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Upgraded to 2.5

Pål Heick — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:13:41 +0000

I just upgraded to 2.5 – I seem to belong to the 50% of WordPress users that actually like the new admin interface.
Upgrading was flawless and I then decided to restructure my permalinks – hopefully the Redirection-plugin along with pinging Google Sitemaps will save my poor 404 page from the worst heat. Otherwise – please bear with me until Google figures out what happened.

Pushing WordPress design – Ford Global Auto Show

Pål Heick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:07:32 +0000

If you are in need of an effective case demonstrating that WordPress can look all cool and glittery – head over to the Ford Global Auto Show. Very slick design, open comments and of course lots of all those little social bookmarking icons, invitations to use rss, netvibes, iGoogle and whatnot.

Only thing that bothers me a bit is their use of date-based permalinks. It may not mean much but I think these two urls speak for them selves:

Current permalink example:http://autoshows.ford.com/213/2008/02/06/factory-customized-2009-ford-edge/

Suggested permalink:
http://autoshows.ford.com/ford/factory-customized-2009-ford-edge/

What do you think?

Anyhows – Go have a look (yes the image is linked):

Wordpress 2.5 – where art thou?

Pål Heick — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:15:46 +0000

Wordpress release Roadmap

Update:
The suspense finally drove me to westi on wordpress, where Peter Westwood, one of the Lead Developers of WordPress, reports on the status of WordPress development. Be warned: nothing there for non-nerds.

Testing vodpod extension for firefox

Pål Heick — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:24:41 +0000

2805 Vishakapatnam – Secunderabad Janmabhoomi Express headed by LGD 22592 WAP-4, speeds through Chiluvur station on the Vijayawada – Tenali section at well over 100Kmph.

from www.vimeo.com posted with vodpod

Seems to work pretty well… – Vimeo boasts having HD-video service, so I thought I might check that out

New Theme: Amazing Grace

Pål Heick — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:28:10 +0000

I’ve been in want for a new theme for a while, so when Amazing Grace was reviewed over on Theme Playground magic happened.

There’ll probably be some changes to the theme in the near future and I’m also considering restructuring my rather lame URLs – I’m just hoping that the fantastic plugin redirection will make the change a bit less of a 404-nigthmare for search engine traffic

And yes, I know there’s an issue with my description – I’ve been trying to move it to the left but time of night and lacking skills are determining factors in this matter. CSS buffs: input welcome

Update:

I left a comment at the theme author and – voila – the issue was fixed within 5 minutes.

…I’m really starting to like this whole internet/blogging thing.

BlogDesk – the one and only blogging client?

Pål Heick — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:57:25 +0000

I’ve just downloaded and tested BlogDesk after a recommendation from the good Rasmus Sørensen. It may just be the offline blogging client I’ve been looking for, as this client lets me populate the excerpt field in WordPress. So far I’ve tried out 5-6 clients, including ScribeFire for Firefox. So I decided to write this review/test of BlogDesk.

Installation is straight forward and adding account is hassle free and the interface is nice and clean.

The only thing I miss is an option for adding tags and a button for blockquotes.

BlogDesk supports all major blogging tools:

BlogDesk is totaly free of charge and optimized for the blog systems WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity and ExpressionEngine as well as the bloghosters Blogg.de and Twoday.net.

Wordpress cheat sheet

Pål Heick — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:26:09 +0000

If you’ve been tampering just a little with Wordpress and also consider doing so in the future WPcandy has created a handy little cheat sheet with the most common WordPress:

Basic Template Files

PHP Snippets for the Header

PHP Snippets for the Templates

And Extra Stuff for WordPress

Well, go look: The WordPress Help Sheet – …and yes, I know they call it help sheet….

Forfatteren og internettet

Pål Heick — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:41:38 +0000

Jeg faldt over forfatteren Klaus Kjøllers website – det ser ud til at manden har bedrevet en form for blogging siden 1999. I begyndelsen mest henvisninger til anmeldelser, men senerehen også i større omfang kommentarer til samfund, litteratur og egne udgivelser. Der er rigtig meget spændende indhold på sitet, men det bærer også i høj grad præg af at være hjemmelavet. Ikke et ondt ord om hjemmelavede websites, men grænserne for kvaliteten og udessendet af hjemmelavede websites har flyttet sig en hel del. Kunne ikke lade være med at klikke lidt rundt på Klaus Kjøllers website og faldt over dette citat:

Derfor har jeg prioriteret det funktionelle og enkle, på bekostning af det smarte. Muligvis skyldes det også i høj grad at jeg ønsker selv at være i stand til at udforme og revidere netstedet fra top til bund. Og da jeg ikke gider læse manualer, bruger jeg det jeg kan lave i mit tekstbehandlingsprogram.
(Hvad kan en forfatter bruge et netsted til?)

..og den holdning er helt fin med mig, men der er jo altså sket en del med internettet siden 1999. Så kære Klaus, vil du ikke nok overveje at få en blog? Det kræver sikkert lidt flytten rundt med dine gamle tekster, men du har jo tydeligvis en temmelig god forståelse for hvordan man bruger nettet. Jeg ville gætte på at der er en venlig sjæl, der vil hjælpe dig med projektet (ellers stiller jeg gerne op for et afmålt kvantum whiskey )

Faktisk slår det mig at det ikke behøver at være så stor en omvæltning at skifte til en blog, da Word 2007 jo ifølge den gode Don Tørnings eksperimenter jo fungerer formidabelt.

En blog er en blog er en blog

Pål Heick — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:49:14 +0000

For nylig er det Cision (Tidligere observer), der tager journalister til efterretning for at sige at blogs ikke er relevante for deres arbejde…

Hør nu her:
Blogs er en medieform ligesom bøger, aviser, fjernsyn, radio og websites generelt. Det giver lige så lidt mening at udtale sig generelt om blogs som om bøger.

Idag skriver Business.dk så at danske virksomheder halter efter på blogområdet. Det lyder rigtigt nok, men Business.dk refererer en undersøgelse foretaget af Cision og Primelabs, hvor de 100 mest populære danske blogs taget med. Og så er det jo, jeg gerne vil vide, hvor man kan få listen over de 100 mest populære danske blogs? Technorati? Blogbot? Overskrift? Eller har Cision været gode til at formidle deres begejstring for Twingly – en ganske ny, svensk platform med fokus på “information om och från realtidswebben” (quote).
Faktisk har Twingly det nærmeste man kommer på dagens opgave – en rapport over dette års svenske blog-opførsel (pdf forude).

Update:
Jacob fra Cision har været så venlig at pege i retning af den samlede liste over de 99 mest populære blogs i Cision/Twingly-optik:Top 99 (en til pdf forude). Der er nu også et blogindlæg, der svarer på nogle af de ovenfor stillede spørgsmål: Kort over den danske blogosfære.

…og til dem, der er ved at være trætte af parafraseringen af Gertrude Stein, synes jeg stadig at en blog er en blog er en blog.

Blogs on blogging

Pål Heick — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:55:28 +0000

I’ve taken the liberty to sport the list here, but if you want the explanation and insights, go read:
Top 25 Blogs About Blogging

Go have fun:


#1	Problogger	6	10	10	10	36
#2	Copyblogger	6	9	10	10	35
#3	John Chow	6	10	6	10	32
#4	Quick Online Tips	6	8	10	6	30
#5	Lorelle on Wordpress	6	8	6	9	29
#6	Daily Blog Tips	5	8	6	8	27
#7	Performancing	7	8	1	10	26
#8	Weblog Tools Collection	6	9	5	6	26
#9	Blog Herald	6	7	4	9	26
#10	Blogging Pro	6	7	4	8	25
#11	Successful-Blog	6	6	4	8	24
#12	JohnTP	6	8	3	7	24
#13	Dosh Dosh	4	8	3	8	23
#14	Engtech	6	6	2	7	21
#15	Bloggers Blog	6	3	6	5	20
#16	Andy Beard	5	7	2	6	20
#17	ChrisG	5	6	4	4	19
#18	Converstations	5	3	5	6	19
#19	The Wrong Advices	5	4	1	5	15
#20	Business Blog Wire	6	2	2	4	14
#21	Alister Cameron	5	4	1	4	14
#22	Blogtrepreneur	5	3	1	4	13
#23	I Help You Blog	4	3	2	2	12
#24	Build A Better Blog	6	1	3	1	11
#25	Blog Talks	4	2	1	3	10