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          ... a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving... (Lao Tzu)

Posts Tagged Wordpress

Upgrading stories

Nasty things happen, always on Friday….

1. I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu 7.04 to the latest and greatest Gusty Gibbon, but everything got messed up (ok, I’m not completely innocent, since I tried to enable Compiz effects on a blacklisted video card), and the computer was crashing every few minutes… eventually I backed up everything [...]


WordPress 1.5.1

There’s a new version of WordPress, the popular blogging open source framework. Here’s the changelog.


Add ‘Related Posts’ in your Wordpress blog

As you can see, I’ve added a ‘Related Posts’ paragraph in each blog post (see for example this page, just before ‘Comments’). It’s a nice improvement that allows readers to immediately recognize similar or related resources in your website. Since it’s a quick and simple hack, I described it in this brief howto.


rssInclusion Plugin

Feedhacks has just published an interesting Wordpress plugin called rssInclusion Plugin.
It provides some additional tags to incorporate contents retrieved from various search engines and aggregators. Very nice.


WordPress 1.5 Themes Competition Blog

You have a few days left to submit your Wordpress theme to The WordPress 1.5 Themes Competition Blog.


Next read_later with del.icio.us

Playing with del.icio.us capabilities is becoming one of the funniest hobby.
Cedric suggests to use a read_later tag to mantain a to-read list with del.icio.us, and gives away a simple bookmarklet to automatically add a web page to that list (simply drag and drop the link into your toolbar).
Now it would be cool to [...]


Del.icio.us links page

Last night I ‘ve googled a bit to find out how to integrate my del.icio.us links with the brand new blogging platform. Certainly I’m not the first to try! I’ve found a lot of libraries and suggestions, even an entire del.icio.us section in Wordpress Codex…
At the end I chose a really simple solution: I [...]