Tag: WordPress plugins

Minor site updates

… just because there is nothing better to do at 5am, and WordPress 3.6 is not here yet.

  1. Replaced Lightbox 2 plugin with Fancybox for WordPress.  Lightbox worked fine, but had an annoying conflict with the images in the “About me” section.  Now it all looks nice and dandy.
  2. Removed featured posts section from the header.  I keep forgetting to use those, and having featured posts from last year seems a little awkward.  Maybe I’ll bring them back later.

I’ve also wanted to try the Infinite Scroll plugin from WordPress Jetpack, but apparently my theme does not support it yet.  So I’ll leave it for Facebook and Twitter for now.

VaultPress Lite

VaultPress Lite

VaultPress, “the world’s best WordPress security, backup and support”, has recently introduced a Lite plan.  It’s only $5 per month and it covers most of the essentials:

  • Daily backups that happen automatically, so you can focus on creating, not logistics.
  • Automated site restores, so you can restore your entire site with a single click.
  • Thirty days of saved backups, so you can go back in time to restore the last clean version of your site.

It’s cheap enough for small, personal blogs, and it’s more than perfect for start-ups and small businesses too.  $60 per year for healthy full night sleep is nothing in my book.

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.