Did you hear that sound? That low, thunking kind of sound? Yeah that’s the sound of a writer working on a book about WordPress banging their head against a wall (or desk). In case you didn’t know, book publishing timelines are rather long. Not as long as say, Microsoft OS releases, but typically longer than the release schedule for WordPress. Using WordPress is slated to be release in July (feel free to pre-order now), and in case you hadn’t looked at a calendar it’s March and my first draft of [...]
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WordPress how-to,
WordPress MU,
WordPress tips
Very soon after I started blogging, I started using a blog editor to power up my blogging (and prevent the “aiiigghhh I lost my connection and my post!!!!” which was very common at conferences, still is actually). In those days I was using Qumana for the most part, which makes sense since I was a part of the company and helping guide the growth of the app.
For its time, Qumana was a fantastic blogging app. It was almost perfect (I was always pushing for more and better refinement), but Qumana [...]
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I hit a big milestone tonight with Using WordPress, reaching the 75% mark finishing writing chapter 13 tonight. I still have to format them in the Pearson Word style, take some screenshots, and record the audio-video parts, but the hardest part is done. This book has certainly been a whirlwind thus far, a huge difference from Create Your Own Blog. There is a bit of an unknown to manage–when WordPress 3.0 comes out and how much of the book will I need to update.
I knew this would be part of [...]
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You know my kvetching about “Missed Schedule” posts? Yeah still haven’t found that 100% answer yet. So, I’m taking my own advice and posting this without any plugins running. Yes, I know this goes out to Twitter. And yes, I might delete this post. Why am I writing a post of actually length instead of the classic “test post”? Because I think there is a connection with post length, number of categories set, and tags and the error.
And even though I should be working on “lucky” chapter 13, this is [...]
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WordPress bugs
I’ve been putting the wraps on the chapter on managing media in WordPress (yes, I know, “don’t”, ha ha I already used that joke) and when I got to the section on working with WordPress galleries, I had to ask myself “Does anyone really use them?”
Personally, I almost never do (I used one once I think) and prefer to use Flickr for my gallery needs. One of the biggest limitations with galleries in WordPress is that you can’t use existing images in your media library, you have to upload them [...]
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There’s nothing like being a WordPress user who’s supposed to know what’s what and not being able to get a basic thing like posting through a blog editor to work consistently. Since WP 2.9.1 came out I’ve had a helluva time with WordPress on DreamHost. I get strange 404 not found errors and when I’m posting remotely either a) all of the time or b) when planets in a distant as yet unknown galaxy align I get the charming “Missed Schedule” error.
Since, as you might gather I’d rather figure this [...]
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WordPress bugs,
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Last Fall I started doing a WordPress One Minute Podcast and put 11 episodes in the can before I got busy and stopped (let’s call it “on hiatus”). Since I’m working on Using WordPress right now, I thought I’d bring the episodes over here.
Here is the episode list and you can download all the episodes below:
Ep 1: Pasting from Word
Ep 2: Disable the default admin account
Ep 3: Turbo-charge admin panels
Ep 4: WP.com vs WP.org
Ep 5: Press this bookmarklet
Ep 6: Sidebar widgets
Ep 7: CPanel file manager
Ep 8: Pretty Permalinks
Ep 9: Upgrading [...]
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If you get to the point where you think you know enough to stop learning, then you’re too stupid to know that you’re finished. That might be crass, but over the past year with a book and a half under my belt I’ve figured out that I have a ton left to learn in this world.
Every time I thought, “Yeah I have a good handle on this, but I’m just going to double-check something…” found out that I didn’t have a good handle on it and I learned far more [...]
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Custom fields,
SEO,
Thesis
I’m plodding through Chapter 10 of Using WordPress now. The chapter is on one of my favorite WP topics—using WordPress for things other than blogs (sites, collaboration, project management). I might be over-thinking this chapter, but it’s going well. As I was researching/double-checking some facts on using WordPress for websites, I came across a really great post on converting existing websites to WordPress. David’s method is simple, elegant, and one that I hadn’t thought of trying. I did some more research and am pretty well convinced that his method is [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. If you are interested in having Tris speak, teach, lead a workshop or consult for you, feel free to email tris [at] trishussey [dot] com.
