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Have WordPress Guides, Will Travel

WordPress Help, Tips and Tutorials

Need a handy guide to WordPress?  Try out some of these great links!

Let me know which ones are your favorites, and what type of WordPress lists, tutorials or more you would like to see in the future!

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20 Best Multimedia Plugins for WordPress

Best Multimedia WordPress Plugins

WordPress is a great publishing platform to use when you want to circulate your own collection of video or images on the Web.  Thanks to a few great plugins, you can take your dull text-based blog and really snaz it up with some great internet imagery.  Want to great a photo gallery?  Want to plug YouTube into your web site?  I have collected twenty of the best multimedia plugins for you to use with your own WordPress powered web site.

Page Flip Image Gallery – Flipping Book plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your WordPress blog.

Post videos and photo galleries – Post your videos and photo galleries/flash slideshows easily and in seconds.

NextGEN Gallery – NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

WordTube – WordTube is your Media Center plugin for WordPress.

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Submit Your Free Design to 200+ Online Galleries

Submit Your Design Across the Web!

Are you a web designer wanting to submit your awesome web site design to a ton of galleries at once?  Look no further than cssGallerySubmission. It is the easiest way to submit your web design to all the CSS galleries around the Web.

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Style, Grammar and Spell Checker for WordPress

Free Style, Grammar and Spell Checker

Everybody can use a little help when it comes to writing.  After the Deadline is a plugin for WordPress, that is like your own little sixth grade grammar book, living inside your content management system.   They use artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find errors in your writing and to offer smart suggestions to correct them.

So, what all does After the Deadline do?

  • Checks for Spelling Mistakes
  • Detects Misused Words and Common English Errors
  • Checks the Style of Writing
  • Checks for Common Grammar Errors

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Sticky Post Help in WordPress

Sticky Posts in WordPress

Sticky posts, will let you bump a story to the top of the homepage – without the need of editing the time stamp over and over again.  This is handy for me, because with the Web Hosting Show’s site, I wanted to keep the most recent podcast pinned to the top of WebHostingShow.com – with new content following bellow it.  With a little template editing, WordPress interface knowledge and some hard work – you can do the same.

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New Layout for Mitchelaneous (Give Me Your Feedback!)

New Mitchelaneous Layout!

What have I been hard at work at this weekend?  A brand new layout for Mitchelaneous, my blog for tech tips, web development and geeky entertainment.  Based on the Press Box theme, I think this new layout is easier to navigate and read, but just as feature rich and useful as the old look was. 

Go check it out at Mitchelaneous.com and let me know what you think!

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WordPress Recipes

It isn’t often that I write up a post to highlight somebody else’s post – but this one is so great I had to share.  This list of over twenty WordPress recipes is a collection of code that anybody who deals with WordPress should keep close at hand.  Via this link you can find out how to:

  • Display Tags In A Dropdown Menu
  • Automatically Insert Content In Your Feeds
  • Display Most Commented Posts In 2008
  • Display Related Posts Based On Post Tags
  • Display The Future Posts
  • Randomize Posts Order

Plus a whole lot more.  That is barely scratching the surface.  You can check out the full collection here:

Also, for more WordPress code snipits you can use in your own layouts and designs, be sure to check out WpRecipes.com, another great resource for neat ways to modify your WordPress powered web site.

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A Not So Flattering Review of DISQUS

DISQUS Comment System Review

As you might of (or might not have, depending on how often you visit) noticed, I had DISQUS powering the comments on Mitchelaneous, the Web Hosting Show and Firefox Facts.  However, “had” is the important word.  This morning I removed DISQUS across the board.

Now I’ll cut to the chase, and tell you why.  It seems that no matter how I tweaked around with WordPress, I could never get DISQUS to pick up on all my trackbacks and comments.  One or two a day would get stuck going to the internal WordPress comment engine (which is practically blocked from you after you install DISQUS).

Having grown tired of checking two places for spam and comments, I decided things were simpler before DISQUS was brought into the picture.  It might be an alright comment system for some, but for me – it was just a little more trouble than it was worth.  Just my two cents here, so if you have an opinion that is either positive or negative about DISQUS post it in the comments.

Update: I have recently had a change of heart, and have decided Disqus is doing a much better job now, than ever before.  Before you make up your mind, be sure to check out my re-review and troubleshooting tips of Disqus.

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Make Any Site Print Friendly

Better Page Printing with Print Friendly

Ever been browsing an article or guide online that you wish you could print out, without all the junk that the web site provides?  Print Friendly offers to make any web site out there easier to print.  You can use their web site tool to enter the URL you wish to simplify for your printer, or use the bookmarklet to gain access to the tool at any time. 

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You can then e-mail the printer friendly version to your friends, tweet about it, or edit the document removing pictures or blocks of text. 

Want to add this interactivity to your own web site layout, maybe under each article that you post?  You can do that too by grabbing the Print Friendly button code.  For WordPress users, there is even a plugin you can install to add it to all your blog posts automatically.

Overall, Print Friendly is a pretty nice service, if you are looking to do a little article simplification, perfect for print. 

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