Archive for the ‘Wordpress’ Category

Twitter and Amazing Out Of the Box Integration

Posted on 20 September 2007 in Wordpress | No Comments »

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Short intro: Twitter is a system that allows you to “blog” your status by many ways, so it can be sent to your twitter home page, friends can follow them and much more!

Make the jump to read a full review on all the possibilities Twitter is offering!

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Display your AIM/iChat Status On Your Website

Posted on 19 September 2007 in Macintosh Tips & Help, Wordpress | 6 Comments »

Here’s the how to display your iChat Status like this one (you also see it in action here):

iChat Status


On your website insert this line of code:

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<a title="aim:AIM_ACCOUNT" href="aim:goim?screenname=AIM_ACCOUNT">
<img src="http://big.oscar.aol.com/AIM_ACCOUNT?on_url=http://ONLINE_IMAGE_LINK&amp;off_url=OFFLINE_IMAGE_LINK" alt="iChat Status" /></a>

You have to replace the AIM_ACCOUNT with your AIM screename or iChat screename; example: steve@mac.com
And you have to replace ONLINE_IMAGE_LINK & OFFLINE_IMAGE_LINK with the path to your online and offline images.

Publicize Your Feeds

Posted on 20 August 2007 in Wordpress | No Comments »

If you’d like to increase your audience, you gotta have more subscribers to your RSS feed.

You can add the feed link to your blog’s head meta so that it can be auto-found by feed subscription software. This is incredibly simple to do and only takes a few minutes if it’s not already in place for your blog.

Add the following code between the <head> and </head> of your blog’s theme:

<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Title of your Feed” href=”http://www.link.com/to/your/feed.xml” />

For the WordPress users, you can add the following (most themes already come with it enabled, no need to have it twice):

<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>” href=”<?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?>” />

 

 

WordPress Redirect Plugin

Posted on 20 August 2007 in Wordpress | No Comments »

This new plugin by Urban Giraffe, called Redirection, makes it much easier to manage all the pages of your site that have moved or even to set up affiliate redirect links. That’s because the plugin can redirect folders that don’t exist and you have the option of setting 301 (permanent) or 302 (temporary) redirects.

Download & Instructions here.

Google Sitemap Automation

Posted on 25 July 2007 in 3rd Party Software, Wordpress | No Comments »

Enough talking about what happened and let’s go back to Macs, we’ll start back with an OS X applications that will help webmasters automating submission of their websites to Google.
This application is $29.95 shareware that worths them (more traffic = more money = rentability):

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I Signed Up For PPP!

Posted on 23 July 2007 in Personal, Wordpress | No Comments »

Mac Amour today joined an advertising program called PPP.

I fell in love for this service because it rewards your work and time on a blog with money.
I really like PayPerPost because of the friendly interface an alerts. Many tools are here for bloggers and advertisers to make them “meet” and take their blogging work together in an easy way.Many bloggers earned a lot of money with ads on blogs thanks to PPP.

And for me it’s fair for a blogger to get that reward.
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Wordpress Plugins Installed in Mac Amour

Posted on 9 July 2007 in Personal, Wordpress | No Comments »

Someone requested me for it, so here it is, the list of the Wordpress Plugins used in this blog:

  1. Akismet: spam killer (bundled with Wordpress Free)
  2. All in One SEO Pack: Search Engine Optimizer
  3. Dagon Design Form Mailer: the mail form you see in the “Write for Us” page
  4. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator: it’s the sitemap you see when you click on the .mac globe on the bottom of the blog

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FeedBurner PRO became “free”

Posted on 3 July 2007 in Wordpress | No Comments »

FeedBurner PRO for everyone

Mac Amour’s RSS feed is burned via FeedBurner, I just discovered yesterday that the PRO service became “free” 
The MyBrand feature will permit Mac Amour to have a feed name that matches the domain name, I should receive my MyBrand tomorrow.

If you have a blog with (or without) FeedBurner you can go to their blog and read more on that.

Create a Wordpress Theme from your Mac

Posted on 25 June 2007 in Macintosh Tips & Help, Wordpress | No Comments »

Circle Six Blog published a great post (that is quiet old) that outlines Brett’s workflow for designing WordPress themes locally on a Mac.
He also lists a number of useful apps for making your dreams come true.