Ryan Sholin » plugins http://ryansholin.com The future of news. And more. No funny stuff. Thu, 24 May 2012 18:54:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 2006-2007 ryansholin@gmail.com (Ryan Sholin) ryansholin@gmail.com (Ryan Sholin) http://www.ryansholin.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com 144 144 Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education. Ryan Sholin Ryan Sholin ryansholin@gmail.com no no Useful list of WordPress plugins for publishers http://ryansholin.com/2011/04/13/useful-list-of-wordpress-plugins-for-publishers/ http://ryansholin.com/2011/04/13/useful-list-of-wordpress-plugins-for-publishers/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:10:25 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/?p=7942 Useful list of WordPress plugins for publishers: Plugins for publishers, April 2011 edition

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2011/02/28/a-wordpress-plugin-to-help-readers-correct-your-errors/feed/ 0 Reintroducing Newstangle, or How I learned to stop worrying and love my blog http://ryansholin.com/2011/01/15/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-my-blog/ http://ryansholin.com/2011/01/15/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-my-blog/#comments Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:49:18 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/?p=7678 Let’s skip the usual rambling, expository introduction and get to the lists:

  1. Delicious is dying. Or it isn’t. Or it is. Depends on who you ask, I suppose.
  2. I like saving and tagging and sharing links. You may have noticed I worked for a company that made some tools to do that sort of thing.
  3. I’m having a hard time trusting any of the also-ran social bookmarking sites with my data.
  4. For a long time now, I’ve had intentions to implement some form of WordPress “Asides” on my blog, to use in conjunction with the “Press This” bookmarklet for light linkblogging.

The desired outcome:

  1. A handsome little way to display Asides on my blog. For the sake of this discussion, let’s just call all the “Asides” posts something like “Newstangle.”
  2. All of my Delicious links, minus some outdated stuff, imported to WordPress as posts with their tags intact.
  3. Some light repair and merging of tags.
  4. A page displaying all my Newstangle posts and tags in some sort of useful, browsable way.
  5. Perhaps a search box just for the Newstangle content.
  6. To send out automatic-ish tweets when I post a Newstangle link that lead to the link in question, and not my blog post about it.
  7. To point Newstangle.com at the Newstangle links over here.

So far: I’m done with steps 1, 2, 3, and 7. Halfway done with 4, really.

Not bad for an over-coffee-and-breakfast project, right?

Ingredients:

  • AsideShop for a pretty easy way to implement a version of Asides without messing around with templates. I’m a sucker for any plugin that lets me use tokens like %post_permalink% with my own markup, rather than getting too deep into PHP copy/paste missions.
  • The particular Delicious to WordPress Importer I used was an updated version of this one, and predated this other one, which even comes with a handy theme to make it more like Delicious. Your mileage will definitely vary.
  • Batch Cat to help clean up some of the damage I did importing more than 2,500 links to my default post category, which I actually use.
  • Tag Managing Thing, an oldie-but-a-goodie plugin for editing, merging, and deleting post tags.
  • And when I get around to adding some interesting tag listing ont he Newstangle category page, I might use some variation of the cool back-of-the-book index-style Archives template that came with my new Basic Maths theme.

It remains to be seen, of course, if I can stick with it, posting short links and notes on a regular basis, mixing in longer posts — perhaps about something other than this blog at some point — more frequently than I have of late.

Now then. What’s all this I hear about Flickr?

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2011/01/14/want-to-import-your-old-delicious-bookmarks-to-wordpress-as-posts/feed/ 0 WordPress › JSON API « WordPress Plugins http://ryansholin.com/2010/10/25/wordpress-%e2%80%ba-json-api-%c2%ab-wordpress-plugins/ http://ryansholin.com/2010/10/25/wordpress-%e2%80%ba-json-api-%c2%ab-wordpress-plugins/#comments Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:57:36 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2010/10/25/wordpress-%e2%80%ba-json-api-%c2%ab-wordpress-plugins/ It’s a plugin that turns your WP content into a JSON API, making it easy to integrate it in other places, instead of turning other places into WP themes.

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2010/10/25/wordpress-%e2%80%ba-json-api-%c2%ab-wordpress-plugins/feed/ 0 WordPress Plugin: Post Revision Display http://ryansholin.com/2010/08/11/wordpress-plugin-post-revision-display/ http://ryansholin.com/2010/08/11/wordpress-plugin-post-revision-display/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:20:18 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2010/08/11/wordpress-plugin-post-revision-display/ Thanks to Scott Rosenberg’s functional requirements, a public-facing “revisions” list for WordPress. A good step toward transparency and easier corrections, at least for news orgs using WP.

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2010/08/11/wordpress-plugin-post-revision-display/feed/ 0 Comment on paragraphs – WordPress Plugin by andydickinson.net http://ryansholin.com/2009/08/11/comment-on-paragraphs-%e2%80%93-wordpress-plugin-by-andydickinson-net/ http://ryansholin.com/2009/08/11/comment-on-paragraphs-%e2%80%93-wordpress-plugin-by-andydickinson-net/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:18:57 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2009/08/11/comment-on-paragraphs-%e2%80%93-wordpress-plugin-by-andydickinson-net/ Andy’s built a nice first draft of a NewsMixer/DjangoBook-like comments-on-paragraphs as a WordPress plugin.

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2009/08/11/comment-on-paragraphs-%e2%80%93-wordpress-plugin-by-andydickinson-net/feed/ 0 BackType Connect Plugin for WordPress — BackType http://ryansholin.com/2009/06/09/backtype-connect-plugin-for-wordpress-%e2%80%94-backtype/ http://ryansholin.com/2009/06/09/backtype-connect-plugin-for-wordpress-%e2%80%94-backtype/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:38:52 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2009/06/09/backtype-connect-plugin-for-wordpress-%e2%80%94-backtype/ Want to import Tweets, FriendFeed posts, Diggs, etc. that link to your post as comments in WordPress? Done.

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