WordPress Tip: Is My Blog Working?

DavidM    Cool Links, WordPress Tips     development, online, tool, WordPress

Excellent online tool for checking if your WordPress blog is working properly.

http://ismyblogworking.com/

It reports on the status of:
Your web server
Your RSS feed
Your robots.txt file
Your blog is indexed by Google
Your blog is indexed by Bing
Your blog application support for gzip compression.
WP Super Cache
Your blog hosting

Along with a collection of technical details.

WordPress Tip: RSS Feed from Specific Category

DavidM    Design and Development, WordPress Tips     coding, feed, rss, tips, WordPress

If you wanted to get an rss feed for a specific category, like Cool Links on GoatMinds all you need to do is add /feed to the category url.

If the category URL is:
read more…

WordPress and iFrames, Problem Solved

DavidM    Cool Links     edit, embed, iframe, iframes, plugin, problem, strip, visual, WordPress

I love simple solutions to annoying problems.

Problem:
Wordpress visual editor strips out iFrame embed coding when an editor saves or edits in Visual mode. Google calendar is one thing that can be added to a page using iFrame.

Solution:
Use the plugin TGN Embed Everything
Not only does it solve this problem it makes it easy to embed lots of different things into WordPress…like an inline PDF viewer, YouTube videos, TIFF files…and more. Just a little reformatting of the iFrame embed codes provided by the source (Google Calendar, YouTube, etc) and you’re back in business.

Adding Pizazz to Your Blog Posts

Dale Hogan    Design and Development     Blog Design, Blogging, Blogging Help, Fotolia, Images, iStockpoto, online, Plugins, Stock Photography, web, WordPress

Making your blog posts snazzy can be a chore when you’re an active blogger.  With all of life’s demands, it’s hard enough to just find the time to string together a few coherent sentences and get them published to your blog with any consistency.  What’s needed is a ‘have your cake and eat it too’ solution for adding great, legally licensed images to your posts.  Adding the right images to a post can really make it pop!  Well placed thematic photos and illustrations can aid in garnering the type of attention and traffic you want. read more…

Pull Your Vox Blog into WordPress

AWWA    Cool Links     blog, content, import, Vox, WordPress

Vox turned out to be less than it was cooked up to be. Did you know that if you have a Vox blog that you can pull it into WordPress? You can’t export out of Vox, but you can import it into WordPress.