We stumbled across “Host Like Toast,”  an Irish firm which specializes in WordPress hosting for small groups, individuals, single-celled organisms, but not, presumably, world-devouring alien armies or multinational conglomerates.  Their own home page runs the Thesis Theme, and among other things on their blog, they’ve got a tutorial on How-to: Easily create a child-theme for WordPress (using Thesis Theme as an example)

They’ve also released a WP/Twitter plugin whose exact function escapes me, but Twitter and social-media-literate persons may wish to check it out. WordPress Twitter Bootstrap CSS. Plus a proprietary backup system – WorpDrive WordPress Backup.  The name alone suggests mad scientists – benevolent, to be sure, but mad nonetheless.

So if you’re shopping for WordPress hosting – I’m not going to end this sentence in a rhyme – check these guys out.

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Thesography displays EXIF data for images uploaded with WordPress. It utilises WordPress’ own feature of storing EXIF fields in the database, and also enables import of latitude and longitude EXIF to the database upon image upload.Thesography was originally meant for use with the Thesis theme from DIYthemes, thus the name, but I decided to make it useful for all WordPress themes.I’ve been using EXIF display on my photoblog for some time. I’ve also written a couple of posts about EXIF with WordPress; Geo EXIF data in WordPress and Add image EXIF metadata to WordPress. Some people expressed a desire to see this functionality in a plugin without modifying WordPress files: this is it.The purpose of this plugin is to make dislaying EXIF data as convenient as possible, while using as much of WordPress’ native image handling as possible — for convenience, forward compatability and because WP image handling has come a long way in recent years.

via Thesography: an EXIF data WordPress plugin — kristarella.com.

Add image EXIF metadata to WordPress — kristarella.com – Add image EXIF metadata to WordPress 3 April 2009 · 10 comments · tagged with Geek, Tutorials, WordPress In December I wrote about adding EXIF fields for geo locations to the image features already in WordPress. The first part of that post involved making changes to the WordPress file controlling image handling. They were simple changes, but annoying to have to change with every WP upgrade.

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The 40 best WordPress plugins, ever   By category:

Backup / Optimize

SEO / Traffic

Social

Core Functionality

Photos / Galleries

E-Commerce

From the very useful people at MakeUseOf.

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Greg Rickaby, a man of many talents, does customization work, among other things, on several WordPress theme frameworks. You can learn about the Genesis Framework on his blog, for example, as well as the Thesis theme. And his own site, GregRickaby.com, is running the very cool eleven40 child themeon the Genesis framework.

eleven40 Theme for Genesis Framework

It therefore occurred to me that it might be useful to have, within our blogroll, recommended WordPress wizards who have experience with particular frameworks. Sometimes a WP theme framework takes you 90% of the way – but the last 10% isn’t part of what the framework designer has placed in the control panel and needs a bit of CSS tweakin. If you’re certain about what you want, using a commercial framework and going the last bit with a designer is still much cheaper than starting from scratch, and only a bit more expensive than purchasing the framework. (One of my current frustrations is making the new “post formats” theme work the way I envision it working, although Imy  guess is that, within a release or two, framework designers will be more caught up on the post-formats feature).

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Company Name Generator is both helpful and fun. Put in any two words, and it will generate a number of variations, substitutions, and check, via GoDaddy, if the variations are available for domain registration on .com, .org, .net, and .info. The two-name limit is actually useful, I think, particularly by keeping one’s naming process tightly focused at the start – which might prevent missing an obvious and useful name variations.

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As I wrestle with each WordPress problem, I’ve increasingly found myself at CatsWhoCode,  the creation of Jean-Baptiste Jung, who is also responsible for WPRecipes.com.  You can also see his portfolio here. In the meantime, if you’re trying solve the mysteries of the WP Sidebar, check out 8 excellent resources to enhance your WordPress sidebar.  Why did I say 80, and not 8? Because the eighth item is a link to another post with 73 tips about the about the WP sidebar.

The cats who preside over our house certainly like to interact with the keyboard, but they walk back and forth, they lie down, but they never seem to close tags or care about the user experience.  They scoff at SEO. I guess Jean-Baptiste has better-trained cats.

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I’ve been using all manner of apps – from OneNote, to NotePad (and various substitutes), to index cards, to keep track of passwords, logins, and bits of code that I use all the  time. SpeckyBoy – a site which is a cornucopia of resources for novices and serious coders and everyone in between – has 10 Free Desktop Applications for Managing Your Code Snippets.

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Slocum Design Studio, and a member of their design team, Jonathan Desrosiers, have developed Evernote Site Memory, which allows users to clip a blog post to Evernote in, by my count, two mouse clicks and without having to navigate away from the post. And it may prompt some readers to clip who, in their excitement about the post and shouts of “Eureka!” forget to note the URL. (If you’re getting that excited about posts on this blog, you probably need more R&R).

Slocum’s portfolio is outstanding, and it’s clear that they exploit each other’s talents to good effect. A look at the staff portraits makes the point well: each of them is outstanding, and is the visual anchor for each staff member’s “About” page. In fact, it makes a strong case for engaging a team, whether it’s an established full-time team, or an ad hoc team assembled for a project, for even relatively simple projects. The simplest statement of the principle is that no one should proofread or edit their own copy in any text that matters.

My installation of the WordPress plugin was entirely snag-free [plugin page on WordPress repository]; what’s more, the people at Slocum took the time to provide a clear and detailed entry in the WP Plugin Repository. NB: if you install via the WordPress dashboard, there are several other similar-sounding plugins, with similar descriptions of functionality. I tested Mr. Desrosier’s plugin first because it was featured prominently on the Evernote website. What you’re looking for is “WP Evernote Site Memory,” with a credit in the description field for Slocum and Mr. Desrosier.

Other developers have produced Site Memory functionality for Joomla and Tumblr, and Evernote also provides information for developers; it’s all readily navigable on the Evernote Site Memory page.

One other Evernote plugin for WordPress, EverPress, is essentially the opposite of WP Evernote Site Memory.

EverPress is an automatic RSS posting plugin primarily designed to integrate with the information capturing service, Evernote. This plugin allows Evernote users to automatic post their shared notebooks to WordPress. [EverPress also supports]post scheduling – by day, week or month, and time of day; [and]post settings – set the author, category, status (draft, public and private) and tags.

EverPress is the creation of Martin Hawksey; we hope to have tested and reviewed it in short order.

Originally posted on Discovery Strategist.

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Even with a good connection, with an excellent  connection, when composing a WordPress post, it’s easy to trip over your own edits when backspace/delete, insert, cp,,pm functions whic hap0pen instantaneously on a local machine can tqake a while while waiting for the edit happe.on the remote server and refreshes in the New/Edit post windows in WordPress. If you’re like me, which is to say immature and impatient, you’re editing a page which doesn’t even reflect current data. It’s easy, then, to be deleting data which has already been deleted on the server, but which is still visible  on your client machine. This creates a frustrating queue of commands which require – in user terms  - a long wait to resolve while you’re ready to compose the next phrase.

Hence – an offline editor makes sense. How that works with one’s theme and layout – a slightly more complicated question.  But at least one can get copy formatted for insertion into the WP Post Editor more quickly offline.

Word processors – MS Word, OpenOffice, of course can save files as html.  But a dedicated offline blogging tool might be easier to fine-tune for a particular blog theme. In the course of looking, I found this outstanding post  5 Best Offline WordPress Editor For Your Blog.

And – under the heading of finding treasure while searching for everyday tools, I found the post on EdwardKhoo.com. This is an outstanding blog – lots of helpful how-to posts about irritating problems not otherwise widely addressed.

The blog itself is an outstanding implementation of Darren Hoyt’s Mimbo Theme, available on ProThemeDesign, where one can find the work not only of Darren Hoyt, but also of the brilliant Ben Gillbanks. Check out their new theme ByLine.

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