If you follow me on Twitter, you noticed that I recently bought a home and that I was confused about the date of BlogIndiana. I’m happy to say that our move-in date and the blog conference are on separate weekends, so now you don’t have to help me move (you were planning on it right?). You can go to BlogIndiana at the IUPUI Campus Center on August 16th and 17th.
I’ve been familiarizing myself with WordPress 2.5’s new media gallery. If you’ve visited my blog before, you know I don’t upload many images, but I’m hoping to upload many images to my wife, Rachel Steely’s website. I was annoyed to find out that the default image posting size is medium (which is about 300px). On top of that, if you select full size, it doesn’t mean full size. It means your WordPress theme’s column width. So unless you are using Kubrick your media size will not be your column width. (more…)
It’s been a hot debate over what to include in your blog’s RSS recently. I say you should include more than blog posts in your RSS feed IF (and this is a big if) you can editorialize what goes in. The following, explains how to change which tweets from Twitter get posted to your blog and into your RSS feed.
If you use Alex King’s Twitter Tools (version: 1.1b1), you will want to make the following two changes to his code. The first one will make your tweet-post URLs and title more beautiful and SEO friendly by not splitting words at the end. The second one will remove reply tweets (’@username’) from becoming posts in your blog, so that half-conversations do not get recorded. (more…)
In WordPress Administration under Options->Reading, there is an option to set a “Front page” and “Posts page.” The front page setting is fairly straightforward. If you do not want your latest blog posts (index.php) as your homepage, you can set a static page and its template as the root page (http://www.example.com/). This is great for an under construction page, too.
Posts Page
What is a post page? If you have disabled the default homepage (explained?Ǭ† above) and made it a static template page, then where are your latest posts? They are on this page.
1) Create a page (Write>Write Page) and make the “Page Slug” on the sidebar whatever URL slug you want to be the location of your posts. I recommend making it be the same as your custom structure (Options>Permalinks, e.g. - “blog” as in “/blog/%postname%/”).
2) Go to this Options->Reading and in the drop down box for “Posts Page” you can now choose your newly created page (e.g.- “Blog”).
The contents of this page (i.e.- “Blog”) will never really be accessible. Now if the user goes to “http://www.example.com/blog” then they will see the latest posts instead of an error.