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the day after i relaunched my site using wordpress
By booyaa | January 22, 2006
i think i’ve also got my site/blog the way i want it. i’ve tweaked the theme to suit my own needs, although i do need to use kubrickr to lose the generic wordpress look. i’ve also installed the following plugins:
- akismet (comes bundled with wordpress 2.0) - never had the displeasure of having spam comments, don’t plan of having them now.
- WordPress Database Backup (ditto) - just that extra layer of assurity knowing i can grab a copy of my database anywhere in the world…
- optimal title - to move the post/page name before the blog title. just a little seo tweak along with…
- SimpleTags - includes technorati tags in your post.
- wpLicense - adds creative commons share a like licensing.
so far i’ve been impressed by the sheer variety of plugins available to me. to my untrained eye i would say the plugins seem to cater to every aspect of wordpress. although i am still looking for plugins that will auto tag acronyms and abbreviations; and enable interwiki style links to reduce the amount of handcoding of links. yes, i still miss dokuwiki for all its foibles, it had a rich function set.
i have been pondering what do with all my dokuwiki articles, should i keep them as blog posts or pages? i’ve already migrated two articles as pages, but i’m not sure if this is the write thing. the articles are about lotus notes so i created a parent page called lotus. what i’m not so keen on at the moment is the fact that i then have to manually add my articles in this page. from what i’ve read in the codex (the wordpress documentation centre) pages cannot run php code, which means the template tags that i could use to automate are not available.
i shall think further about this. any thoughts on this matter would be much appreciated.
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January 23rd, 2006 at 9:14 am
Welcome to Wordpress. I have found it excellent since moving across. Great plugin I use is the Flickr plugin which displays your most recent flickr images and allows you to use them in your post. Only tip is once the image is in then click on it and click the insert image button again so that you can change the alignment. see http://www.tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wp-flickr-post-bar/