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Adding External Content (via RSS) to Wordpress

October 14, 2009

There are many plugins that let you pull in posts from an RSS feed. But if you want to show them WITHOUT filling up your database, this is your solution.

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Thesis Tip #3 – Multiple content areas

August 26, 2009

This is a very elegant solution to the problem of having multiple content areas on a single page. It uses headlines to identify the different blocks of content.

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Thesis Tip #2 – Additional Sidebars

August 2, 2009

Additional sidebars allow you to easily manage content that doesn’t fit in a post or page. I’ll outline how to implement them using Thesis, but you could also do this with any Wordpress theme.

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Thesis Tip #1 – Custom Images and Category Pages

July 26, 2009

As I’ve been working with Thesis a lot lately, I thought it would be a good idea to start posting some tips for customizing it. This post covers customizing post image/thumbnails and displaying category posts on pages.

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Search Engine Optimization for Wordpress

July 6, 2009

These are notes from a presentation by Matt Cutts (from Google) on optimizing your Wordpress site. While Wordpress already takes care of most SEO issues, there are a few things you can do to improve it. But remember the 80/20 rule: 80% of SEO is writing compelling content for your readers. The other 20% is simple optimizations of that content.

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Quickly find books at library

June 30, 2009

Here’s a script you can use in Firefox to see if a book is at your local library.

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Easy Contact Forms using Google Forms

June 15, 2009

This is a more technical post than usual. I outline how to quickly build a Contact Form for Wordpress (or any other site).

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Review of Effectuation

June 9, 2009

Causal strategies are useful when the future is predictable, goals are clear, and the environment is independent of our actions; effectual strategies are useful when the future is unpredictable, goals are unclear, and the environment is driven by human action.

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Recent Readings

April 30, 2009

Some thoughts and excerpts from books I’ve read recently.

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Facebook's New Layout – richhumofair

March 18, 2009

(Posted as comment here)
There’s two problems with facebook copying twitter’s design:
1. (what I call the) Mental bandwidth of facebook users; and
2. different content types
Twitter users are used to a stream of data, not trying to see everything but seeing what’s happening in real time. Facebook users don’t want to see everything their friends are doing, [...]

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