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Pubmedia Tech Talk 2010-12-28
UPDATED 2011-02-07 with help from John Tynan. Survey of Existing Pubmedia discussions, some w/ tech, some all tech… Google Groups: public media | public-media-tech. Q&A: Help.HacksHackers.Com, A place for journalists and technologists to solve technoproblems (uses StackExchange CMS) | (SE Area 51 proposals:) Public Media, NPR, PBS, and beyond | Backstage. Twitter: #pubmedia | (Weekly [...]
Code Collaborations 2010-11-29
New H/H post: Public media needs coding collaborators.
Calling All jQuerys 2010-11-27
Calling Google’s copy of jQuery, with a fallback to the WordPress copy.
Taco Bell Programming 2010-10-25
An eye-opening post from programmer Ted Dziuba on “Taco Bell Programming:” Every item on the menu at Taco Bell is just a different configuration of roughly eight ingredients. With this simple periodic table of meat and produce, the company pulled down $1.9 billion last year. The more I write code and design systems, the more [...]
Socially Transmitted 2010-10-22
I have neither time nor interest to microblog every micro-happening, or update my mind’s status. But as Fearless Leader of the Hearing Voices radio rodeo, we do need a presence in popular places like Facebook and Twitter. Since we maintain an active blog at HV, our solution to sociality is to automatically turn each blog [...]
Grooveshark Jukebox 2010-10-14
Grooveshark is a fast & flexible way to generate a jukebox for your site. You can color the widgets, like this Xmas one from Hearing Voices: Christmashup
WP: What Page We On? 2010-09-22
Often you need to know/confirm, which Page Template WP used for a particular request. You can deduce from the Template Hierarchy the file you think was used, but sometimes you gotta be sure.
WP: Flip Scripts & File Styles 2010-09-20
There are several schemes for adding CSS and JavaScript to only one particular WordPress Page or Post — i.e., not to all Pages/Posts but just to a single specific Page/Post. The Codex offers several ways of “Using Javascript”. For a Page you can employ WP’s Template Hierarchy by creating a pair of ‘slug’-named (or id#) [...]
Blog Post: Exploded, Reloaded 2010-09-20
Here’s some articles that explode, erode, reload, and remold the concept of what a blog-post can be. Don’t you wish your blog was this kewl?: Smashing Magazine declares “The Death Of The (Boring) Blog Post.” Design Informer intones “20 Extraordinary Blogs With Unique Post Designs.” Çats Who Blog concatenates “10 examples of beautiful custom designed [...]
WP: Fatter Fronts 2010-09-11
This code puts a different paragraph at the top of the first (or only) WordPress page of Posts, than it does on all the other non-front pages. Uses the WP $paged variable. Put this above The Loop: The default number of Posts per page, btw, is set in Dashboard»Settings»Reading SubPanel.
WP: Planets 2010-09-10
River-of-news feed aggregators on all things WordPress.
WP: Private Parts 2010-09-09
Exposing a list of your WordPress privates only to the logged-in.
WP: ? Query Quest 2010-09-08
The WordPress URL query string parameters.
WP: Page Excerpt Access 2010-09-06
Excerpts for WordPress Pages, new in WP3.0.
WP: Unplugged 2010-04-29
It’s easy to go WordPress plug crazy. Plugins do so much so quickly so easily. But plugs (not to be confused w/ butt plugs) can cause WP woes: multi-plugs may not play well together, or haven’t been upgraded, or haven’t been rewrit for the latest WP vers. Plugs work great when you’re installing a site [...]
Bandwidth Battles 2010-04-22
Excellent post at PRX on the “bandwidth conundrum.” In a response to a producer’s question re: his WordPress site gettin’ trounced by traffic, PRX’s supreme bit-twister, Andrew daCoder, suggests: Setting up site-monitoring at pingdom or montastic. Using a Content Delivery Network (try the lo-$s SimpleCDN or pay-as-you-go MaxCDN). And links to All-Things-Cache-centric, from plugins to [...]
WP: Start Your Engines 2010-04-16
Your WordPress engine should be up and running in about five-minutes (famously). A few more moments of fine-tuning the settings will boost its security and SEO. Security thru obscurity (“Hardening WP“) Before install: Makes it hard for evilbots to peek at your underthings. Pick a non-obvious directory name for WP dirs/files. When you unzip WP the [...]
iPadPeek 2010-04-07
This is your site on iPad. Get an glimpse at: iPadPeek. Click at the top to switch from landscape to portrait. Mashable advises disabling Flash and even changing your user-agent (instructions provided) for a more realistic iPad-ian approximation. Also see Digital Inspiration, Wired and this FF add-on User Agent Switcher. You can preload a page [...]
HTML5 Audio Player 2010-04-03
Inserting HTML 5 audio in the WP Audio Player.
How to: Embeddable photo map w/ Flickr and Google 2010-03-31
At ncpr.org, I have created a map version of our Photo of the Day feature showing our last 25 selections. It works by using geolocation features at the photo-sharing site Flickr, passing the geocode feed address to Google Maps, then embedding the resulting map in the site.
Some suggested uses:
Map a museum’s landscape collection
Map a realtor’s [...]
WP: Ghost Lines 2010-03-24
Remove Blank Lines from XML Feeds Recently set up this new WP site. All went typically well, until I checked the feed. Got this error: XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location: http://pubmedia.us/feed/ Line Number 2, Column 1: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> ^ The prob was a blank line at [...]
WP: Revs 2010-03-21
Managing WordPress Post Revisions WP post “revisions” have saved my ass more than once. Intro-ed in WP 2.6, they let you save, view, and restore past versions of your posts. But when it comes to database backup, all those revisions can be too much of a good thing. E.g., all my wp tables together weigh [...]
WP: Regular Reads 2010-03-19
WordPress references, resources, and good reads.
WP: Loop de Loop 2010-03-19
One loop file for all WordPress templates.
WP: Pimp My Scripts 2010-03-19
First in a series of posts on customizing WordPress into a CMS.
Pubmedia Commons 2010-03-17
Open, shared, scaled: a pubmedia codebase, co-dev.