Twitter Search Gets a Little More Powerful We missed this last week when ReadWriteWeb reported it, but maybe you did, too. So here's something we've just discovered. A small but very handy change at Twitter's search engine, search.twitter.com, means it now peeks inside the expanded versions of web addresses shortened using services like bit.ly and TinyURL. The implications for you? Here are two: Searching using your site's domain as a keyword (e.g. Handy, no? Link to original post Connect: Authored by: Rob Cottingham Rob is a founder of Social Signal, a social media strategy firm in Vancouver, Canada. See complete profile
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converting links from MT to WordPress I had over 1,000 posts in Movable Type that were archived individually, by month and by category. When I switched to WordPress I changed the format of the permanent links to include the date and title instead of the non-portable post ID (which, by the way, MT does not include when you export your blog so your permanent links won’t work if you export and import your blog through MT either). I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to get those old URLs to forward to WordPress but in the end it wasn’t all that difficult. RewriteRule ^archive/([0-9]{4})_([0-9]{2}).html$ /index.php? The category names would have been easy except that Movable Type uses underscores and WordPress uses hyphens. $title = strtolower( "<$MTArchiveTitle$>" ); $title = preg_replace('/&.+? I did pretty much the same thing with Individual archives except I needed to add the date in addition to converting the title to the post slug. $title = strtolower( "<$MTArchiveTitle$>" ); $title = preg_replace('/&.+?
Sales and Marketing Strategy: Shout it from the rooftops? Marketing and sales, the key functions of any business to generate the revenues to keep you in operation. But when is the right time to start marketing and sales activity when you are a start-up business? This question needs a bit of thought. When you are ready is the right answer, but what on earth does that actually mean? Are those who shout their intentions from the roof-tops and let the world know that they are coming before they actually do correct? Or is it more appropriate to stay quiet working away diligently in a “black box” only targeting a selected audience to achieve your purpose. Marketing and Sales : Start early to raise awareness? Conscious of the fact that marketing and sales are different functions, for the purpose of this article, I am going to discuss the two under the umbrella of “awareness”. I had an interesting chat with a colleague today about his previous life in a major start-up in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s. There was no marketing. Photo : Suneko
Stupid WordPress Tricks One of the most popular articles here at Perishable Press is my January 2005 post, Stupid htaccess Tricks. In that article, I bring together an extensive collection of awesome copy-&-paste HTAccess code snippets. Four years later, people continue to tell me how much they enjoy and use the content as a bookmarked reference for many of their HTAccess needs. The article was even published in a book on Joomla! Security. This is very inspiring to me, so I have decided to create a similar post for all of the useful WordPress code snippets, tips and tricks that I have collected while working on Digging into WordPress, the new book by co-author Chris Coyier and myself that really “digs in” to all of the awesome ways to get the most out of WordPress. If you are one of the millions of people who use WordPress, this article will help you improve the appearance, functionality, and performance of your WordPress-powered websites. Table of Contents WordPress Shortcodes ↑ Source: Digging into WordPress <!
Sunnybank74 The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress – Part one: 101 Techniques for a Powerful CMS using WordPress - Noupe Design Blog May 05 2009 This is the first article in the three-part series, “The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress”. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites. The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress – Part 2 The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress – Part 3 There are some technical stuff we have to get out of the way first. WordPress CMS Hacks and Tricks 1. By default, a WordPress home page shows chronological blog post entries — with the most recent post at the top. How To » In your admin area, just go to Setting » Reading. Points to take care » First problem you may run into when you make a static page your home page is that the link to that page now appears in the main site navigation. 2. Adding too many pages to a WordPress blog that has a navigation bar in the header can really make your WordPress blog a mess. 3.
WordPress Custom Field Template Plugin Tutorial 1/13/2011 – New and improved function used for retrieving custom field data for the current post called base_get_all_custom_fields(). This function will run a database query to get all custom fields attached to the current page, post or post type and store them in an array. WordPress is great for dynamically managing the content of a website, but sometimes you encounter situations that require advanced management to handle different sections of a single page. It’s would be great if we could manage separate chunks of content with more than one WYSIWYG. Well guess what, you can, and it’s easier than you may think. The best solution I’ve found for this situation is the Custom Field Template plugin. Setup Your Template Download and activate Custom Field TemplateGo to Settings > Custom Field TemplateCustomize Your Template. Template Code Add this under Settings > Custom Field Template > Custom Field Template Options Box Use The get_custom_field() Function to Get Custom Fields Individually if( !
Discoverylover's Blog Custom Field Template The Custom Field Template plugin adds the default custom fields on the Write Post/Page. The template format is almost same as the one of the rc:custom_field_gui plugin. The difference is following. You can set any number of the custom field templates and switch the templates when you write/edit the post/page.This plugin does not use the ini file for the template but set it in the option page of the plugin.Support for TinyMCE in the textarea.Support for media buttons in the textarea. - requires at least 2.5.Support for multiple fields with the same key.Support for hideKey and label options.You can see the full option list in the setting page of the plugin.You can customize the design of custom field template with css.You can replace custom keys by labels.You can use wpautop function.You can use PHP codes in order to set values. Localization If you have translated into your language, please let me know. Japanese Custom Field Template Manual