Tag: Wordpress

Add an author’s bio to WordPress posts

bio

For one of my clients, they’ve requested author level permissions for all the members in their organization. This could become a huge headache — very quickly — or if managed correctly, a highly effective communication tool.

With every member writing and commenting, it can become hard to know who’s writing what, or what context they’re coming from, so I wanted to add a brief author’s bio to the end of each post.

I wanted something that was easy for everyone to use and update without having to hard code the information somewhere. And after a quick Google search I realized you can pull a user’s/author’s information straight off of their User Profile page in WordPress.
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Working on a new WordPress theme

Wordpress theme - rockband orange - front page

Over the weekend I started working up some mock-ups (demos) for a new web design for some friends.

I don’t know that they’ll use what I originally came up with, but thought I’d keep working it and turn it into a full WordPress theme.

Right now I’m calling it Rockband, but I plan on changing the name to something a bit more clever before I release it into the wild.
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Posterous or Tumblr?

posterous vs. tumblr

I’ve noticed several friends moving towards Posterous and/or Tumblr?

They both seem like another aggregate for lifestreaming. Like variations of Friendfeed, without the automatic importing.

What’s the difference? Which do you prefer? Why?

Share your opinions in the comments below.

As a bonus for fans of WordPress and Tumblr, there’s what looks to be a great plugin for folks wanting to use their WordPress site more like they would Tumblr.

Social media hacks for your website

Getting on a little bit of a technology bent lately…

There are tons of plugins you can get for your website or blog that allow your readers to share your posts on a number of social network sites. But my experience has been that often those plugins can cause havoc on your servers for one reason or another – or bog your site down in general.

But there are alternatives to using plugins — and these will work for WordPress site, or anywhere on any site that utilizes PHP.
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Customize Disqus WordPress plugin with CSS

I’ve recently added the Disqus plugin to two of my WordPress blogs/sites – encounterthis.com/blog and somethingbeautifulpodcast.com.

Unfortunately I found out Friday morning that the default CSS styling makes reading the comments almost impossible if you’re using a dark/black background. I did a lot of searching and saw suggestions to add a Javascript command to the header file, create an entirely separate CSS file and more. None of them seemed to work for me. I just wanted an easy/non-Java option.
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testing the new wordpress blackberry app

WordPress is by far my favorite blogging software and I love the community that’s built around it and supports it. And I love even more that the developers have shown some love to BlackBerry folks by releasing a new WordPress application just for BlackBerry.

So if you’re seeing this – you can know that it works – and its awesome!

Woot woot!

Oh and I’ve included a photo from lunch yesterday as well (tacos from Fuel City in Dallas) ::

UPDATE: Was able to send this to my WordPress site – but it took FOREVER. Not sure if its something on the server side or the BlackBerry App. Will keep working with it.