Archive for March, 2007
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Like most WordPress users I quite often pop over to
Lorelle VanFossen’s blog for news and tips, and one of the nicest things that I first noticed when I went there was her signature at the end of every post. I wished I could have the same on my site but I thought that this was probably something she had paid quite highly for as a special feature on her blog, something that I would never be able to afford. Well now I have something similar on my own blog, and it’s free!
My Live Signature (aff.) allows you to add your signature to your blogs, e-mails and forums. There are plenty of fonts to choose from and you can select the colour that best suits your blogs stylesheet.
There is a WordPress plugin that makes the addition of your signature to your posts automatic and retro-active.
The static versions are provided free of charge, if you feel the need to go for an animated version their prices are pretty reasonable ($19.95), and if you want to have a template made specially from your own hand writing they also provide this service for $9.95, though I would advise against using the same signature as you use to sign your cheques!
I think they make a nifty addition to the blog and add a little more personalization. What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
| MyLiveSignature offers the services of creating and animating personal signatures. You can use it to
easily create your own signature using a set of templates or to allow our designers to create your signature
based on a scanned image. At the same time, our animators will give you the true impression that you sign
your message with your own hand in real time.Such signatures will allow you to easily and quickly breathe the energy of your personal presence into email
messages, blogs, forums and websites and also they will serve as a pleasant present for your friends and relatives. |
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*EDIT: As an added bonus, there is a
WordPress plugin that automatically adds your signature to the posts, thanks to
Lorelle for pointing me to this*
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
There has been some discussion around the blogosphere of late about the need to add other languages to your blog, really allowing more people to "join the conversation"; see Lorelle Van Fossen's guest post at
ProBlogger and catch up with what has been happening over at the "
Weblog Tools Collection" site and "
The Blog Herald".
Well today I came across this plugin,
Robs Translator, that does just that via the "Google" translator. This will allow you to add 11 languages to your blog and is based on the plugin created by
Scott Trough, which can be found
here.
I will be adding this to my Sandbox blog at first and then hopefully adding it to my blog here if all goes well.
Give it a try and let me know what you think in the comments, or if you are using one of the other translators out there for your site feel free to recommend it. :-)
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Thanks to Zirona, an open source consulting company, upgrading your WordPress installation has just become a much easier affair.
They have released their "InstantUpgrade" plugin, and having just tested it out on my sandbox site I can only say that it does exactly what it says on the box, my upgrade was pretty much instant and hassle free.
Zirona are a company from Aachen, Germany specializing in OpenSource web applications such as WordPress, osCommerce and Joomla.
Head on over to their site and
check it out for yourselves, you won't regret it.
Are there any other "upgrade" plugins you can recommend?
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The InstantUpgrade plugin
Fully automatic upgrades of your WordPress
Current version: 0.1
There’s no doubt about it: Upgrading is annoying. You must download the new version, unpack it, delete the old files, copy in the new files, run an upgrading routine.
Now for WordPress users, much of this is obsolete. The InstantUpgrade plugin provides is a easy and safe way to upgrade your WordPress automatically with a single click! (It is to say that it needs some preparations, though.) You can upgrade to the latest WordPress version, or you can upgrade to a version of your choice. |
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
There has been a lot of posts around the blogosphere about the attack on WordPress 2.1.1 and the need to update to 2.1.2, hope you have your's done by now!
Anyways, the good news is that you will probably need to do another update in the next week,
Secunia.com is warning of another vulnerability that could be exploited.
Oh happy days.
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Description:
Alexander Concha has discovered a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. |
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The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.1.2. Other versions may also be affected. |
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
According to sys-con media
SplashCast will soon be available to use on WordPress hosted sites, sounds like very Shiny news indeed!
| SplashCast achieved the following milestones during its first 30 days: -- The company today announced a strategic alliance with Automattic,
the company behind the popular WordPress hosted blog service
http://www.wordpress.com/ . SplashCast subscribers can now easily
publish their channels directly to a WordPress blog with a simple
'point and click' from their dashboard. Toni Schneider, CEO of
Automattic, noted: "SplashCast is pushing the envelope with their
innovative rich media syndication solution. Having SplashCast
integrated into WordPress.com helps our mission to empower our
bloggers with the best content creation and publishing tools on the
web." |
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What is Splash Cast? According to their site:
SplashCast enables anyone to create streaming media 'channels' that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. When channel owners modify their channel, their content is automatically updated across all the web pages 'tuned' to that channel.
I haven't had a chance to try it out myself yet, but you can bet I will be trying it soon!
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Once again it is time to upgrade WP with the latest fixes, nothing too major though:
We’ve got a new bugfix and security release for both of our actively maintained branches of WordPress. Version 2.1.1 includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. It’s available for immediate download on our download page.
Fortunately Mark Jaquith has kindly
prepared a smaller .zip file that just includes the updates that are needed if you already have 2.1 installed, though if you have downloaded that file previous to today you may need to do it again as a couple of files were apparently missing from the previously available .zip
Thanks Mark. :-)
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