $65K and change, some sources claim it to be much less. Whatever SP sold his site for is irrelevant and none of our business. Lest anyone get the... continue reading
Since I've been helping out in the WordPress Support Forums for the last year I've noticed numerous threads about some common error messages encountered by various bloggers. I'm going to highlight 2 such messages and show you how easy they are to correct. Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /path/blog/wp-config.php:34) in /path/blog/wp-login.php on... continue reading
Here is a little tip to force WordPress to use clean permalinks for search results. Despite using pretty permalinks you may have noticed WordPress returns search results as yoursite.com/?s=SEARCHTERMS instead of yoursite.com/search/SEARCHTERMS. I'll show you how to achieve the latter. First of all, create a new file called search.php which contains the following, <?php header('Location: http://www.yoursite.com/search/'... continue reading
In my previous post I showed you how to easily add pullquotes to your WordPress blog by simply adding a new class to the existing blockquote. Now I'll show you a way to do it without manually adding class="mag" to every blockquote tag. We do it by adding a new button to the Text Editor Toolbar. Remember back in November when I showed you how to add a couple of buttons to the toolbar to automatically... continue reading
