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Posts from the “blogtech” Category

This category contains all my posts about blogging technology — plug-ins, themes, design, etc.

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WordPress Wednesday: @UpdraftPlus March 8th, 2017 @ 7:17 am PST

The most important WordPress plugin

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WordPress Wednesday: Thumbnail ALT Tags February 15th, 2017 @ 8:06 am PST

How to grab an image ALT tag from the WordPress Media system

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WordPress Wednesday: Huge Archives February 1st, 2017 @ 8:37 am PST

In which I explain how to beautifully display enormous WordPress archives in a compact format

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The Ultimate Guide to Local WordPress Development on a Mac January 23rd, 2017 @ 6:50 pm PST

In which I explain how I roll my code

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WordPress Wednesday: Delicious Links April 8th, 2009 @ 10:00 am PDT

Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet. Lots of people use Delicious to store bookmarks online, and as a blog publisher […]

WordPress Wednesday: Amazon QuickTags Plugin

WordPress Wednesday: Amazon QuickTags Plugin March 25th, 2009 @ 9:15 am PDT

I published a few articles back in early 2005 and late 2006 explaining how you can edit your WordPress quicktags.js JavaScript file to add new buttons to your Edit Post menu. At the time this was the simplest way I knew to change the WordPress interface. Since then, however, every time a new version of […]

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WordPress Wednesday: Displaying Huge Archives March 18th, 2009 @ 9:15 am PDT

Once you’ve been blogging for a few years, you’re going to realize that your archives page is huge. For the casual one-post-each-week blogger, it might be okay to display the titles or even excerpts of posts on your archives page. But what about you and your twenty-posts-per-day blogging habit? It won’t be long before your […]

WordPress Wednesday: Create a Twitter Widget

WordPress Wednesday: Create a Twitter Widget March 11th, 2009 @ 9:15 am PDT

The team at ProBlogDesign has posted an excellent tutorial explaining How to Create Your Own Twitter Widget. The instructions are very detailed and by following them you’ll learn quite a lot about how widgets work.

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WordPress Wednesday: Displaying Older Posts May 6th, 2008 @ 3:38 pm PDT

In which I explain a bit of MySQL

Akismet Works

Akismet Works April 2nd, 2008 @ 6:09 am PDT

I installed Akismet here at the beginning of the Fall of 2006. I really don’t know how I lived without it. I emptied the queue about seven hours ago, and when I got to the office this morning there were already almost 1500 comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks flagged as spam. Akismet has protected your site […]

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