From the monthly archives:

December 2007

Lorelle pushes Gravatars

December 31, 2007

WordPress maven Lorelle has a post about creating gravatars and adding them to your blog. I left a comment in advocacy of Shamus’ and Scott’s alternatives. One thing I didn’t mention was that using a locally-generated solution like Wavatars or MonsterID also lends a kind of consistency to the avatars that show up, which in [...]

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The first WordPress-based folksonomy

December 29, 2007

I’ve added ScottSM’s WP_Folksonomy plugin to my Haibane.info blog. It seems to work like a charm, and is up to version 0.5. It’s a grand experiment of sorts, representing the very first WordPress-based true tagging folksonomy rather than the taxonomic implementation that WordPress features by default. Let’s see how it goes, I’ve allowed anyone to [...]

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BlogFuse

December 29, 2007

TechCrunch had a cool contest for free, lifetime Pro memberships to BlogFuse, a new service that lets you share your blog entries on Facebook. I tried several times to leave this comment in hopes to win, but to no avail, it seems I am running afoul of their Akismet filter. So, for posterity, I reproduce [...]

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Wavatars

December 18, 2007

Shamus Young has released a new avatar plugin, called “Wavatars” (the W stands for “Whatever”). This plugin closely mirrors ScottSM’s WP_MonsterID plugin, with added optional support for Gravatars built-in (the plugin can be set to default to a Wavatar if no Gravatar is present). Whether you intend to use wavatars, monsterIDs, or the purely abstract [...]

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WP_Folksonomy

December 16, 2007

ScottSM has written a folksonomy plugin for WordPress! * v0.21 12-15-2007: o Fixed overlap between tag add and comment add $_POST variables * v0.2 12-15-2007: o Added Control Panel o Added Subscribers Only and Authorize Tags options o Tracks submitted tags o Added Delete and Accept Tag actions * v0.1 12-14-2007: o A rough public [...]

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WP_MonsterID: automatic, unique avatars

December 10, 2007

Recently, the Gravatar service was bought out by the founders of WordPress. The immediate result was to move Gravatar over to their servers which resulted in a significant speed boost, and also accelerate gravatar support into the WordPress core. The major advantage of this is that it fosters a sense of community among your commenters, [...]

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hacking wordpress

December 8, 2007

This guide on hacking wordpress templates is the best I have seen. It’s succinct and covers enough breadth to be of general use without ranging too far afield into esoterica.

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taxonomy versus folksonomy

December 7, 2007

The WordPress 2.3.x branch officially incorporated tagging into the WordPress core, rendering many third-party tagging plugins obsolete. However, the implementation of tags is largely redundant to the existing category system. As present, both categories1 and tags are systems for taxonomy: tax·on·o·my (tăk-sŏn’ə-mē) pronunciation n., pl. -mies. 1. The classification of organisms in an ordered system [...]

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Welcome to metaBLOG.us

December 7, 2007

Going meta is a favorite pasttime of bloggers. On all my various blogs, I succumb to the temptation and blog about blogging. I’ve decided to launch this blog to serve as a catch-basin for metablogging instead, which will help improve SNR at my other blogs and provide a more comprehensive archive of this stuff. I’ll [...]

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