Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

All About wordpress

Obligatory post explaining the redesign of this site

March 7, 2007 – 10:27 pm

For those of you keeping score at home, this is the sixth different design I’ve used, if we start keeping track back at Blogspot in 2005.

I covet your WordPress 2.1

January 25, 2007 – 8:53 pm

So WordPress 2.1 is out, and it comes with some great new features, but if you’re like me, and you run a few outdated plugins and have hacked up your templates based more on instinct than actual coding knowledge, things might not go quite as planned.
I’m not paranoid, I’m just not going to continue hacking [...]

New feature: View all comments by a reader

January 9, 2007 – 9:58 pm

Just turned on this WordPress plugin and I like it. Find a post with comments, then look for the “View all posts by so-and-so” link.
Inspired by Jonathan Snook.
[UPDATE: Months later, this post is getting traffic from a Related Posts link right now, so I'll point out that I turned this plugin off pretty quickly, [...]

Ten WordPress plugins that make this look easy

September 24, 2006 – 10:06 pm

In honor of Daniel’s Blogger break-up, here are 10 WordPress plugins I use and recommend:

Ultimate Tag Warrior: Does a lot more than build that ugly/hot/buzzwordy tag cloud over on the right, it gives search engines a leg up on knowing what you’re writing about, which makes it easier for people to find you. [...]

Job: Develop WordPress blogs for the New York Times

September 20, 2006 – 9:41 pm

[Ed. note: I normally stuff interesting job postings into the del.icio.us feed that runs down the right rail of this blog, or in your feed reader, but this one is too interesting not to point to from here.]
The New York Times is hiring a WordPress developer.
The job is posted on the PaidContent new media list, [...]