March 29th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Admin by Chris Pommier
WordPress just released their official upgrade a couple hours ago. I jumped right in and followed their instructions, and it all seems to be working. I think I’ll reward myself with lunch.
Later I’ll have to come back and explore all the new features behind the scenes.
Interesting. As I write this, I notice that the news “Write Post” dashboard shows you the permalink that your post will have when you publish it. You can edit for clarity or SEO. Exciting!
However, my not-yet upgraded Simple Tags plugin doesn’t seem to be working properly. Ugh, the chore of actually typing tags awaits.
March 28th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Admin by Chris Pommier
Source: FlickrIn the interest of centralizing my online activities, and encouraging more participation in the comments section of Words & Tricks, I’ve made a couple small tweaks to the site.
First Tweak: Tweeting
Though I haven’t been able to find the time to blog regularly lately, I have found that posting to Twitter is fast and easy. I can even do it from my cell phone. So, I’ve installed the Twitter Tools WordPress plugin in order to collect my tweets each day and automatically post them as a digest, or roundup, to this blog.
This is experimental, since I don’t want to spam you, or my own blog with annoying daily messages that have little substance. After a couple weeks, please give me your feedback as to whether this feature is worth keeping.
Second Tweak: Editable comments that keep track of you
I’ve tweaked the comments section using the WP AJAX Edit Comments WordPress plugin to allow readers to edit their comments after they submit them. Misspell something? No problem! Your comment is editable for a brief time.
Also, in order to encourage commenting, please note that I installed the CommentLuvWordPress plugin. If you have a blog and enter its address in the URL field, CommentLuv will look for your RSS feed there, and pull the title of your most recent post to link to you comment.
