MooseCamp - WordPress and Your Problems Followup

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:03:21 +0000

During the MooseCamp session “WordPress and your problems” I promised to look into a few items that we were discussing, and report back to the group. I’ve finally made some time to dig around, and here’s the goods.

Nancy White asked some questions about tweaking her WordPress site, and they were all things that sounded really good, but that I didn’t know how to implement.

Automatically tagging new posts on the WordPress site on del.icio.us - not sucking del.icio.us tags into WordPress, or listing latest sites tagged, but automatically bookmarking each new post (with categories and tags applied as in the WP post) in a way similar to the Twitter Tools plugin’s broadcasting of new posts. I haven’t found any way to do this, but am still looking.
Hierarchical menu display - how to have expandable/collapsible menus within the WordPress site?
- http://wordpress.org/support/topic/122121
- http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/wordpress/30/
Use del.icio.us as a source of tag autocompletion within WordPress? The idea is that there should be a canonical set of tags that a person can use for all of their tagging - blog, flickr, del.icio.us - and that it would be great if WordPress could use a person’s del.icio.us tags as the source for an autocompletion while tagging new blog posts within WordPress. I haven’t found anything that does this, but know a BUNCH of people would be smiling if something could be found.
How to add a link to an external website as part of the main page menu structure? it’s possible to hack a theme to add links this way, but not in the middle of the menu. I’ve found the WordPress Menubar Plugin, which looks close, but am still wondering if there’s a more mainstream way to do this.

Reflections on Northern Voice 2008

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:46:33 +0000

I’m not going to post a conference recap, and others have beaten me to the punch with eloquent reflections on the event. It’s one of those things that sounds like fanaticism - the sense of wonder usually reserved for such things as the TED conference (aside: could you imagine going to that? how many toes would I gladly trade for a TED pass?) But, Northern Voice has become, or has always been, one of those events that help me form my own thinking, and helps to connect that with the awesome stuff that the really great minds (that I am lucky enough to be allowed to tag along with) are doing.

Northernvoice 2008 on D'Arcy Norman, PhD

MooseCamp - WordPress and Your Problems Followup

Reflections on Northern Voice 2008