Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

When you’ve got quite a few pages in Wordpress you need to have some sort of way to organise then. Page Category Organiser from Yellow Swordfish which looks like it could be quite the thing.

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Back in March I wrote a piece about plugins that could be used to show photos in Wordpress. Well today I did some more research and found a bunch more sine the last time. Here’s the summary of the update …
Aniga gallery. “manage your pictures in categories and albums”. “Its integrated in the WP posts […]

Wordpress plugin to support newsletter management (using AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) in the front-office).
wp-ajax-newsletter

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I’ve been looking at a few approaches for displaying photos in Wordpress blogs, for Ventnor Blog and Digital-Lifestyles.
There’s quite a few different approaches and these span Web 1.0 and 2.0. After filtering them down, the ones I’ve found most impressive are

Falbum - which is a Web 1.0 approach, slickly done with next/previous ability. Loads […]

Oh joy of joys!
I’ve finally managed to get Plazes off my machine. I can’t tell you how many ways I’ve tried to get it off.
I originally found it a pretty cool idea, but when I realised that my home location was shown, I decided not to use it any more.
Over the last 3-4 months I’ve […]

Now in my new WordPress clothes, I’m looking for ways to use it better.
This one isn’t rocket science, but will act as reference - How to use WordPress to run a magazine news website.

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I had to turn off my blog comments a couple of years ago because the flow of spam was so high I couldn’t stay on top of deleting it, and the type of comment being posted became too revolting (promoting incest sites, etc).
I hated having to lose the feedback from readers and resented the scum […]

One of the not-often mentioned advantages of Web 2.0 interfaces - done well - is the capture of problems and errors before submitting the form, and the data potentially getting lost.
A great example of this Gmail (of course). When after typing in your heart-felt email you click the Send button, it appears that the Web […]

Quick note from eTech conf.
Microsoft have just announced that they have bought Onfolio, a tools to help organise your online content.
Previously it was $30, but will now be included free - if you download and install the new Microsoft Live toolbar plug in.
Further deatils on Digital-Lifestyles later.

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Putting this Scheme live was inspired by reading techChrunch talking about FlySpy. There’s tons of potential in making the picking of flights easier.
Don’t expect this level of frequency of Scheme-posting, I’m just understanding the process, what’s involved.

Self Defined Flight Search mp3
Self Defined Flight Search OGG Vobis

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