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Callouts: I need a WordPress plugin

By dlambert ⋅ October 24, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

In a recent post, I wanted to break out a paragraph into a callout or sidebar — a little box of goodness inset into the body of my post. This proved rather more difficult than I’d planned. Initially, I crafted the callout by hand, using a DIV for the box, and two DIVs within that [...]

Zemanta is a blogger’s best friend

By dlambert ⋅ October 22, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

Shortly before I switched this blog to WordPress, I learned about a new tool called Zemanta.  It was supposed to provide context-sensitive links and images, chosen dynamically to be relevant to the work in progress.  It sounded pretty cool, and I tried to set it up under Drupal, but couldn’t quite get it done.  After [...]

WordPress SEO optimization ROCKS!

By dlambert ⋅ October 11, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

One of the things I noticed shortly after switching this blog to WordPress was the terrific support for SEO optimization.  WordPress does a very good job of this itself, with good support for keywords, Meta tags, and so on, but there are also some really fantastic plugins for WordPress that kick it up a notch [...]

Use .htaccess to redirect from Drupal to WordPress

By dlambert ⋅ August 30, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

As I mentioned, I just converted from Drupal to WordPress, and one of the most difficult parts of the conversion was figuring out how to redirect Drupal’s old urls to the new equivalents in WordPress.  I’d taken care to carry over ID values intact, so the mapping was easy, and Apache should have been quite [...]

Now running on WordPress

By dlambert ⋅ August 28, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

If you’re a regular visitor, you probably notice a few changes here – I just converted from Drupal to WordPress. There wasn’t a single big reason to convert, but rather a bunch of little reasons, like these: I was looking at a Drupal upgrade to stay current, so I was at a point where I [...]

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