Aug 12
I am responsible for the local scuba dive club, Ikornnes Dykkerklubb, back home in Sykkylven. To make it easier for club members and others to follow what is going on at the website I decided to integrate it with Facebook.
Jul 07
I wanted to make it as easy as possible for my blog readers to directly retweet my posts. First I started to install and test several WordPress plugins for this but I just couldn’t seem to find one that I liked. Some of them are to massive and are showing information about how many and who has retweeted your post, I don’t need that. Other required the Twitter Anywhere connection and the user must accept that the retweet application on my blog can connect directly to their Twitter account, I don’t want to force my readers to do this. I decided to create the Retweet functionality by myself so I would have full control on the behavior. This post will tell you step by step how to achieve this.
First I wanted to shorten the post url by using Bit.ly, I am not a php expert or familiar with the Bit.ly API so I googled and found the php code needed for using Bit.ly to shorten my url. I found a great example at www.devmoose.com in a post called Automatically Create a Bit.ly URL for WordPress Posts. Just follow the steps in the referred post at devmoose.com to achieve this. I did a minor modification to the code to make it work in my WordPress : I added “<? php” before the code and “?>” after the code. I also added the “if function exists” check.
Aug 27
Today I did some cleaning on my laptop; removing old unused programs and updating/installing new programs. When I installed the newest Windows Live package I got the Windows Live Writer and thought that I would give it a try.
It was very easy to get started, just run the program, type the url to your blog and provide your username and password. I needed to do one change in my blog settings and that was to enable XML-RPC for remote publishing. You find this option under Tools –> Writing
Aug 12
Displaying pingbacks to your post is a good thing because your readers often will find interesting and value added information in the post that links to your post. What I don’t like is when pingbacks get mixed with the comments to your post, I find that messy. Therefore I decided to separate the pingbacks from my comments and in this post I will show you how I did it.
I guess that some WordPress themes already have this functionality, but mine did not so I decided to implement this by my self.
Jul 19
It is always a good thing to have as many readers as possible on your blog. To increase the number of readers it is important to make it easy for them to both follow your blog posts and share your posts on social networks.
I will show you how you very easy can add icons with links for rss feed, twitter, delicious, stumbleupon, technorati and digg.
