Fixer-upper

September 28, 2008 by
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I’m glad the LJ plugin problem is fixed and I can start blogging again, but there are a few WordPress config things I still want to sort out:

  1. find out why the RSS (syndication) isn’t working – I thought was automatically enabled with WP
  2. plugin to auto-post new additions to my Flickr site
  3. add IM info to the Contact page
  4. plugin to auto-echo public posts in my LiveJournal
  5. plugin to auto-echo updates to my Last.FM playlist
  6. replace the default blogroll list with a few useful/important sites, e.g. BBC news, F1, Twitter status …
  7. plugin to auto-echo Facebook updates

Of course the most important part of a blog is the content, so I need to get back into the swing of posting here. I’ve been using Twitter a lot recently so don’t be surprised if some of my blog posts are brief :)

Once I’ve got most things working here, I’ll update our other blogs with the plugins etc.

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6 Comments on Fixer-upper

  1. paul on Sun, 28th Sep 2008 7:48 pm

    2. 1) RSS *is* enabled – there’s just no syndication info with the theme I’m using. If I go back to the Default theme, I can see Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).

  2. paul on Sun, 28th Sep 2008 11:25 pm

    3. 1) copied over the RSS-related line from the Default theme’s footer.php to the same file for the RedStamp theme.

  3. jan on Tue, 30th Sep 2008 9:19 am

    4. With your wishlist, you better check out the “lifestream” plugin for WordPress or one of the themes that has one integrated… (check my site, I just dropped my previous theme for one that has lifestream-integration…)

    Another option is to drop WP and switch to Sweetcron.

  4. paul on Tue, 30th Sep 2008 9:35 am

    5. Thanks Jan – Lifestream looks promising, and your website is similar to what I had in mind, so I’ll try it out today.

  5. paul on Tue, 30th Sep 2008 12:52 pm

    6. Well, the Lifestream plugin was OK but fitting it into my theme was painful, so I’ve swapped to the Agregado theme which handles it all automagically.

    There’s a problem with the Archive (runs out of memory!) and I want to change the colours & background, but other than that it’s working well.

  6. paul on Tue, 30th Sep 2008 12:53 pm

    7. Oh, and I want to change the “Find me elsewhere” box to be chronological rather than grouped … but I can’t find a setting for that.

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