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query custom taxonomies

By tom.altman ⋅ August 30, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

WordPress 3.0 has brought a whole lot of new and interesting options to the table. You can create you very own customer post types and taxonomies to go with them. Cool – did you do it yet. GREAT! How do you pull them back out? Red Letter Studio has a great post about just that. Related articles [...]

wp search help

By tom.altman ⋅ August 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Image via Wikipedia Search is hard – and it seems like it doesn’t get a whole lot easier in WordPress. WP Engineer has a great post about search and different options of how to integrate it into your WordPress site. There are several ways to integrate search function into a theme for WordPresss, usually built [...]

FeedWordPress Plugin

By tom.altman ⋅ August 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Plugin: FeedWordPress There are a few of these “auto-posting” bots around. I’m definitely not a proponent of stealing content, but these tools have some uses. There are a ton of feeds around the net which could be leveraged for content in a white hat way. FeedWordPress is an open-source Atom/RSS aggregator for the WordPress weblog [...]

10 More Tips To Improve Your WordPress Theme

By tom.altman ⋅ December 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Image via Wikipedia I think 4 & 5 are some really good points: 4. Don’t use custom fields unnecessarily – so many themes have relied on this to put more of the pressure on the author. I think theme authors should be looking at ways to improve and simplify the workflow when possible. 5. Custom [...]

WordPress › Wiki Append

By tom.altman ⋅ June 1, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

WordPress › Wiki Append « WordPress Plugins. hmmmmmm?

WordPress Wednesday – Scheduled Backup

By tom.altman ⋅ March 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Scheduled Backup Of Your WordPress Blog. After spending time looking for a new host for tomaltman.com, this is a must. After I get the host up and stuff…I’m putting this on a priority list. Then I must figure out how to auto-move that over to Amazon’s S3.

WP: Magazine PDF

By tom.altman ⋅ February 11, 2009 ⋅ One comment

WordPress › Magazine « WordPress Plugins. A plugin which will make a PDF of your site…interesting.

WP: Flexible Lightbox

By tom.altman ⋅ February 11, 2009 ⋅ One comment

WordPress › Flexible Lightbox « WordPress Plugins. This is a great little ditty for standardizing the display of photos.

Video Stitching & Stabilized Video Collage

By tom.altman ⋅ June 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Image by Getty Images via Daylife It all started with a tweet from a guy in Utah. He said he had cracked up be cause his mother had emailed him after watch his lawn cam – capturing some landscaping. Anyway – his blog post was a bout the concept of video stitching: I saw this [...]

More cool blog tools

By tom.altman ⋅ April 9, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

Image via Wikipedia I’ve been raving about some blog tools here and also Nick Peters & I over at Wediaup – but here is another example called Skribit. (I found it in my feeds from Social Media Today.) The quote is from the SMT post: As Paul envisioned it – “It’s where you go for [...]

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