I’m thinking it’s about time I start providing downloadable sample code along with my posts. Rather than copying and pasting code snippets into your own solution, it might be nice to alternatively download a compressed sample project. The Insert File Plugin for Windows Live Writer has been around for a while. Here’s my attempt at [...]
This announcement may be yesterday’s news for some, but I just discovered Aaron Lerch’s “Kick It” plugin today and it works like a charm. If you are using WordPress AND Windows Live Writer is your go-to editor AND your posts tend to be .NET related, give Aaron Lerch’s DotNetKicks “Kick It” Counter Plugin for Windows [...]
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With the attention that Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google are getting for agreeing on a standard sitemaps protocol, I figured it was probably time I got one in place which meets standard found on sitemaps.org. Though I’m sure I would have had a lot of fun using the Google Sitemap Generator Python scripts recommended by Google Webmaster Tools, [...]
I’ve freely shared that my blog is “powered by” WordPress and I have enthusiastically endorsed the product time and time again. Heck, I may have posted enough praise to last WordPress a lifetime, but since Andreas Kraus asked for it, I am going to share a little more. Here’s the top 3 things I love [...]
What is it? Well, WebSnapr 2.0 is a service which lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. It allows your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. And it claims to “increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness,” though I’m not sure how. I first saw it used on DotNetKicks and I thought [...]
You may have noticed that I have already incorporated a number of plugins into my blog. I have added plugins for breadcrumb navigation, clean post tag displays, management of comment spam, display of recent comments, submission of threaded comments and to capture some site statistics. All of these plugins were freely available. All of these [...]
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Yesterday, I felt dumb. I tried using trackbacks for the first time and it took me way too long to figure them out. Stupid! Stupid. Stupid? Most likely, but maybe not. First. What is a trackback? Per Wikipedia: TrackBack is a mechanism for communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, [...]
UPDATE: I disabled threaded comments on 3/17/2009 when I updated my theme. I can still recommend the nest comments plugin (below) as I used it for years, but I no longer have anything to show for it. To be honest, I am very surprised that threaded (or nested) comments don’t come out-of-the-box with a fresh [...]