Photo by Jason Permenter - http://www.flickr.com/photos/volcanologist/3334093782/in/photostream/
(Via Chris Brogan) Editorial Calendar is an excellent new plugin for WordPress which shows your blog posts (already published as well as scheduled for future publishing) in a calendar view and lets you drag posts around to different days. Simple, clean, and just works (at least on the two 3.0.1 WordPress blogs I’ve tried it on – haven’t dealt with multiple authors, etc yet). Read more…
Photo by Daniel Morrison - http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielmorrison/4106439044/
So in this new theme for Open Parenthesis, I really wanted a lightbox / thickbox type effect on local images. This means that when the user clicks on the smaller images used inside blog posts, the “view larger” version is presented in a nice javascript modal dialogue box, with the rest of the page darkened. It’s a common effect you’ve likely seen on many blogs, and there are some plugins which do this, but I wanted it built in to the theme.
I found this post – Create Thickbox in WordPress With Just 3 Lines of Code – which seemed (and was) promising, but had to customize a bit for how I use images – basically to avoid applying the thickbox effect on images which are linked to external sites.
Photo by Brian Arnold - http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianarn/265152959/
SixApart recently announced that they will be closingVox, their hosted blog service, at the end of September. Earlier this year, Ningannounced it would be moving to a “paid users only” model, leaving many communities looking for new homes online. What’s a site owner to do when free (as in beer) services disappear? Look for open source replacements, of course!
A while back I hacked together a script for automatically reposting all tweets matching a given hashtag, called Retweeter. It’s useful for conferences and other events where you want to see a stream of info regarding a given topic, but don’t want to catch the attention of spammers. (To use retweeter, you set up a twitter account in the name of the hash tag, and retweeter only reposts tweets from those it follows – so if someone starts spamming, just have that retweeter account stop following them).
