With the new latest version of WordPress you can now easily embed Tweets into your blog posts.
Previously this could be done – but only with a plugin. I’m actually pretty excited about this feature. I may use it only on rare occasions – but it’ll be super handy when I do.
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This is pretty amazing:
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day. – Psalm 139:13-16
I’ve been trying to develop a plan at our house for the past few years to simplify our media content and move to an entirely digital media library.
Ultimately, my dream solution would be a one stop storage device on our network that contains all our photos, music and video and is accessible on either TV in our house as well as on our mobile devices (laptops, tablets, phones etc.)
When Laurie and I first married we had over 100 DVDs and easily twice that many CDs.
We’ve since whittled that down to 30 or so DVDs and fewer CDs – selling most of them to a resell shop.
Along the way we’ve also moved away from buying more physical media content and renting any movies we want to see and buying digital music from iTunes and Amazon. It just doesn’t make sense anymore to keep buying movies we only watch a few times when it’s just as easy to rent the movies for a couple bucks a pop.
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Heads up! If you’re using WordPress Contact Form 7 plugin and Jetpack – the recent updates to JetPack may have messed up your contact forms.
I noticed this when I started seeing contact form submissions addressed to only me – and not me and the client.
Apparently the latest upgrade to the Jetpack plugin adds a new contact form feature to its already growing list of features. But in doing so, Jetpack is using the same shortcode contact-form as the Contact Form 7 shortcode.
So, needless to say, you may be run into some problems if you’ve haven’t already.
The fix is super easy (but a bit of an annoyance).
Be sure you have the latest version of Contact Form 7 and then simply go to your Contact Form 7 admin pages and copy the new shortcodes for each of your contact forms and paste them into your pages like before.
The new shortcodes should start with “contact-form-7”
Of course if you’re not that picky – you can just disable the Contact Form 7 plugin and stick with the new Jetpack version… but know that you’ll lose any of your customizations you may have previously made.
One of the nice things about the Jetpack plugin is the ability to create forms directly within your posts and page edit screens. There’s no need to edit the form and then copy and paste the shortcode into the chosen post. Also, the forms will be checked with Akismet’s spam filter so you’ll have an automatic spam filter built in.
Now that you know – will you continue using Contact Form 7 or make the switch to Jetpack’s contact form?
Last year I shared a Facebook profile hack here on my blog.
Today I’ve updated the hack to work with Google+ (especially now that Facebook has shifted to their new timeline format so the Facebook hack doesn’t work anymore) and shared the updated instructions over at BigBible.org.uk.
You can download the zipped Photoshop Template here and get the instructions over at BigBible.org.uk.
Update: Google+ announced a totally new redesign this morning.
Surprisingly this hack still works – but it’s not a necessity as you can now use one long photo instead of multiple thumbnails.
So now that the redesign is live – what do you think about it? Like it? Love it? Hate change?
So I’m a bit torn…
The a 30-minute video from Invisible Children started rapidly making it’s way around the web on Wednesday morning.
As of mid-Wednesday morning it had 6.8 million views on Vimeo and 4.2 million on YouTube. The latest stat I heard on Thursday is the video’s been viewed close to 40 million times now.
I think it’s safe to say “It’s gone viral.”
Immediately after I saw it, I shared it on each of my networks – and was prepared to share it here on my blog Monday morning (as an added reminded for folks to watch it if they haven’t already).
Continue reading KONY 2012 and the Insurgency of Love
