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Tyler | December 18th, 2008
When I first set up TysTips.com I intended it to be a place for Blog tips , and blog tips only. However, after a few months I decided that it would be nice to blog about some of my personal projects for documentation purposes. For simplicity I wanted to include those blog posts in this Blog, but since they strayed from the theme of the Blog, I wanted them on their own separate Page called “Projects”.
You can see here that originally TysTips.com had two Tabs or Pages in the top Nav bar. “Home” and “Contact”. I wanted to add a third page with the title “Projects”.
Adding a new Page Tab titled “Projects” turned out to be simple. However, posting to “Projects” was a little more difficult and will be covered in another post (here). For now, here are the steps I used to add a new page to my wordpress blog
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Tyler | August 12th, 2008
It is said that there are over 70,000,000 blogs in existence.
The Million Blog List is an experiment to see how long it will take to get 1,000,000 blogs to list themselves on their site. Will it work? Probably. The experiment is to see how long will it take. The Million Blog List project started April 10th, 2008.
Add your Blog Now!
If nothing else, it’s an easy way to get one more link to your blog.
TysTips is blog #2076!
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Tyler | August 11th, 2008
Scribefire is a handy blog publishing tool available for those of us who use Firefox for browsing. This Firefox Add-on supports the following blogging platforms:
- Wordpress
- Movable Type
- Drupal
- Textpattern
- Roller
- Meta Weblog API
- Blogger
With
Scribefire, you can create new blog posts (and even edit existing posts) without ever logging into your blog. This is particularly useful if you need to incorporate images or text from multiple web pages into your post.
For example, let’s say …read full articles of "Blog Faster and Smarter with Scribefire!"
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Tyler | June 21st, 2008
E-mail spiders have become a full-blown epidemic (er… infestation?) on the web, crawling sites and collecting email addresses for evil spammers. Fortunately there are a number of ways you can protect yourself.
The number one thing you can do to prevent your address from being harvested is to not provide it to your visitors at all. Unfortunately, this isn’t practical for most people. Visitors generally feel a site is more reputable if contact information has been provided.
If you feel you must provide your email address to visitors, here are a few methods to secure your address, as well as a few methods to avoid.
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Tyler | June 15th, 2008
One of the most popular plugins out there for WordPress is the
Popularity Contest Plugin by Alex King. This plugin ranks the popularity your posts by pageviews, trackbacks, comments, etc and displays a popularity value at the bottom of the post.
It also allows you to put a list of “Most Popular Posts” on your sidebar.
Unfortunately, WordPress 2.5.1 users get a fatal error when trying to activate the plugin. The good news is, it’s a fairly easy fix, especially if you were using the plugin in a previous version of WordPress. If you weren’t using the plugin before upgrading or installing WordPress 2.5.1, the fix is a bit more involved, but still doable. Please note, this fix isn’t my own. I learned about it here. I’ve rewritten the steps to hopefully provide a clear step-by-step account of the process (complete with screenshots for those of us who like pictures).
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