{"id":8859,"date":"2005-04-23T00:39:10","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T21:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/22\/wordpress-bits\/"},"modified":"2005-04-26T22:04:50","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T19:04:50","slug":"wordpress-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/23\/wordpress-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>As a new user of <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> I spent some time studing and customizing it.  I&#8217;ve seen some really nice resources along the way that I want to promote and be able to find easier later on.  For this reason I am writing up this post with links to stuff that I liked.  Hopefully it will also be useful to other people trying out <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Themes<\/strong>.  There are plenty themes for <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a>.  Lots of them actually.  Firstly, I came across a really nice compilation of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogging.typepad.com\/how_to_blog\/2005\/03\/comprehensive_l.html\">270+ themes for WordPress 1.5<\/a>. Than I saw even more resources mentioned at <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Using_Themes\">Codex::Using_Themes<\/a>.  After much trying and testing I chose <a href=\"http:\/\/wuhan.authenticasian.com\/\">Wuhan<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plugins<\/strong>.  Once again &#8211; lots and lots to see, read about, download, and try.  Mostly good stuff.  And again, the best listing of resources at <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Plugins\">Codex::Plugins<\/a>.  I am still in process of studing all of these, but here is the list of what I found useful so far.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rummanddan.dk\/plugins\/\">RumMovie<\/a> &#8211; essential for anyone writing about movies.  This plugin allows one to quickly insert infromation from <a title=\"Internet Movie DataBase\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\">IMDB<\/a> into the post.  Formatting can be easily tweaked with the template.  Pluging provides a search functionality and movie image retrieval.  This plugin alone saved me a lot of time and will continue do so in the future.  Writing movie reviews is a bliss now.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jamietalbot.com\/wp-hacks\/#P_singular\">Singular<\/a> &#8211; takes care of permalinks.  See, if you have a bunch of posts with the same title (like I have with &#8220;Picture of the day&#8221;) and if you use the title in the permalink, than, by default, <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> would add a unique number to the permalinked title, like picture-of-the-day-1 and picture-of-the-day-2.  I don&#8217;t need such behaviour since my permalinks include a date and I never have a post with the same title and the same date.  <a href=\"http:\/\/jamietalbot.com\/wp-hacks\/#P_singular\">Singular<\/a> plugin takes care of this problem by removing the annoying number. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ryanduff.net\/projects\/wp-contactform\/\">WP-ContactForm<\/a> &#8211; provides an easy way to create a contact form.  Need I say more?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic.php?id=30483\">Database Manager<\/a> &#8211; optimizations, backups, and restores of the database.  Essential after you&#8217;ve wrote your third post or so.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tumultco.com\/blog\/index.php?p=24\">del.ico.us Smart Tagging<\/a> &#8211; automatically create links from posts to <a href=\"http:\/\/del.ico.us\">del.ico.us<\/a> tags.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffee2code.com\/archives\/2004\/06\/29\/plugin-text-replace\/\">Text Replace<\/a> &#8211; automatic replacement of text, like frequent links, names, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Documentation<\/strong>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> has an excellent set of documentation, as well as broad support by community.  <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/\">Codex<\/a> is the primary site for any documentation references.  WordPress <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/\">support forums<\/a> are excellent too.  WordPress itself, as well as themes and plugins, is getting a lot of coverage at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingpro.com\/\">Blogging Pro<\/a>.  Yet another good resource is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogging.typepad.com\/how_to_blog\/\">How To Blog<\/a>.  And, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogtoolscollection.com\/\">Weblog Tools Collection<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be updating this post with any new resources that I find on my way.  Meanwhile I think I gave you enough to occupy yourselves for some time now.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>As a new user of WordPress I spent some time studing and customizing it. I&#8217;ve seen some really nice resources along the way that I want to promote and be able to find easier later on. For this reason I am writing up this post with links to stuff that I liked. 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