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JP.com goes mobile, and Tweets!

Friday, March 26th, 2010

OK, so either one of those things should really be considered new and exciting, but seeing as how I am a little behind the times these day, I’ll make believe they are!  I just installed two pretty cool plug-ins from Brave New Code.  The first is WPtouch, a WordPress plug in that converts your site into an iPhone or iTouch friendly version, and in the process loads it MUCH faster.  I like it so far, the only thing is that it doesn’t seem to handle content management system (CMS) sites very well, the only way I could get it to work was to set my blog as the first and only page.  This could very well be due to my theme though, so I can’t completely blame the plug-in.  I am guessing it’s going to work just as well on the iPad since it’s pretty much the same thing but bigger.

The next plug-in is WordTwit.  I’ll admit I’m not much of a twitterer…but this plug-in might change all that.  It’ll take any posts you make and automatically Tweet them out to your thousands of adorning fans…or in my case, all three (yes this includes my Mom).

Both were very easy to set up and come with a bunch of behind the scenes option and settings!

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Importing your Blogger posts to your Wordpress blog!

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

Wow, I didn’t even know you could do this!  I had a blog on Blogger and just imported all of my posts to my new Wordpress blog using the importer built into Wordpress, it literally took about 30 seconds.  Here’s the instructions and a link to the page since you can use this on a number of other blogs as well.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content

Users of WordPress 2.2 and above can import from Blogger. Earlier versions cannot import from Blogger because “New Blogger” was released by Google, invalidating all the old importers. Only WordPress 2.2 and later has support for “New Blogger”.

If you haven’t already, you must be using New Blogger and a Google Account on Blogger. If you are still using Old Blogger, the importer will not work.

Starting the importer

WordPress 2.7

In the left-side navigation, click Tools to expand the submenu. Next, scroll down if necessary and click Import to show the various import options. Next, click Blogger and follow the directions.

WordPress 2.2 to 2.6.5

Go to Manage → Import → Blogger and follow the directions.

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Amazing work!

Friday, October 10th, 2008


From the Boston Globes, “Big Picture” blog comes a set of photographs from photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. If you visit the site now they’ve cut the image from 38 down to ten, but thanks to Google cache you can see the original 38 here. What’s also cool is that you can click on “map” in the text below the image and it will bring you to Google maps! Don’t forget to turn on “Satellite” and under “More” you can also try turning on Wikipedia and Photos.

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