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28
Jul

Moving into the Cloud

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Blogging, Life and Wordpress
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After making the argument a while back with several of my friends to use Site5 to host their blog and other web services, I am moving my blog to wordpress.com.  Nothing against Site5, it is just a change of life and priorities that is creating the move more than anything else.  Hosting your own blog software requires geek time to review and update from time to time, and at the point in time, I need something that requires no maintenance.  WordPress.com fits the bill.  So as you will start to see, all my online services and life will be moving into the Web 2.0 cloud.

Also created a new blog for Anita and I to share stories, comments and opinions during our travels.  For those wanting to now where we just came back from, what happened or where we are planning to go, or what unique food we had - this is the place we will capture all this.

I have to say I have been plessantly surprised how well WordPress.com works.  The advanced fucntions on the GUI editor are nice, and I do not have to struggle with inserting pictures, etc.  ScribeFire (blogging plugin for Firefox) works well with it too.  You will see me changing themes for a bit until I find one that works for me.  I may just have to break down and do some CSS editing…but I am not there just yet.

15
Apr

Viper’s Video Quicktags for WordPress

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Blogging and Wordpress

Tired of copying and pasting the embed HTML from sites like YouTube into posts on your site? Well then this plugin is for you.Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, alignment on the page) and much more. Best of all, it won’t break your page’s (X)HTML validation.

Currently supports these video sites:

  • YouTube
  • Google Video
  • IFILM
  • Metacafe
  • MySpace

As well as these file types:

  • QuickTime (MOV, etc.)
  • Generic video files (AVI, MPEG, WMV, etc.)
  • Flash Video Files (FLV)

Viper’s Video Quicktags « Extend › Plugins

Not sure is anyone else rean into this problem, but after the last WordPress upgrade, embeding Youtube video just did not work. Quick Google search, and wham, WP-Plugin solution. Talk about nice, the buttons and everything are right there in the Write Post window. Very nice!

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27
Dec

Sociable - WordPress Plugin

By justisengard 0 Comments
Categories: Blogging and Wordpress

While experiencing some Christmas vacation, I have had time to add some improvement to the blog. Just added the WP Plugin Sociable. I have seen several blog with the cool digg and del.icoi.us icons at the bottom of each post and though it would be cool to have them, just in case, one of posts every gets dugg. Now wouldn’t that be something. After installing the plugin, I discovered during the configuration that it included buttons for a lot more bookmarking/commenting/etc sites than I knew existed - other than the normal digg, del.icio.us, and Newsvine. Soo, I have been going through the list and checking them out.

Below are some comments on a one minute checkout of the websites for each and whether they will enabled on each blog article.

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