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Conformity is NOT in My Dictionary

WordPress Removing tags

January 4, 2010

first I edited the file wp-includes/formatting.php

search for then it will find where it does a string replace of

$content = str_replace(' ', ' ', $content); this is for xhtml to display properly and with the correct syntax. Change it to

$content = str_replace(' ', ' ', $content);

Then go into the settings/writing section of your WordPress admin. Check if you are after all allowing XML-RPC (this will affect your ability to publish from programs like Windows Live Writer). If you don’t want it or don’t know what it is un-check the box. This way you can really be sure that no reformatting for XML should occur.

Of course the annoying thing is that you will have to re-edit the formatting.php file if you upgrade your WordPress install.

Theme Modification Night

January 2, 2010

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I had my theme Feed Me Seymour fully customized, just the way I wanted it, then the WordPress 2.9 upgrade and back to square one. I swear I will have to write my own themes. I don’t like intensive creative artistic type of work. I like the actual code part. Graphics I can do but my head hurts afterward from all the trying to get a nice look and feel. Most of the time I leave that shorted. But functionality I must have.

I have a long list of features that no longer work like separating my trackbacks from my actual comments. This will occupy my night tonight. Maybe I can keep my mind off the cold. Michigan can freeze you for the winter. Polar bears come here to vacation brrrrrr. We have the heat on but trying to keep from turning it on a constant 82 degrees takes some will power and I stopped being friendly with Will a while back. I do cheat. I use a portable heater in the living room our cat sleeps in front of it, actually she sleeps right on it. I keep telling her I am pretty sure cat fur is flammable, but you know how cats are.

About @sourcecow an Ultra-Valuable Long Overdue App for @Twitter

December 2, 2009

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Honestly, I love to see coders writing apps that are intuitive.

And the person coding sourcecow is in line to be a bestest friend if I ever met them in person. I love they way they think of process and code.

Now…

Everyone always asks themselves “Why are these people following me?” Even celebrities, I am sure.

And why would a company like, say, Pepsi be online if they did not want to see what people say about their products or to send information to consumers.

I might follow Pepsi because I want them to tweet coupons. How would Pepsi know this?? Then if I never get coupons I may unfollow. I would still buy Pepsi but it benefits no one if I am not getting what I want and they are not tweeting what I look for. If it were tv I would change the channel. Commercial value lost.

Maybe I followed Bill Gates to see if Microsoft will offer betas (Pick Me Me Me!!) of anything new. If I never get invited to take part in a beta then I may have no other reason to continue to follow MS. Maybe I just follow a lot of people in hopes of being followed back and I may never read many tweets at all? Then my reason to follow that person/company is nothing really. Just to follow.

How do we know? If a lot of people follow me to read my tweets about all things David Bowie then they may be highly disappointed. As I really love DB but may have only tweeted about him that few times that they read my stream and followed me. But at least I will be aware that that person wants to tweet about DB and I may DM or @ a few times directly to them about DB.

So this has enormous potential to unleash the true value of Twitter. Why use a marketing resource if you get no real, true, verifiable numbers? Twitter does not even make long term sense without sourcecow.

Actually a few followers have even DMd me and asked recently and some I know in person have said to me why has my level of communication dropped down Did I say something wrong? Am I not famous enough? Do people not like me? Should I just leave Twitter.

Eventually people drop services. Either they become too congested with advertising that does not really apply to them or they just find a better application that does the same thing and offers more customization and is better sorted out. Or people jsut get tired of trying to keep up with the interaction on both ends.

Like Facebook’s LIKE feature for ads. That is a good idea. I prefer seeing ads (if I must) that at least pertain to me. If I thumb down enough ads on FB about starting an account to trade stocks then I eventually will never see another ‘Do you want to trade stocks?’ ad on my FB pages. Nice… I have enough things I can’t get to – don’t toss more ads that are totally irrelevant at me.

So now for a few additional suggestions for sourcecow. My newest favorite Twitter app.

a feature to

say why you unfollow (and must be defaulted if they unfollow off of Twitters page like say with a mass unfollow tool.
add a why followed to people you already follow so you can be promoted to update this if it is not found on sc already.. Not sure what would be best way to do this…
a checkbox quick why feature
- want coupons
- like their humor
- same interests
- want product support
- just a fan
- interaction
with this quick select feature the data can be better disseminated.
a search for whys like if I want to search for everyone who was followed for tweeting about #hoarders the tv show then that could pop up.. and that should go along with a select each or all and follow feature.

Also I want to see why others follow say Adam Lambert. Are people following him who think he’s hot or just because they like his music or both like me? So there should be like a page for each twitter id if they have sourcecow info to show http://www.soucrecow.com/jchronowski47 would be mine.

And how about if I choose to allow the world to see why I follow or not. Some people do not want to say or if they do they might want it kept private for their own use and this should be honored. But if they choose to make there reasons public then how about a tab on their sourcecow URL that allows see why they are followed and why they followed other people.

and last but not least make it work in more browsers and leave it as a browser addon. Another application install no one needs. And Adobe Air sucks. Sorry Adobe but like your PDFs your application is bloated and slow and crashes my system using all it’s resources. And I have a lot of resouceses. But Photoshop is the be all end all so you save yourself .

I have lots of time on my hands being one of the millions unemployed in Michigan. And I love to think. So I am therefore opinionated. And I like things to work the way I use them. I can write code but I do not enjoy doing it when I am not paid to do so. So kudos to programmers who pound that keyboard and churn out thousands of lines of fabulous code for the rest of use to benefit from..

OK so my perfect 9-5 job would be working in a think tank. . . I love the implementers though. Where would we be without them.

#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?

Using 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

#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; }

Post to Plurk Bookmarklet

August 24, 2009

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_Post To Plurk_

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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Twitter Nirvana

June 11, 2009

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I had to add some features to my twitter page. (I have also created my own private (invitation only) Twitter app).

Twitter lacked some basic functionality and some cosmetic additions that I found would make my tweeting life easier.

so here is the list that adds them:

Greasemonkey www.greasespot.net in Firefox:
- Nested twitter Replies pratham.name
- Twitter Enhancements: ReTweet This
- Twitter Show Followers http://www.3greeneggs.com
- Twitter with Plurk Smilies
- Twitter and FriendFeed short URL Expander
- Twitter Friends Bio at a Glance
- Twitpic thumbnailer http://matatabi.homeip.net
- Pikchur thumnailer http://pikchur.com
- Bitly link info http://userscripts.org/users/60534
- Tiny URL decoder

All these scripts should be listed at http://userscripts.org/

I also get ALL my tweets in Outlook (via IntraVnews www.intravnews.com ) where you can do Outlooky things with them (archive, sort, forward them by email). That way I can just scan them en-bulk to see if I am missing anything. You can also subscribe to individual tweeps feeds and put them in a folder all their own. Also you can subscribe to your own feed and keep a record of what you have said. Last you can add your mentions feed so that you know right away what people are trying to talk to you about.

I have learned the RT is a courtesy worthy of building Twitter karma and that you should RT some cool things at least every now an again.

I have learned that you have to tweet at least once a day. This I actually learned on Plurk, but it applies to Twitter also. If you do not tweet at least once a day then you don’t really need to have a Twitter account. You probably need a microblog like Jaiku instead that is like a diary online in 140 or less.

DM is friendly and you can talk to all kinds of interesting people about all kinds of different topics. Then you can chat in public about things that are similar and you kind of get the feel for who this person is after DMing for a bit.

Someone has to FOLLOW YOU for you to DM them so if you ask a ? @ someone or they follow you and then you DM them please make sure that they can reply back by following them first.

When you click on the time of the tweet it takes you to the tweets individual page.

When you click on the in reply to @username under the tweet you go to the replies individual page.

You can save searches that will re-run the search query when you click that link.

You can save a tweet that is not DM by making it a favorite. As long as the original sender does not delete it.

On the Twitter settings link there is a tab called Connections where you can revoke permission to all those sites that you tried out where you signed in with OAuth, I leave the ones I use a lot on there.

Last but not least my favorite websites to companion Twitter.
- Twitter Karma http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ – you can follow and un-follow by the truck load and there is a feature that lets you see only the following or only the followers.
- 140 it http://140it.com/ – Turn a slightly long piece of text into 140 chars.
- EzTweets www.eztweets.com – When 140 is not enough this little web tool splits your (as long as you wish) into sorted numbered separate statuses. COOL! But use sparingly Twitter is popular in part because you are not hit with long messages.
- Tweepular http://tweepular.com – Great stats with a colorful interface.
- DM Whacker http://dcortesi.com/tools/dm-deleter/ – This one is a bookmarklet to clean out your DMs

Actually If you have data you can do ANYTHING with a good query. People say to me all the time you can’t do that on the web. I say watch me. So kudos to Twitter for having the right data and API to work with in an app that has inspired literally over 800 third party programs. Which you can browse through at www.twitdom.com

Technorati Tags: twitter,how to,social media

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100 tutorial sites. Lots of something news :-)

June 1, 2009

learn something new today

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100+ best sites to find tutorials!-http://tutsearch.net/links/index.html RT @gaksdesigns

Directory Structure Is Important

May 9, 2009

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When setting up a web server the structure of your directory system is extremely important.

You have to think of the way it will be used. I have my WP on same level as my root so that if I reference an image it does not know where to find it. I did not configure this structure. I suppose there are ways to make it workable but seems like a lot of trouble for no reason to me.

Anyway I fixed my RT links. so instead of the short jack-in.com/?p=138 it will have to read juanitachronowski.com/jdcblog/?p=138 for now anyway. I guess people will have to learn how to spell my name from memory. Juanita Chronowski . but the /jdcblog part hmmmm… Well I am not moving my Wp again. I just got situated (and not yet fully) on the new server.

I think I am settled into my WP as CMS

May 6, 2009

learn something new today

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You tweek and configure and customize for days and days then one day you hope that you don’t feel the need to add or subtract anything. BOOM! That day has come. I am comfortable in the way my website is functioning. I have everything I need right now running on it both front and back end. YEAH! W00T! YiP!

Now just cross my fingers and hope nothing breaks. And back up daily