Tag: blogging

WordPress plugin : Auto-Schedule Posts

WordPress plugin : Auto-Schedule Posts

You gotta love WordPress!  For anything that you can pretty much think of, there is a plugin already.  Just now I realized that I’ve been posting quite a few things at once, and that it would be way better to distribute such moments of “creativity” across the whole day.  There is, of course, the manual way of post scheduling, but that’s boring and annoying.   Instead, I thought, there could be a plugin to do so.  Gladly, I checked the WordPress plugins before jumping into my own coding.

Auto-Schedule Posts

Auto-Schedule Posts plugin does just that and more.  For now, I’m setting it to a 60 minute interval and leaving everything else default. Let’s see how that will work out.

 

Update: Unfortunately I had to disable this plugin as it conflicts with the Social plugin (and, I suspect, many other ones too).  The post is not available until later, yet social network notifications are being sent out, resulting in bad experience (endless redirect loops and such).

The Daily Post introduces Photography 101 series

The Daily Post blog which I mentioned a few times before has started yet another rather useful thingy – a series of posts on how to become a better photographer.  Here is the first post, and it’s rather good.  There are not too lengthy explanations, bullet point summaries, and, of course, excellent images.

There are several common misconceptions about photography: it’s about art, it’s about light, it’s about subject. All of those things are true, but even before all of that, it’s about people and psychology. (Even photographs that have no people in them!) The photographer makes an interpretation of the scene/subject; on the other end, the viewer makes another interpretation. The very best photographs and photographers convey their ideas cleanly to the end viewer, while still leaving room for imaginative interpretation. This means that to make a good image, you need to be able to recognize one.

Back when photography was one of my primary hobbies, I read a lot of articles, books, and forums.  Writing like that is rare.  Simple, yet concise language.  It’s almost like someone is just talking to you.

Capsule – developer’s scratch pad

I’ve just learned about Capsule, and I think you should too.

capsule

 

It is based off WordPress, and does sound interesting.  But the two best things about it, I think, are that a developer can keep it private, and that a developer can connect his own Capsule to multiple Capsule servers.  That ought to be a killer feature, as the only two arguments that I’ve heard from developers trying to make them blog more were, if only I had a better way of organizing my private code snippets, and if only I could share them privately with project teammates.

P.S.: I am also a big fan of using P2 theme for WordPress, which works wonders for project teams.  But Capsule seems to be an even better tool for developer kinds.

WordPress plugin : Threads

I just came across Alex King’s announcement of his new plugin – Threads:

I’ve just released an initial beta of Threads, a WordPress plugin I’ve been working on for about a year. The idea is simple: show posts that comprise a single overall story/topic in a timeline. Then link to that timeline from the posts so that your readers have a chance to get more historical context about a post without you having to link back to 20 previous posts.

This sounds like an excellent idea.  Some of things that I see it being used for are event coverage posts and live blogging.  There are, of course, already plugins for WordPress to  Organize Series of posts, and to do Live Blogging.  But they each have their limitations.   Live blogging posts easily get huge.   And series do have a navigational nightmare about them.  It looks like Threads plugin aims to address those issues.