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Plugin: Flickr Photo Album For WordPress

July 24th, 2010 | View Comments

I finally found a new (and almost excellent) working plugin to integrate your Flickr photos and albums into your WordPress blog (see my photos page): Flickr Photo Album For WordPress: tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/ After giving up on other plugins like Slickr Gallery or Falbum, this one seems to work quite nicely (after adjusting the template, that is, which took quite some time). Unfortunately, there are still at least two three issues: In the title bar, every child page to my photos page shows a “404 File Not Found” error, although the page is being displayed correctly. It works well with the main “/photos/” link, since I have created a page with that name. I know this issue is a known bug, but has anyone found a solution to this, yet? Private photos … Read entire article »

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Disqus And Broken Anchors

July 10th, 2010 | View Comments

If you have the feeling that the anchors to the comments and to the comment form are broken since you installed the Disqus Comment System plugin for WordPress, you might want to read along… maybe you’d also be interested in other posts about Disqus. When displaying how many comments a post has, WordPress determines the link to the comment section in two ways. If there is a comment, the anchor will be “#comments” (id=”comments”), if there are none, the anchor will be “#respond”, which leads directly to the comment form (“Leave A Reply”). People who are interested in viewing the WordPress source code should look at the function comments_popup_link(), defined in wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 946ff (WordPress 3.0). The decision wether to use “#respond” or “#comments” is made on line 974ff. … Read entire article »

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How To Add Ping-/Trackbacks When Using Disqus

July 9th, 2010 | View Comments

As I mentioned in this post, ping-/trackbacks are not yet supported by Disqus when using the plugin for WordPress. When you export the comments from WordPress, ping-/trackbacks are simply not imported into the Disqus database, yet (they promised that they are working on it). In the meantime, I managed to add this feature by using the ping-/trackbacks that are stored within the WordPress comments table (mostly, this will be wp_comments). This is what it looks like (see the original post): How it’s done: I wrote a function named DisplayPingTrackbacks() which achieves the goal. In the single.php, I simply put it before comments_template() is called by WordPress, which – in my case – looks like this: <?php DisplayPingTrackbacks(); ?> <div id="comments"> <?php comments_template(); ?> </div> Here is what the function looks … Read entire article »

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Auto-Embedded Videos And RSS Feeds

July 6th, 2010 | View Comments

Sometimes, embedded videos are not shown in an rss feed. Therefore, I managed to adapt the Kimili Flash Embed plugin so that it shows a small note above the video in an rss feed, reading: There should be an embedded flash video visible below. If it does not show in your feed reader, please visit the original post to view it. Since WordPress 2.9, you can now use the auto-embed feature, which makes it much easier to embed videos. It was a little harder to reach the same goal here, but I finally managed: here’s a little plugin that uses the embed_oembed_html-filter to add a small note above the video if a feed is being displayed. Download the plugin “WP-AddVideoEmbedNote” (v1.0)! Let me know what you think. You can also … Read entire article »

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