Archive for the 'WordPress' Category
This question came to me courtesy of my profile on Formspring:
“Which CMS platform do you most often recommend people build their sites on?”
To which I replied:
“Hello! I’m a bad, bad Formspring user. Just noticed this question now. Aren’t I supposed to be notified whenever there’s a new question?
If one were to think of WordPress as a CMS, then I’d say that WordPress it is THE content management system that I mostly recommend.
I was once involved in a project that ran on another CMS called ExpressEngine. It was very challenging to make any modifications without hiring some expert – and pricey – professional help. Maybe others have had better luck with it, but that incident definitely left me with a sour taste in my mouth about Express Engine.”
Is there a CMS that YOU prefer?
So here I am, playing with Google Wave. I’m still getting the hang of it, but it seems to open a lot of possibilities.
One of the most attractive features is the ability to incorporate a Wave into a blog. Of course, this will be even better once more people get access to Wave.
I’ve found it very easy to do so by, first, installing the Wavr WordPress plugin. Then, you will need to enter a code, akin to wave id=”yourwaveid here” into the post where you’d like the Wave to be integrated. This is the only part where I had a bit of hiccup, but the solution is simple:
- Login to Google Wave using your username.
- Select a Wave, then look at the address bar in your browser. You’ll probably find something that starts with
https://wave.google.com/wave/?….
To identify your wave id, just locate everything that includes and follows the exclamation mark, minus the period and the number towards the end of the line.
You will also need to replace %252B with +. In this example, we’d end up with: googlewave.com!w+XXXXXX.
Then, embed the wave id code as per the instructions provided by Wavr.
Once the embedding is done, whoever has access to Google Wave will probably see one ugly green rectangle in the blog post. As it turns out, those colours can be reset through the plugin’s settings in your WordPress admin panel.
Don’t give me credit for these instructions. This can all be found on Wavr’s installation and FAQ pages.
Have fun! And here’s the final product…
Note: if you don’t have yet access to Google Wave, you will not see anything newsworthy.
Right after typing the above title, I remembered that, today, my friends of the Jewish faith celebrate Rosh Hashanah. So it’s probably very fitting that the title would be in Yiddish.
From Flickr, via 106fm Jerusalem. I hope that's what it says!
After four calls to GoDaddy and a few hours toasting with this hot (literally) laptop on my thighs, I have succeeded in migrating my humble Wordpress.com blog to this new home… onlinestrategy.ca. Don’t ask me how I was able to get this domain name to begin with. The stars were aligned. Or I had good karma at that point. Or it was meant to be.
At any rate, it’s done. There’s still a lot of work ahead – but that’s at least some progress.
By why “Oy Vey”, do you ask? Because it was an arduous process, at least for me! The first person I spoke with at GoDaddy intended to be informative, but what he told me was inaccurate (I was told that it was simply a question of importing content from WordPress into onlinestrategy.ca). Of course, that would have meant that the couple of links or so that I have going to onlinestrategy.wordpress.com would not be permalinked to onlinestrategy.ca. Not good. Hey, I know a couple of links may not be much, but one of them is from hummingbird604.com, from a blog post I wrote for Raul. You bet that I’ll try to maintain that link!
After that, I proceeded to make a search on Google for “redirect wordpress.com to domain”. And somehow I ended up finding this slightly outdated, but save-the-day kind of gem: a PDF by the folks at Blog-Well.com. It contains instructions on how to get redirect a Wordpress.com blog to a new domain, in terms that I could understand. And even a few screenshots, for good measure.
I will try and publish a post with an updated version of the instructions provided by Blog-Well.com. It will probably save your from having to call technical support at GoDaddy.
Thank you, Blog-Well.com. Merci beaucoup. Muito Obrigada. Todah Raba. You guys made me one happy girl. Like I said in one of my tweets – it’s an insignificant step for mankind – but a GIANT leap for me.
