Easy Index

While experimenting with YOP Poll, I came across Easy Index, which looked rather pretty, although it depends on on the featured images chosen. I made a category index to see how it looked. This might be better if one of the first plugins chosen as it would allow you to chose the featured images more…

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WordPress in the Cloud

WordPress is famously available at wordpress.com as Software-as-a-Service. What should one do if one comes to the conclusion that this isn’t what you need? The two obvious solutions are one of the cloud providers and I should say I personally use one&one for various reasons.

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WordPress 301 Redirects

I am looking to 301 my old blog.davelevy.info site. This would seem to be complicated by the need to transform the permalinks from ./YYYY/MM/DD/slug into ./slug. Here are my notes, …

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WordPress calendar plugin

I have just installed the time.ly All-in-One Event Calendar, a wordpress plugin on this wiki/blog. It’s rather cool, you can view the one event, a test on this wiki via the calendar page and here. The event has an “add to calendar” widget, which I have been playing with on other blogs. It displays a…

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Lightsail & WordPress

First I had to get permission, then it was easy. There is a wordpress canned service, and how to install, boot and retrieve the password is documented here. This article by Adrian Milne helped in doing the copy from source.

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Archive Widget Plugin

I have just installed the “jQuery Archive List Widget”. This offers collapsable archive lists. It’s so easy. You configure it once installed by the widget management page. It’s now available on my home page’s 2nd page.

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WordPress & LDAP

Can we do better? I have looked at membership management and recorded it on this article, but I consider that if we want other services that a common single user list would be best and given my history it has to be LDAP.

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Adding an Event to a Calendar

I wanted to add a widget to a wordpress web article that allowed readers to add the event to their calendars. I found the site called, “AddEvent“. Fabulous. Proving that doing one thing well is all a web service has to do.

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