Around the WordPress Community: Dynamic Copyrights, Moving WordPress, Microformats, and Twitter to Blog
By lorelle, posted March 4, 2010 at 4:28 am | No Comments ยป
In this week’s Around the WordPress Community, I’ve dug far and wide to bring you a patchwork quilt of great WordPress tips and techniques.
- How to Move your Blog from WordPress.com to a Personal Web Domain with WordPress.org – There comes a time when WordPress.com is just too small for your britches and you want to branch out to a self-hosted WordPress blog. There are a lot of tutorials out there, and Digital Inspiration offers a simple and easy step-by-step approach to help you make the move from free to paid blogging with WordPress.
- Moving WordPress – WordPress Codex – If you are thinking about moving your WordPress blog, whether within your site or between servers, don't forget this great WordPress Codex article on how to move your WordPress blog setup.
- Adding Dynamic Copyrights – BuyNowShop – Many of us have long used PHP time date functions to add dynamic dates to our copyrights, but this post goes further to highlight methods of adding even more customization to your copyrights on your WordPress blog.
- Google & Microformats: Drive More Traffic – Yoast – If you haven't added microformats to your WordPress Theme, it's time to start as the day has finally arrived and Google is now paying attention to microformats. Yoast discusses the various microformats you should be using on your WordPress blog, and tells you why.
- hreview in your WordPress Theme – Yoast – Yoast does a followup to his microformats post on how to use hreview microformat in a WordPress Theme for post ratings.
- 5 Steps to a BlogHer-Approved Giveaways Page on WordPress – Desperately Seeking WordPress – If you have many giveaways on your blog, consider checking out this post on how to maximize how WordPress works to customize and extend your giveaway promotion and styles.
- WordPress tip: Create a PDF viewer shortcode – WP Recipes – Do you have content worth PDFing? WP Recipes wrote up the code shortcode you need to add to your functions.php WordPress Theme template file to quickly make PDF files open in Google Docs.
- Most Wanted Twitter Hacks and Plugins for WordPress – WPBeginner – Want to bring Twitter back to your blog? WPBeginner offers a variety of hacks and WordPress Plugins to help you merge your social together on your WordPress blog.
- A browsable, searchable archive of tweets – stopdesign – StopDesign offers tips for setting up your own Twitter archive on your WordPress blog, bringing those tweets home to roost.
- Greasemetal: Greasemonkey for Google Chrome – For those dependent upon Greasemonkey in Firefox for their WordPress userscript goodness, you can now use Greasemonkey in Chrome with Greasemetal.
- How to Do “XYZ” Without a WordPress Plugin – Weblog Tools Collection – Do you know that you don't have to do everything with a WordPress Plugin? Sometimes, digging into your WordPress Theme is easier than you think, making life easier and not so Plugin top heavy.
- Passing Parameters as Variables vs Passing Parameters as An Array – Weblog Tools Collection – Keith Dsouza tackles passing parameters as variables and arrays in WordPress within functions, a must know for serious coders and hackers and WordPress Theme developers.
- How To: Adding An Author Page To Your WordPress Blog – If you are the only author on your blog, your About page should suffice in helping your readers know more about you. If there are multiple authors on your blog, you need to know how to create a custom Author page to help them showcase themselves and their work on and off your blog.
- WordPress Tutorial: Add Custom Stuff to RSS Feed – Binary Moon – Feed subscriptions are critical to the success of a site's ability to extend its reach. Binary Moon offers a great tutorial on how to add custom content to your feed, such as links to Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites you're on, copyright notifications, related posts, etc.
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Great content as always, Lorelle, but I’m not liking the excerpt-only feeds at all.