This is part two in the best of WeblogToolsCollection.com series (view part one here). The following links are posts which were published during 2008. These posts range from special news articles, guides, tutorials, reviews, opinion pieces and more. We look forward to continue bringing you the best WordPress information from across the web and wish you and yours a very safe, happy new year.
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Good blogs are weird. Blogs make fart noises and occasionally vex readers with the degree to which the blogger’s obsession will inevitably diverge from the reader’s. If this isn’t happening every few weeks, the blogger is either bored, half-assing, or taking new medication.
As most of us know, WordPress development happens at a record pace and trying to keep up with everything is a daunting task. However, the team here at WLTC does a great job filtering all of the WordPress related content on the web to bring the best to you. During the course of a year, this content adds up. Some of it being news posts, how-to guides, reviews, breaking news, etc. So, since it’s near the end of the year, I thought I would take a trip through the WLTC Archive and revisit come classic posts from 2008.
This series is broken up into two parts. The first part covers the months of January-June while part two takes care of July-December. When you browse through the links, let us know which one was your favorite or perhaps, which one has been the most helpful to you.
Time to get the blogs back in control. Put Wordpress and Tarski under version control. Make the Apple Mac Server-specific changes – REMOTE_ADDR vs. HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR -Â
The goal is to get it down to an
svn switch URL .
for any WP updates or Tarski updates.
WP 2.7 day. Guess I should put some Coltrane into the tune machine.
Lots! of things to explore.
Really want to figure out how to get plugin updates working/
Most clients are good clients, and some clients are great clients. But some jobs are just never going to work out well. Herewith, a few indicators that a project may be headed to the toilet. Guarantee: All incidents taken from life.
- Client asks who designed your website.
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : 20 signs you don’t want that web design project.
Wordpress now supports version tracking, you can track the changes made to a post or page like wikipedia or version control system. This feature is important for multi author blogs, you can track the changes made by others.
Another important feature added to 2.6 is “Press This†bookmarklet that lets you post quickly by pressing the bookmarklet. This is inspired from “Tumblrâ€, if you have ever used tumblr you will know how useful is this feature. It can recognize Youtube video embed codes and Flickr images, when you are on Youtube or Flickr click this bookmarklet for easy posting of videos or photos.
Not bad at all…
Writing Style for Print vs. Web | Jakob Nielsens Alertbox
Summary:
Linear vs. non-linear. Author-driven vs. reader-driven. Storytelling vs. ruthless pursuit of actionable content. Anecdotal examples vs. comprehensive data. Sentences vs. fragments.
Stuart’s Blog: RSS in Plain English
Wayne Brent alerted us to a video called “RSS in Plain English” from a resource called The Common Craft. Right now it is on the homepage to that link. You might go there in the future and need to poke around to find it. I believe the actual link location is http://www.blip.tv/file/205570/ but I can’t verify it because the response time is so bad. It must be the hot item on the Web right now.
“RSS in Plain English” seems like a clear explanation about how you can use RSS 1.0 to subscribe to blogs and news sources. Doesn’t get into RSS 2.0, which pushes audio and video for podcasts, but if one gets the gist of how RSS works for blogs and videos, they will make the connection for podcasts.
Feature Richness and User Engagement (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Summary:
The more engaged users are, the more features an application can sustain. But most users have low commitment — especially to websites, which must focus on simplicity, rather than features.
The article is worth reading all the way through.
How many phone calls *do* I have to make to figure out how to dial the phone?
daily wisdom
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