Archive for July, 2007

Wordpress and Curing High Server Load

So far, my recent conversion of PC Mechanic to Wordpress has been relatively trouble free. Of course, that is a matter of context. Switching publishing platforms on a site as large as PCMech isn’t exactly cake. It doesn’t turn on a dime. So, relatively speaking, it has been relatively pain free. However…
One of the things [...]

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How I Converted a Non-Blog Site to Wordpress

This post may have a few follow-ups - because it is a big subject. However, I just last night launched PC Mechanic as a Wordpress -powered website. Easy right? Not so much. PC Mechanic is not really a blog. In fact, it doesn’t even resemble a blog. WebbyOnline (this site) is also Wordpress powered, but [...]

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We’re Having a Baby Girl!

Just a quick personal post. My wife and I had an appointment this morning for an ultrasound. Long story short, we’ve having a baby girl.
Watching them to do the ultrasound was pretty interesting. She turned the lights out and started rubbing the wand on my my wife’s stomach. On screen you can see - grey [...]

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WP-ContactForm with Departments

WP-ContactForm with Departments is a modified version of WP-Contactform by Ryan Duff. I created this plug-in because I needed a contact form in Wordpress that would allow users to select a department and have the emailed message sent to a different email address depending on the department they chose. WP-ContactForm is a nice solution [...]

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Is Twitter of Any Use to Anybody?

Twitter has turned into a bit of a phenomenon. The site has earned a love/hate relationship among bloggers, usually with them trying to figure out if the thing has ANY use at all. Well, that’s a good question. I saw a post over at LifeHacker that asked Is Twitter Worth Your Time? I was curious [...]

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Youtube Offers Custom Player and Other Goodies

I was over on Pirillo’s blog and I saw a quick mention of a new video player by Youtube. I logged into my account and, sure enough, they’re announcing a few interesting items. You Youtube’ers will like this.
Custom Player
You can now create a custom Youtube video player. You can give it a custom color scheme. [...]

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Wordpress EasyFeeds Plug-In

EasyFeeds is a simple plug-in which will allow you to display the contents of any RSS feed inside of a post or page inside of Wordpress. The output will be a simple unordered list with no formatting. You can use your own site’s stylesheet to style the list as you see fit. The plug-in uses [...]

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Wordpress Plug-ins

In the process of my own working with Wordpress, I have developed a few plug-ins to get various things done. Below are the plug-ins. I will release them as they are ready for prime-time.
EasyFeeds
Provides a quick way to show headlines from an RSS feed in your pages or posts
WP-ContactForm with Departments
A modified version of WP [...]

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Lazy Linkage: July 17, 2007

I’ve been doing an awful lot of articles lately that I write myself, but sometimes I like to take a break and link out to some of the wise words of others. As usual, there is a lot of interesting content being published around the web on my favorite sites. Let’s check some out.

Apparently, Google [...]

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Ultimate Guide To Running Your Business From Anywhere

One of the beauties of running an internet business is the ability to work from anywhere. Additionally, recent reviews of the 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris, has created renewed interest in the idea of being able to run a business from anywhere. One of the things he talks about in [...]

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