Category: Blogging

WordPress Plugins — Related Posts, WP-Touched and Others

Installed “Related Posts” plugin. But the process wasn’t as easy as advertised.

I had to:

1. Edited

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/wp-content/themes/_theme_of_choice_/single.php

2. Manually added

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< ? php related_posts(); ? >

parameters in

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single.php

I also added the cute little Link out image image after all the links in the content. It looks okay now. But I have a feeling they’ll get old soon.

To get the effect, I did the following:

1. Edited

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/wp-content/themes/_theme_of_choice_/style.css

2. Added

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.entry a[href*="http"], .commentlist a[href*="http"] {
     padding-right: 7px;
     background: url('images/kubricklink-out.gif') right top no-repeat;
     }

But I noticed the above code did not apply the image to the links in the

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single.php

pages. So I added

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.entrytext a[target="_blank"]

to the code, making it look like this:

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.entry a[href*="http"], .commentlist a[href*="http"], .entrytext a[target="_blank"] {
     padding-right: 7px;
     background: url('images/kubricklink-out.gif') right top no-repeat;
     }

In addition, I also implemented WP-Touched plugin for inline post editing without having to go to the Admin panel. Works great!

Edited

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/wp-content/themes/_theme_of_choice_/index.php

by adding

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<?php twTouch(); ?>

Update:“WP-Touched” crashes browsers sometimes. I haven’t been able to consistently replicate the problem yet. But it’s been crashing Firefox 1.0.5 and Safari 2.0 (412.2).

3D Resume

I have had this file for at least three years. I remain convinced that this is the most creative resume layout I have seen. And I have seen a whole damn lot of resumes back in the days…

3D Resume
Click to see the entire picture.

The only annoyance I have complaints about his site is the maximize browser window script. God damn it, I like the way my browser looks.

Blogger Made Rich

I never thought blogging could make someone rich and “famous”. But apparently it’s possible. Slashdot carried an article about Darren Rowse, an Aussie, making his first $10+K (a month) from Google’s Adsense.

Darren blogs professionally with three or four sites, reviewing laptops, cameras and cell phones. Hmm… aren’t there MANY sites doing exactly just that all over the Internet? But I guess Assuies like the way he reviews stuff.

Darren’s site lead me to another site about how to become rich with Google’s Adsense. Well, this is not the first time I’ve seen something like that. A while ago, I saw another equally awfully constructed site, GoogleCash, talking about something similar. Perhaps they are making so much money as the way the sites are, the owners don’t feel the urge to change anything.

But still, ugly sites annoy me.

Vlogging — A How To

Yeah. This is just the thing I need. A how to on video blogging (Man Cleans Freezer, Film at 11). How do those people find time to vlog? Damn it.

Freevlog has a good tutorial. And apparently vloggers recommend using Internet Archive (free hosing) and Ourmedia to archive video clips.

I would include more helpful links and descriptions, but the article at Wired News did a really good job. So I’ll just stop here…

I wonder when iTunes will start including a feature to download vlogs? And how long before mainstream media caught on and start offering vlogs as a source of news outlet for the general public?

Blogging + Video = Vlogging

Great. I finally caught on to blogging. But now this new “Vlogging” thing is slowly creeping into people’s RSS feeds.

Where do people find time for all this?! Damn it.

UPDATE: Like I was saying, Vlogging is catching on. Someone in NYC caught this on his video phone about a bank employee and a customer going off on each other.

Vlogger image of a fight

Brian’s Blog’s Up!

Finally got Brian over on to my server last week. Set him up with WordPress and life is good.

We found ourselves trying to catch up with each other with very mundane stuff every time we start a conversation. Blogging, as Brian has discovered, allows friends/families to keep in touch with ideas, thoughts and the latest insignificant things (that you still want to know about) in each other’s lives.

We’ve been friends since sophomore year back at SCAD. He was the Deputy Marriage Commissioner who performed the ceremony at my wedding. It was pretty cool to have my best friend to conduct the ceremony. Not sure if this option is available elsewhere, but we were thankful that it was in San Jose, California.