The Personal Site of Dan Masters

Category: WordPress Plug-ins

  • How to Embed houzz.com Articles & Ideabooks in Self-Hosted WordPress Posts & Pages

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    Whew! That is a long title. I felt that I needed to get all those words in there because this issue put me in a pickle this morning. So how do you embed Articles and Ideabooks from houzz.com in you self-hosted WordPress site? Unfortunately WordPress does not allow you to…

  • Nailing Down Slow Performance in WordPress

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    Going over the reasons why WordPress may be running slow. Includes checking your plugins, setting up caching, and looking at your web host.

  • Still Trying to Troubleshoot FeedWordPress Issues

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    Dan

    Unfortunately the last few updates to the FeedWordPress plugin have not fixed the issues that I have been having. What is going on is that the meta data is not being pulled in to the individual posts when automatically searching for feeds and therefore it is not linking back to…

  • Why I Really Like WordPress 2.8

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    Dan

    I have been slowly updating the sites that run WordPress over the last week or so and have started to really love WordPress 2.8. The reason for this sudden burst of affection are a couple of new features that version 2.8 introduced. The first feature that I really like is…

  • FeedWordPress – One Step Closer to Fixing My Problem

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    Dan

    So I posted the issue that I am having about the automatic update not pulling in the meta data for each post over on the official FeedWordPress site. I haven’t received a reply yet but in all fairness it is a free plugin so I would not necessarily expect to…

  • FeedWordPress Problems – It’s Got to Be Me, Not You

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    Dan

    I have been using the plugin FeedWordPress for quite a while now to aggregate all of the feeds for all on my sites together into a single feed. From there I take that feed and then repost it back on each site. This way I get some cool cross-pollination between…

  • Fixing FeedWordPress PermaLinks to the Original Website

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    With the recent upgrade of the syndication plug-in FeedWordPress that I use on my network.idano.net syndication site the links on the articles were no longer linking back to the original website. A few people had noted this issue on the comments thread but no one provided any solutions. Because the…

  • Making Links in Posts from iPhone in WordPress

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    Dan

    In my last post I was complaining about not being able to add links to posts from my iPhone. I was thinking about it again this morning (among the other limitations of the iPhone) when I remembered “hey, I know HTML”. Yes, that is right, I can hand code the…

  • Mobile Admin Plugin for WordPress is Awsome

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    Dan

    It finally happened. Someone came out with a plugin so that you can comfortably blog from your iPhone. Jared Bangs and Dan Cameron put the work in and now I can finally blog from anywhere. With the plugin I can assign categories, manage comments and a whole bunch of other…