Comments on: WordPress meetup in Copenhagen http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/ Thoughts about communication - technical, accessible, usable, and otherwise... Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:41:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: WordPress Meetup Fun – 12 July in Copenhagen - Mardahl.dk http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-15058 WordPress Meetup Fun – 12 July in Copenhagen - Mardahl.dk Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:38:41 +0000 http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/#comment-15058 [...] was surprised to see that we have only had 4 WordPress meetups since 4 March 2007 (where I brought the birthday cake!) Maybe I can’t count. Perhaps it is the sense of [...] [...] was surprised to see that we have only had 4 WordPress meetups since 4 March 2007 (where I brought the birthday cake!) Maybe I can’t count. Perhaps it is the sense of [...]

]]> By: Karen http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Karen Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:25:47 +0000 http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/#comment-194 I only had time to do my 2.1.2 update this weekend. The Sidebar Widget from Automattic worked, but the calendar was still weird. I added the calendar to the sidebar using the widget, and I uncommented the calendar in sidebar.php. The sidebar remained in place, as opposed to disappearing, like it did last time. However, the calender was slightly off to one side like it had been ripped out of a frame. I checked my css. There was one item called calendar and a whole bunch of things called wp-calendar. That threw me. Time is precious, so since I couldn't see a solution within 5 seconds, I commented the calendar out again and saved the task for another rainy day. By the way, you wanted Related Posts? I found indications that there is some widget called WP Related Posts that requires the Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW). However, all links were 404s. Maybe check out the php code next time you see a site that has it, and you can find out what you can tweak in your existing code? I moved on to look at UTW. Tags appears on my Manage page, so that is a good sign, even though it looks like UTW only goes to 2.0, and not 2.1.x. I went to http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/23/the-ultimate-tag-warrior-wordpress-plugin/ where the amazing Lorelle has a post that provides a lot of help - and lots of links - for UTW. This is where you will also find lots of links about categories vs. tags. I won't repeat them hear because they are all listed neatly on Lorelle's page. Once again I stopped my updates. Lorelle has excellent advice for the fearful novice. The reason I stopped is: what am I going to do with tags? There are several options (tags for your own site or tags to Technorati, for example). I only recently started adding tags (which you cannot see yet) to my pages, so if I got this working, a lot of posts would show No Tags, which looks silly. And I want to rethink this category vs. tag thing. All in all, this will require a bit of thinking. I would rather think such a thing through several times before I implement it. I believe it will save time in the long run. This means another delay in this project, but that's life! Stay tuned! I only had time to do my 2.1.2 update this weekend. The Sidebar Widget from Automattic worked, but the calendar was still weird. I added the calendar to the sidebar using the widget, and I uncommented the calendar in sidebar.php. The sidebar remained in place, as opposed to disappearing, like it did last time. However, the calender was slightly off to one side like it had been ripped out of a frame. I checked my css. There was one item called calendar and a whole bunch of things called wp-calendar. That threw me. Time is precious, so since I couldn’t see a solution within 5 seconds, I commented the calendar out again and saved the task for another rainy day.

By the way, you wanted Related Posts? I found indications that there is some widget called WP Related Posts that requires the Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW). However, all links were 404s. Maybe check out the php code next time you see a site that has it, and you can find out what you can tweak in your existing code?

I moved on to look at UTW. Tags appears on my Manage page, so that is a good sign, even though it looks like UTW only goes to 2.0, and not 2.1.x. I went to http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/23/the-ultimate-tag-warrior-wordpress-plugin/ where the amazing Lorelle has a post that provides a lot of help – and lots of links – for UTW. This is where you will also find lots of links about categories vs. tags. I won’t repeat them hear because they are all listed neatly on Lorelle’s page. Once again I stopped my updates. Lorelle has excellent advice for the fearful novice. The reason I stopped is: what am I going to do with tags? There are several options (tags for your own site or tags to Technorati, for example). I only recently started adding tags (which you cannot see yet) to my pages, so if I got this working, a lot of posts would show No Tags, which looks silly. And I want to rethink this category vs. tag thing. All in all, this will require a bit of thinking. I would rather think such a thing through several times before I implement it. I believe it will save time in the long run. This means another delay in this project, but that’s life! Stay tuned!

]]> By: Tom Johnson http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Tom Johnson Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:51:31 +0000 http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/#comment-163 The Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin is definitely one I want to start using. You said, "I learned a cool tip about combining Categories and Tags for categorizing my posts." When you do get the time, please share. WordPress is a fun platform to blog in, isn't it? The Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin is definitely one I want to start using. You said,
“I learned a cool tip about combining Categories and Tags for categorizing my posts.” When you do get the time, please share. WordPress is a fun platform to blog in, isn’t it?

]]> By: karen http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-161 karen Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:37:11 +0000 http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/#comment-161 Tom: I'll investigate the issues you mention this coming weekend. When I downloaded UTW, it didn't look like it supported 2.1 at all. However, someone with 2.1 demo'ed it for me, so... I just posted something using tags in preparation for the day when they'll be visible. I liked the two layers to play with: categories and tags. The way this person uses these two items is to just have a few categories, but expand more on the tags. There seems to be a nice balance that way. It'll require a bit of thinking and planning to get the right balance, but hey, I'm a tech writer. This is what I do! :-) Tom: I’ll investigate the issues you mention this coming weekend. When I downloaded UTW, it didn’t look like it supported 2.1 at all. However, someone with 2.1 demo’ed it for me, so… I just posted something using tags in preparation for the day when they’ll be visible. I liked the two layers to play with: categories and tags. The way this person uses these two items is to just have a few categories, but expand more on the tags. There seems to be a nice balance that way. It’ll require a bit of thinking and planning to get the right balance, but hey, I’m a tech writer. This is what I do! :-)

]]> By: Tom Johnson http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Tom Johnson Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:52:07 +0000 http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/#comment-146 I uploaded your theme to briefly play around with it. Your theme does support widgets, but there is something wrong with the calendar code in the sidebar. When I uncommented it, I got a parse error and the sidebar didn't show. You can fix this by just deleting that entire calendar code. Once you upload the widgets plugin, drag the calendar widget into place and you'll see the calendar along with the rest of your sidebar. Re Ultimate Tag Warrior, make sure it's compatible with 2.1. I thought it wasn't yet, but I may be wrong. I am interested in figuring out how to add a few related posts links under my posts. Do you know how to do that? I uploaded your theme to briefly play around with it. Your theme does support widgets, but there is something wrong with the calendar code in the sidebar. When I uncommented it, I got a parse error and the sidebar didn’t show. You can fix this by just deleting that entire calendar code. Once you upload the widgets plugin, drag the calendar widget into place and you’ll see the calendar along with the rest of your sidebar.

Re Ultimate Tag Warrior, make sure it’s compatible with 2.1. I thought it wasn’t yet, but I may be wrong.

I am interested in figuring out how to add a few related posts links under my posts. Do you know how to do that?

]]> By: Karen http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Karen Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:35:58 +0000 http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/#comment-145 Britt: Thanks for posting the update tip. Tom: I should have added - I didn't know you could update the theme "so easily" in the administration panel. I thought I had to go straight to the PHP. My problem there was finding the right file without opening one, naw, that's not it, and moving on to the next, naw, that's not it, and so on. Seemed so tedious, but now I know it is a breeze on the admin panel. Why I overlooked that link on the Presentations page before, I don't know. I guess I just zipped by too fast! I downloaded the Ultimate Tag Warrior this weekend, because I learned a cool tip about combining Categories and Tags for categorizing my posts. I also downloaded a plug-in called Widgets from Automattic. Both were easy to unzip and find in my plug-in editor. Both allow/require tweaking in sidebars and stuff. That has to wait until next weekend time-wise. Don't know if a quick tweak will give problems. Learning to edit the themes was a huge breakthrough that allowed me to edit the h1 date finally. However, when I uncommented the calendar feature hidden there, my entire Sidebar was wiped out. Why? I don't know. Therefore, I probably need to set aside a bit of time to poke around and experiment. I am not even 100% sure my theme supports Widgets, but that stuff is all related, so I will get it figured out once I sit down and start tinkering. Yes, the admin panel sure beats fetching files, editing, uploading, testing, editing, uploading, etc.!! :-) Britt: Thanks for posting the update tip.

Tom: I should have added – I didn’t know you could update the theme “so easily” in the administration panel. I thought I had to go straight to the PHP. My problem there was finding the right file without opening one, naw, that’s not it, and moving on to the next, naw, that’s not it, and so on. Seemed so tedious, but now I know it is a breeze on the admin panel. Why I overlooked that link on the Presentations page before, I don’t know. I guess I just zipped by too fast! I downloaded the Ultimate Tag Warrior this weekend, because I learned a cool tip about combining Categories and Tags for categorizing my posts. I also downloaded a plug-in called Widgets from Automattic. Both were easy to unzip and find in my plug-in editor. Both allow/require tweaking in sidebars and stuff. That has to wait until next weekend time-wise. Don’t know if a quick tweak will give problems. Learning to edit the themes was a huge breakthrough that allowed me to edit the h1 date finally. However, when I uncommented the calendar feature hidden there, my entire Sidebar was wiped out. Why? I don’t know. Therefore, I probably need to set aside a bit of time to poke around and experiment. I am not even 100% sure my theme supports Widgets, but that stuff is all related, so I will get it figured out once I sit down and start tinkering. Yes, the admin panel sure beats fetching files, editing, uploading, testing, editing, uploading, etc.!! :-)

]]> By: Tom Johnson http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Tom Johnson Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:51:23 +0000 http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/#comment-131 Karen, Thanks for the live update from your meetup. Sounds like fun. You wrote, "I had never realized that I could edit features of my theme until today. Eureka! This is located under Presentations in the administration panel. Smart!" Dude, this is where the power of WordPress comes into play. The wordpress.com free version lacks this customization feature. I recommend reading the codex to learn about the various tags. You can also edit your plugins at Plugins>Plugins Editor. Remember a while back when I said I wanted to learn PHP better? Well, when you look at the code behind the plugins and behind some of the themes, the coding complexity increases. Karen,

Thanks for the live update from your meetup. Sounds like fun.

You wrote, “I had never realized that I could edit features of my theme until today. Eureka! This is located under Presentations in the administration panel. Smart!”

Dude, this is where the power of WordPress comes into play. The wordpress.com free version lacks this customization feature. I recommend reading the codex to learn about the various tags. You can also edit your plugins at Plugins>Plugins Editor.

Remember a while back when I said I wanted to learn PHP better? Well, when you look at the code behind the plugins and behind some of the themes, the coding complexity increases.

]]> By: Tak til dem, der mødte op at WordPress DK http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Tak til dem, der mødte op at WordPress DK Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:09:30 +0000 http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/#comment-129 [...] der) kan se billeder på 23 og på Flickr og læse om arrangementet hos eksempelvis Lisa Risager, Mardahl, Eksponering, Podblog, Undertegnede, Mark, OrdPress, Maltesen og [...] [...] der) kan se billeder på 23 og på Flickr og læse om arrangementet hos eksempelvis Lisa Risager, Mardahl, Eksponering, Podblog, Undertegnede, Mark, OrdPress, Maltesen og [...]

]]> By: Britt Malka http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Britt Malka Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:05:39 +0000 http://www.mardahl.dk/2007/03/04/wordpress-meetup-in-copenhagen/#comment-128 Yes, you're right. There's a wonderful blogging world out there, redy to explore :-) WordPress is no doubt the leading blogging script, which is unfortunately also a vulnerability. If an IT pirat finds a loopwhole, it's easy to explore thousands of blogs for a whole community of script kiddies. Therefore your WordPress should always be kept updated. Right now there's an important update from version 2.1.1 til version 2.1.2, because somebody hacked the server of WordPress.org and created a loopwhole in the existant version. For those who read Danish there's more about it here: http://www.tips-og-tricks.com/blog/vigtigt-opdater-din-wordpress-blog/ Yes, you’re right. There’s a wonderful blogging world out there, redy to explore :-)

WordPress is no doubt the leading blogging script, which is unfortunately also a vulnerability. If an IT pirat finds a loopwhole, it’s easy to explore thousands of blogs for a whole community of script kiddies. Therefore your WordPress should always be kept updated.

Right now there’s an important update from version 2.1.1 til version 2.1.2, because somebody hacked the server of WordPress.org and created a loopwhole in the existant version. For those who read Danish there’s more about it here: http://www.tips-og-tricks.com/blog/vigtigt-opdater-din-wordpress-blog/

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