Look Mom! No Hands Plugins! Video Embedding Is Super Simple Now.
Once again, WordPress rocks my world…this time in the arena of embedding video in posts and pages. With the advent of 2.9, we can now embed video from:
YouTube
Vimeo
DailyMotion
blip.tv
Flickr (both videos and images)
Viddler
Hulu
Qik
Revision3
Scribd
Photobucket
PollDaddy
Google Video
WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being)
So, how [...]
Continue reading »Interview with Tom Volkar: WordPress Summer Camp 2009 Sneak Peek
At the request of several of the already registered campers who received this pre-camp BONUS call over the weekend, I am sharing it with you. As Marty Marsh so eloquently put it in an email to me:
“I hope that all of your summer camp participants will listen, and I also hope that you won’t [...]
The Easy Way to Put YouTube Videos On Your WordPress Site or Blog
You want to put videos on your blog, but you don’t know how. You think it’s probably fairly technical, so you leave it on the to-do list for later, because you don’t have the time to learn something technical right now.
Here’s the good news: It’s really very easy to do!
The one thing to remember is [...]
Clean Up Your WordPress Database with One Click
We’ve talked about why it’s important to degrag your hard drive regularly. The same is true for your WordPress database.
MySQL is the type of database WordPress uses, and while it’s a great database, sometimes it doesn’t clean up after itself too well, and left unaddressed, you could end up with the same sort of problems [...]
Should It Be a Post or a Page?
Yesterday, a client asked if it mattered whether she put her content in as a post or a page. This is a question I’m frequently asked by those new to WordPress, so I told her I would answer her here at the site so everyone else wondering could get the answer without having to ask.
(By [...]
3 Reasons NOT to Copy/Paste from MS Word
Lots of people are used to using Microsoft Word, and when they want to write something, immediately they open up Word and start writing. You might be one of them. That’s all fine and dandy, as long as what you’re writing isn’t your next blog post.
Why?
Continue reading »Save Paper, Ink and Mother Earth with the Eco-Safe Merit Badge Plugin
I hate filing papers.
At the very thought, I’m transported back in time to the most horrific temp job I ever had: locked away in a window-less room full of filing cabinets tasked with filing purchase orders 8 hours a day. I lasted 2 days.
Fast forward 20 years later, I store everything I possibly can [...]
Turn Off Post Revisions for Single User Blogs
If you’ve upgraded your WP blog to WordPress 2.6 and are the only author of the blog, you might want to consider turning off the post revisions feature to keep your database from becoming bloated. Most single user blogs do not require the post revision feature.
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