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Plugin: Flickr Photo Album For WordPress
I finally found a new (and almost excellent) working plugin to integrate your Flickr photos and albums into your WordPress blog (see my photos page): Flickr Photo Album For WordPress: tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/ After giving up on other plugins like Slickr Gallery or Falbum, this one seems to work quite nicely (after adjusting the template, that is, which took quite some time). Unfortunately, there are still at least two three issues: In the title bar, every child page to my photos page shows a “404 File Not Found” error, although the page is being displayed correctly. It works well with the main “/photos/” link, since I have created a page with that name. I know this issue is a known bug, but has anyone found a solution to this, yet? Private photos … Read entire article »
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Disqus And Broken Anchors
If you have the feeling that the anchors to the comments and to the comment form are broken since you installed the Disqus Comment System plugin for WordPress, you might want to read along… maybe you’d also be interested in other posts about Disqus. When displaying how many comments a post has, WordPress determines the link to the comment section in two ways. If there is a comment, the anchor will be “#comments” (id=”comments”), if there are none, the anchor will be “#respond”, which leads directly to the comment form (“Leave A Reply”). People who are interested in viewing the WordPress source code should look at the function comments_popup_link(), defined in wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 946ff … Read entire article »
How To Add Ping-/Trackbacks When Using Disqus
As I mentioned in this post, ping-/trackbacks are not yet supported by Disqus when using the plugin for WordPress. When you export the comments from WordPress, ping-/trackbacks are simply not imported into the Disqus database, yet (they promised that they are working on it). In the meantime, I managed to add this feature by using the ping-/trackbacks that are stored within the WordPress comments table (mostly, this will be wp_comments). This is what it looks like (see the original post): How it’s done: I wrote a function named DisplayPingTrackbacks() which achieves the goal. In the single.php, I simply put it before comments_template() is called by WordPress, which – in my case – looks like this: … Read entire article »
Auto-Embedded Videos And RSS Feeds
Sometimes, embedded videos are not shown in an rss feed. Therefore, I managed to adapt the Kimili Flash Embed plugin so that it shows a small note above the video in an rss feed, reading: There should be an embedded flash video visible below. If it does not show in your feed reader, please visit the original post to view it. Since WordPress 2.9, you can now use the auto-embed feature, which makes it much easier to embed videos. It was a little harder to reach the same goal here, but I finally managed: here’s a little plugin that uses the embed_oembed_html-filter to add a small note above the video if a feed is being … Read entire article »
Disqus, Changed Comments And Facebook Connect
I recently had the problem that I wanted to re-import some comments that I had made some (minor) changes to into the Disqus system using the Disqus Comment System plugin. Well, just bluntly hitting the “Export Comments” button in the Advanced Options didn’t help… the changed comments were not imported and remained in their unchanged form. … Read entire article »
Worldcup 2010 – Impressions From Hannover, Germany
We’ve just entered the Quarter Finals by beating the English world cup team with an awesome official 4:1 – and an inofficial 4:2 if you count the English goal that bounced off of the top post behind the line, but wasn’t declared a goal (which was just a justified compensation for the “Wembley Goal” [de|en|YouTube] in 1966). BTW: I am always amazed by how quickly the Wikipedia articles are updated – especially the English ones… Here are some impressions from Hannover, Germany: (Feel free to leave some links or opinions to YOUR impressions in the comment section.) [Update from 2010-07-03] Here are some more impressions – this time after Germany made their way into the … Read entire article »
Disqus Comments Not Yet Working With Ping-/Trackbacks
It seems like the Disqus Comment System plugin for WordPress does not import ping- and trackbacks, yet (see this link). Quoting the response to my eMail that I wrote to the Disqus Heldpesk: Hi Marco, Trackbacks are currently not being included as comments, we’re sorry for the inconvenience. We’re looking into right now and will be addressed in one of our upcoming updates. You can catch these updates on our blog at http://blog.disqus.com Thanks, Ryan (end of quote) It seems as if we have to wait a little longer for that feature. [Update from 2010-07-09] Until they have found a method to include ping-/trackbacks, I will use a little workaround based on the WordPress database. … Read entire article »
WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Released!
WordPress 3.0 is out now! You can download it here. Also, check out the official WordPress Blog for what’s new in WP 3.0. Here’s a little video: … Read entire article »
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Finally, as of today, Marco Luthe Online! has a new face! After altering Sadish Bala’s Mistylook theme for a long, long time (it was the only theme i’ve been using up until now, and I stayed with version 1.0.1!), I have decided to give this website a whole new look. Welcome the Cover WP Theme by One Designs – which, of course, I also had to slightly alter. Here are some of the adjustments I made: changed the number of pages shown in the horizontal navigation > 6, added a latest tweet container above the horizontal navigation, placed the search bar higher, used the “featured” container for “recently updated” posts, added number of posts per … Read entire article »
Was tun bei Nasennebenhöhlenentzündung? [de]
Laut medizinfo.de wird jeder siebte Deutsche einmal im Jahr von einer Nasennebenhöhlenentzündung (Sinusitis) heimgesucht. Diese ist äußerst unangenehm und äußert sich bei mir folgendermaßen: Schmerzen, wenn man auf den Wangenknochen unterhalb des Auges drückt, der Schmerz nimmt zu, wenn man den Kopf nach vorne/unten beugt, der Kopf ist “dicht”, häufig begleitet von Schnupfen, (druck)empfindliche Zähne im Oberkiefer. Da ich des öfteren einmal davon betroffen bin, hier meine Tipps, wie ich bisher erfolgreich dagegen angehen konnte – vielleicht kann das einigen helfen: Morgens und abends je eine Nasenspülung (äußerst hilfreich!) – am besten dafür geeignetes Salz verwenden. Dies ist zwar relativ teuer, aber dafür ist man auf der sicheren Seite. Es ist nämlich gar nicht so … Read entire article »