Portability in the Twitter World

February 26, 2010

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I read the Internet. And I do this using Feeddemon. I read it like the Sunday paper. Sometimes one day during the week sometimes 2 and on Sundays. I subscribe to almost three dozen feeds. Some are only photo streams, some are Twitter streams and some are actual full blogs and – well you get the picture, if it has an RSS feed I will read it. If I like it.

I would love to be able to carry my feeds over to my ebook but at this time most sites do not format for ebook screens. :-(

Anyway, in Feeddemon there is an option to share, this sends a link to whatever I was reading to Google Reader. From there I can do any other sharing automatically. I choose my Twitter stream. There is also an option to share with a note.

One thing: When I shared with a note knowing it would go to Twitter I wanted to give twitcred to the author. So I link to their Twitter account with a via @whoeverwroteit – this was fine until I ran into feeds where I did not know the author. Blogs like Huffington Post have multiple authors. Then I would have to manually look up the author and of course this was not fun nor efficient and if anything pains me most it it inefficiency.

So I thought about it? THE FEED!!!! THE FEED!!!!!!!!

So I edited the code on my own website. I added via @jchronowski47 to the title of each blog post to display only in feeds. That way when it is shared through an aggregator and/or parsed through whatever means to Twitter from my RSS feed it already supplies the poster with my twitcred mention :-)

Not sharing just reading then the via @ doesn’t hurt it is just there.

 

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Now all I have to do is cross my fingers and hope the world also thinks of this. Or reads this post.

Then my life would be easier and I would be happier, at least on my digital planet.

 

 

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#Wordpress Short URL Feature Too Cool for Words

November 29, 2009

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I am not sure how this is enabled. It may be because of some plugin that I have installed or it may be a feature built into WordPress itself. But whatever this makes life so much easier.

I was creating custom fields for shortened URL to each post (ie: bitlyurl = bit.ly/1234 tinyurl = tinyurl.com/1234 etc.etc.)

How labor intensive to add each one into the custom WP field of each post. I first had to go the the shortener site and create the URL then copy paste it and update the post. Pain in the neck. but I wanted to display the short URL so…

Then I was playing with the code and discovered that when I used this snippet
view the txt here
But It must be linked to one of the like idk 85 plugins I have installed and also I tweaked them all so they are not original anymore.

I was also thinking that it could be linked to the Ping or Trackback features in WP.

Who know what happened but the URLs pour in from all of the shortening services automatically after they are created by anyone. Love it!!!!

BUT and there is almost always a but with new code snippets. It does not seem to work consistently.

It works here http://www.juanitachronowski.com/jdcblog/?p=1835

but not here (on this page) http://www.juanitachronowski.com/jdcblog/?p=2056 at least not at the time of posting this.

I am not sure what the factor is that turns it on.. :-(

If anyone knows what could cause this let me know.  Otherwise I chalk it up to a happy happenstance where it works and not worry too much about it when it doesn’t.

If you try it on your site and it works let me know (comment here I dofollow back) also

Thinking in Code

November 29, 2009

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I was at the store with my hubby when all of a sudden it came to me. I was having a problem with some CSS on a site I was working on. What could be the problem? I knew it had something to do with my nested DIVs but which one and where?

pguicheteauwpUsing separate files for each part of the site and each part of each page on each site can be confusing sometimes. I customize any applications and websites that I code and this was no exception. I was changing things to spec on the fly and lost track of one stray tag.

I had designed my own theme to match an old design that was completely in ASP. I had to migrate it to WordPress and convert the database to fit into the WPbase MySQL and rewrite all the ASP to PHP. And also make it function the same. That meant hacking about 20 plugins, modifying and creating my own functions and really getting into the deep end of CSS because I was using a multi-column design and did not want to resort to tables within WordPress.

So I am going over each line of code in my head while shopping (What better time to do that?) then about 60 lines of code in I screamed out loud. “OhMyGaad! I put that DIV in the wrong file, I have it in two places!” I could not wait to get home. I had put a div in the main file and in the head by mistake.

I somehow think that my nerdy/geek husband was not too happy with my revelation. Or maybe it was the public outburst? It was a eureka moment what can I say. When inspiration hit – it hits.

Anyway — Fixed. I slept well that night.

Yes, I am geekgrrl and proud of it :-)   I was a nerd before nerds were multi-billionaires.

Now about that website job you need done. give me a call.

CSS – Wordpress Paging footer – Maroon 01

November 24, 2009

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Please comment here to link to the site where you will use this theme. I do follow approved URLs

this theme is for the Wordpress plugin (that allows the display of numbered pages instead of the previous | next) found here by jenst.se

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#wp_page_numbers ul, #wp_page_numbers li, #wp_page_numbers a
{
background-position: center left;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
border-style: none;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
list-style: none;
text-transform: none;
text-indent: 0px;
font-variant: normal;
text-align: left;
line-height: 12px;
letter-spacing: 0px;
word-spacing: 0px;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: Arial;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
}

#wp_page_numbers
{
margin-top: 10px;
width: 100%;
border-color: white;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: dashed;
background-position: center left;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-color: maroon;
color: silver;
}

#wp_page_numbers ul
{
width: 100%;
}

#wp_page_numbers li
{
float: left;
display: block;
}

#wp_page_numbers a
{
padding: 6px;
padding-left: 4px;
padding-right: 4px;
display: block;
}

#wp_page_numbers li a:hover
{
text-decoration: underline;
background-color: orange;
color: #000;
}

#wp_page_numbers li.space
{
padding: 6px;
}

#wp_page_numbers li.active_page a
{
background-position: center left;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
padding: 6px;
padding-left: 8px;
padding-right: 8px;
color: olive;
font-size: 115%;
}

#wp_page_numbers li.active_page a:hover
{
color: red;/* IE fix */
}

#wp_page_numbers li.page_info
{
float: left;
display: block;
padding: 6px;
padding-right: 8px;
font-size: 11px;
}

The Website Favicon

October 24, 2009

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Here are a  few tips to help your website standardize and better integrate with other websites link lists that display this icon.

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  • put your favicon (the little picture that shows up next to your URL in a browser window) in your root directory www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico
  • file name should be favicon.ico

If you don’t have one get one made or make one yourself  use one of the links below

Buy this book: Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

Post to Plurk Bookmarklet

August 24, 2009

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_Post To Plurk_

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Add this link to your Favorites then when you are on a page that you would like to share on Plurk click the link.  I use this bookmarklet in IE8

 

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