Cool things coming to WordPress (2)

Posted March 10th, 2006 in Wordpress
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The cool cats from the WordPress dev team are starting to spill the beans about the upcoming version of WordPress. In an effort to make WordPress more CMS like they are finally giving pages the same love that posts have. Links are now simplified and called Bookmarks. This thing just keeps getting better and better.

Link: www.boren.nu

Building 9Rules

Posted January 19th, 2006 in Web, Wordpress
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Building-9-Rules

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one using WordPress as a non blog tool. Colin Devroe has put together a great article on how they built 9Rules using WordPress. Worth the read if you are a web developer.

Link: Building the 9Rules Network: Episode 1
Link: Building the 9Rules Network: Episode 2

WordPress on Mac Part 3: Installing WordPress (34)

Posted August 25th, 2005 in Mac Geekery, Tutorials, Web, Wordpress

This guide will help you run Wordpress(the blog app that runs this website) in your own personal Mac for testing purposes or for backing up your blog. On WordPress on Mac - Part 1: PHP & Mysql we covered installing PHP and MySQL. On WordPress on Mac Part 2: Sub-Domains we covered setting up local sub-domains. On Step 3 we’ll cover how to install WordPress.

Installing WordPress

The steps we’ll take:

Step 1: Download and Install CocoaMySQL
Step 2: Create Database
Step 3: Download WordPress
Step 4: Install WordPress
Step 5: Permalinks

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WordPress on Mac Part 2: Sub-Domains (42)

Posted August 23rd, 2005 in Mac Geekery, Tutorials, Web, Wordpress

This guide will help you run Wordpress(the blog app that runs this website) in your own personal Mac for testing purposes or for backing up your blog. On WordPress on Mac - Part 1: PHP & Mysql we covered installing PHP and MySQL. On part two we’ll cover setting up local sub-domains. What is a sub-domain and why do I need one? Sub-domains are websites with absolute URLs that are accessed via a prefix to the url i.e.the server mail.earthlink.net is a sub-domain of earthlink.net. Why do I want to do this locally? Because it will make it possible to mimic your website structure locally. In other words, it’s all about file paths. If you set it up your images and link will work, if not, you’ll have broken links and images.

WordPress on sub-domain

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WordPress on Mac Part 1: PHP & MySQL (16)

Posted August 22nd, 2005 in Mac Geekery, Tutorials, Web, Wordpress

This guide will help you run Wordpress (the blog application that runs this website) in your own personal Mac for testing purposes or for backing up your blog. This Tutorial will cover installing PHP and MySQL, setting up local sub-domains and installing Wordpress. Why would you want to do this? Well, because you can. Mac OS X is built on Unix which gives us access some very cool things like the Apache server. Local development is great because you can develop even when you don’t have an internet connection like when traveling on a plane.

Wordpress on your Mac

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A Better way to Blog (5)

Posted April 27th, 2005 in Mac Geekery, Tutorials, Wordpress

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As I grow tired of the inefficiencies of web apps, whether it’s having to hand code html or waiting for my form submit to redraw, I discovered ecto. A wonderful iLife, Addres Book, Amazon, Technorati, del.icio.us friendly web standards compliant desktop blogging App. Woosh, say that three times. ecto also has an internal subscriber’s database where you can add subscribers who want to be notified by email when you post. ecto supports multiple blogging systems like Wordpress, Moeveable Type, Type Pad, Blogger etc. and it’s only $17.95. It has an excellent help guide with plenty of screenshots and a very active forum where the developer quickly answers any questions users might have. The App sounds impressive on paper, so let’s set it up and take it for a test drive.

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