Introducing The Rant-o-Meter WordPress plugin

This morning I wrote a bit of a rant about the Verified by Visa password limitations and an issue came up that has come up for me before. How to quickly, but comically, let someone know what they are getting into when they come to a post on my blog? Like some kind of “Rant indicator” to make them aware of what my mood is? [rant-o-meter mood="Happy" align="right"] I’ve thought about making one for a...

Wildcard Subdomains with A Small Orange

Real quick post to add to the Googleverse about setting up a wildcard subdomain with A Small Orange, which I recently tried to do and couldn’t figure out right away. If you, as the documentation and the support ticket staff both told me, go to the Advanced DNS Editor to enter a wildcard DNS record, you get an error. As you can see in the image, the validation states that the Name must be a domain with an...

A quick intro to Github for WordPressers

Yesterday, I was honored to speak at WordCamp Portland about using Source Control systems with WordPress. The talk was meant as little more than a 10,000 ft view of some of the reasons you might want to consider using source control, and some of the possibilities that it presents. As always, the 10,000 foot view is good for a comic introduction to something, but not for any real understanding. Thus, I wanted to...

WordCampPDX in 0… 15… 30…

Today, I created an outline, but more on that later. Right now, I want to talk about WordPress. I love WordPress. WordPress is a dream come true. It’s a great writer’s platform, it’s a great programmer’s platform, it’s a great tinker’s platform… It’s also a total and complete pain in the ass. Like many great things, it’s virtually perfect. And, like many great...

Making Sociable More… Sociable

This post is from Positively Glorious!, just to give us a start. I’ve been using the Sociable WordPress plugin for a while now. It’s a plugin that gives instant links to various social media sites, to help you spread your bloggy goodness around the world. One thing that I love about this plugin is the fact that it shows a tagline before the list of links (just look to the end of this post for what...