Entries tagged with wordpress - Channel 10

Wordpress + Virtual Earth = Awesome Maps for Your Blog

sarahintampa — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:09:00 GMT

A new Wordpress plugin lets bloggers easily insert Virtual Earth maps onto any Wordpress blog. Using the plugin is easy - you just install it to your plugins folder as you would any other, but the best part is that the plugin is compatible with Windows Live Writer! When you use Live Writer to post to your blog, the "Insert" --> "Map" option becomes a Virtual Earth map instead of a static one. To see an example, check out the plugin authors' blog or to get started, you can download the plugin here. For users of the latest version of Wordpress (2.5), the download is here instead.

Wordpress Tags Plugin for Windows Live Writer

sarahintampa — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT

I just keep finding great plugins for Windows Live Writer! I recently moved my blog to WordPress and wanted to find out if WLW could support tags instead of just categories. As it turned out, the support to post tags is not enabled by default, so there are some things that have to be done in order to enable the support to add tags when you blog from Windows Live Writer. (I found this tip at ruhanirabin.com)

To enable tags in WLW, do the following:

Download the latest version of Windows Live Writer.
Download the File wlwmanifest.zip from Wordpress Trac.
Unzip and upload all the included files with directories into your blog' root directory.
Update or Add your Blog in WLW from the "Weblog" menu in WLW.
Re-open WLW and, at the bottom, you'll need to click on the double up-arrow to expand the rest of the menu, which is hidden. This menu gives you access to all the metadata for your post, and now the keywords tags (WP tags) are available for you to enter in comma-separated list.

Wordpress.com keeps knucklehead domain setup off your desk

Jesse — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:41:00 GMT

In the world of the blog, search juice is the drink of the Gods. Anyone's web presence is most easily measured by the history and persistence of one's search results. Now the squad at Automattic made it that much easier to start down the road to juicy Web supremacy.

Now one of the most favored places to host a blog, wordpress.com, will register and map your domain for you. If you already own a domain they'll walk you through updating your DNS table entries and handle the forwarding for you. If you're starting from just a good idea, you can have them register your domain and do the forwarding for the price of the first Secret Machines album.