The new full screen editing mode that comes with WordPress 3.2 is really outstanding. While, I don’t know if it will make me drop using Windows Live Writer when posting from my desktop, I do have to say the clean design and interface is a lot more inviting than the default post editor WordPress presents you.
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Your Life in 280 Characters
The website 280daily offers you a new and unique way to journal your own thoughts and ideas. The idea here is simple. 280daily allows you to keep a diary or journal where each entry is only 280 characters long. You can think of this as a sort of WordPress meets Twitter. Now, what you do with this new tool once you get it is totally up to your own originality.
How to Disable WordPress Admin Bar
I have just started to play with WordPress 3.1 today. One of the biggest updates that people will either love, or love to hate is the new admin bar that is displayed across the top of your website when you are logged in. It gives you quick and easy access to some of the most popular administrator features of WordPress. What if you do not like it? There is a pretty simple way to disable it from showing up.
Weekend with Windows Live Writer Beta
I spent much of my weekend playing with the beta version of the new Windows Live Writer, and I do have say – they have won me over again. This program is sleek, it gets the job done and really – it is hard to believe that it is put out there by Microsoft for free, because there is no close competitor to Windows Live Writer out there. So lets take a look at why you might want to switch your blog updating to this magnificent tool.
Windows Live Writer
Now most of the time, free applications from Microsoft aren’t worth trying out – but I have found one that really is. Windows Live Writer has to be one of my favorite programs to use to write up new blog posts across my own network of websites. It is really simple to use, and it gets the job done.
5 Free WordPress Themes That Don’t Suck
Want a great looking new theme for your WordPress powered website? Check out these themes I found during my last website redesign efforts. Over the past month I have spent my fair share of time looking for themes that do not suck – and I think I have found a number of great looking free themes to share with you. So bookmark this list, share it with friends and grab a few themes for your next website redesigns.
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10 Tools to Turn Firefox into WordPress’s Little Helper
Firefox and WordPress. Seems like these two fan favorites should mesh together as well as peanut butter and jelly, however – finding add-ons for Firefox to help you with your installed version of WordPress (or your WordPress.com blog) is not an easy task. So let me take the pain away this holiday season and share with you 10 awesome tools that will turn Firefox into WordPress’s little helper.
- Screen grab to WordPress! – This addons ads to Screen Grab! by allowing screen captures to be uploaded to WordPress (2.5+) blogs
- One-Click Installer for WP – Install plugins or themes on your self-hosted WordPress blogs with a single click (needs the related WP plugin to work; not intended for WordPress.com) .
- WordPress.com Sidebar – Get quick access to your wordpress.com account from your browser sidebar.
- MMD WordPress.com Extension – This extension adds a tiny statusbar panel that shows you your blog hit count for your WordPress.com blog.
- Blog This in Windows Live Writer – Adds a button to Firefox which starts a new Windows Live Writer blog post prepopulated with content and title from the current web page. Blog the whole page, or just selected snippets.
- WordPress Helper – The Firefox extension WordPress Helper helps you working with WordPress by providing useful help and tools.
- WordPress Post – This extension lets you post the text you select in your browser directly to your WordPress blog.
- easyComment-a-Blog – Filling out Blog Comment Forms automatically with ease.
- Deepest Sender – Deepest Sender is a client that will allow you to post to blogs from directly within Firefox. It is primarily a LiveJournal client, although it supports Blogger (GData) and WordPress (metaWeblog) too.
- DashBlog – lets you quickly collect videos, images, text/quotes, songs and screen-captures from any web page and publish them to your blog (word press, blogger/blogspot, tumblr) and/or twitter.
Know of another good one that didn’t make the list? Let me know about it!
WordPress
By far, if you want the most bang for your buck, WordPress is the hottest blogging script out there today. I have spent the past few weeks looking at a lot of WordPress alternatives, but when push comes to shove – thus far nobody does blogging scripts better than WordPress, in my humble opinion.
The install is simple, and famous for being able to be done in 5 minutes or less. As far as features go, you have link management, post categories, tags, auto-saving of posts, categories, and more. It would take me days to list them all.
Here is video of WordPress 2.7 doing what it does so well:
You have plugins and themes included too, which means you can customize and add features you might need, but the developers for got about. Here are a few more usual WordPress links that any WordPress fanatic should have handy:
I haven’t had much time yet to really play with an appreciate the newest version of WordPress yet, but from what I have seen thus far – WordPress 2.7 is a great improvement visually over the previous versions. You can pick up WordPress via WordPress.org.
Easy Blog Publishing with Zomplog
Are you wanting to find a weblog or CMS system that is user friendly and easy to use out of the box? Well, the people behind Zomplog describe themselves as being focused at helping you with publishing your content rather than learning a lot of code.
As far as free blogging scripts go, Zomplog appears to have all the bells and whistles. It is highly extendable, and tons of great features. Here is a little more from the developers:
Just because Zomplog is easy to use, that doesn’t mean it only lets you do basic things! Zomplog supports static content, or pages, if you like. This way you can easily use zomplog as an simple content management system! Want to be a broadcaster? Zomplog lets you create podcasts or video podcasts (vodcasts) on the fly! Just upload, and everything else is taken care of!
Sounds great, right? The only big problem I had with them was I could find no install guide via their web site. I had to download the the script, and then hunt through the files in there for one called “read me”. I did finally find it, however it was a lot of work. Nothing too surprising in there, setup the script, your databases and you are good to go.
There are a number of various themes and plugins to check out too, to help you mold your Zomplog powered blog to something you can use or that you need. If you are the type of person who likes to play with a script before you install it, you can have a look around at the interface on the demo hosted by OpenSourceCMS.com.
Zomplog is another fine blogging script alternative worth checking out.
A Wiki/Blog Hybrid in WikyBlog
Coming in today for review is WikyBlog. It is a groupware platforms that fuses together the collaborative editing features with a user friendly design. There are several features here to love. Here are a few that the developers list on the main page:
Designed for speed and ease of use, WikyBlog has a unique AJAX enhanced tabbed interface that enables users to view and edit multiple files within the same page. Custom templates, file attachments, a flexible user privilege system, and Google Maps number among its many features.
To check out more features WikyBlog provides, visit the features list. The install process does not look too complicated. From what I could find, you just need to upload, create your database, and configure. They do note you might need access to mod_rewrite and a .htaccess file too. That should not be to hard to get setup on today’s usual shared hosting plan.
Want to give it a shot for yourself? Check out the live demo on OpenSourceCMS.com.
All in all, WikyBlog looks nice if you are looking for a change, however the navigation interface confused me some. Almost like they are trying to do too many cool navigational tweaks. However, I would still suggest giving it a shot if you need a new way to manage and collaborate on your own blog.. err.. wiki… umm… WikyBlog!
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