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10 More Tips To Improve Your WordPress Theme

Posted by tom.altman on December 2nd, 2009
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I think 4 & 5 are some really good points:

4. Don’t use custom fields unnecessarily – so many themes have relied on this to put more of the pressure on the author.  I think theme authors should be looking at ways to improve and simplify the workflow when possible.

5. Custom write fields! – yes, yes and yes.  I think 2010 will see many plugins and themes take advantage of custom write fields and templates.

10 More Tips To Improve Your WordPress Theme

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WordPress › Wiki Append

Posted by tom.altman on June 1st, 2009

WordPress › Wiki Append « WordPress Plugins.

hmmmmmm?

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WordPress Wednesday – Scheduled Backup

Posted by tom.altman on March 25th, 2009

Scheduled Backup Of Your WordPress Blog.

After spending time looking for a new host for tomaltman.com, this is a must.  After I get the host up and stuff…I’m putting this on a priority list.  Then I must figure out how to auto-move that over to Amazon’s S3.

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WP: Magazine PDF

Posted by tom.altman on February 11th, 2009

WordPress › Magazine « WordPress Plugins.

A plugin which will make a PDF of your site…interesting.

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WP: Flexible Lightbox

Posted by tom.altman on February 11th, 2009

WordPress › Flexible Lightbox « WordPress Plugins.

This is a great little ditty for standardizing the display of photos.

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Video Stitching & Stabilized Video Collage

Posted by tom.altman on June 24th, 2008
Filmmaker Spike Lee shoots on his video camera during batting practice prior to game one of the American League Division Series between the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers on October 3, 2006 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx Borough of New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Spike Lee

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It all started with a tweet from a guy in Utah.  He said he had cracked up be cause his mother had emailed him after watch his lawn cam – capturing some landscaping.

Anyway – his blog post was a bout the concept of video stitching:

I saw this amazing Stabilized Video Collage this morning while reading … this is really impressive.  You have to see it to really appreciate what is being done.

Link to Flickr video – thanks for the help Wordpress.

The author has used a program called Motion (in FinalCut on the Mac) to stitch two videos together to make one.  Not only is it obscenely cool, it makes the video enjoyable to watch.  It appears you can stitch video from many different sources and multiple camera together to build a killer panoramic vid.

Very cool.

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More cool blog tools

Posted by tom.altman on April 9th, 2008
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I’ve been raving about some blog tools here and also Nick Peters & I over at Wediaup – but here is another example called Skribit.  (I found it in my feeds from Social Media Today.)  The quote is from the SMT post:

As Paul envisioned it – “It’s where you go for tomorrow’s news or a Techmeme for tomorrow.”

It is similar to the blog add-on called Zemanta.  But Skribit is more of a forecasting tool.  It would be cool if someone had more info on Skribit usage – anyone?

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A good blog example

Posted by tom.altman on March 21st, 2008

My buddy Jason sent me a link to Sean Blanda’s blog today, there is a really good post on it today talking about his college newspaper and how they are using Wordpress to publish their online edition – but what I really wanted to talk about was Sean’s blog itself.

This guy has a really great blog.

Number 1 – He’s customized the design. And wow, what a great design. Nothing too fancy, but nice. I love the post it note.

Number 2 – He’s starting conversations. It’s not about posting – but engaging.

Number 3 - He’s putting up fresh content. Talking about how to run an online paper with Wordpress is cool.

Keep an eye on this guy and his blog…it should be an interesting conversation to enjoy.

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12 types of value from an external, corporate blog

Posted by tom.altman on January 21st, 2008

I enjoy reading and advocate the use of corporate blogs – here is a post I ran across at Social Media Today that speaks to that subject:

Blogging outside of the firewall has some measurable numbers for determining ROI. However, it also offers noticeable value that doesn’t always translate to numbers. The following is a list of the kinds of value blogging offers a business and how that value can be determined.

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How did you get the caucus results?

Posted by tom.altman on January 4th, 2008

More than likely, from “old media” like TV or newspaper.  But there was a surprising number of “new media” ways to get some of that information.

Mediashift posted a great article yesterday about this called “Iowa Caucuses Blanketed by Twitter, Blogs, Video”

That’s the hard lesson learned by veteran GOP political strategist Ed Rollins, who was repeatedly flummoxed in a Fox News interview with Chris Wallace, who hectored him about a conversation he had that was transcribed and sent to a TownHall.com blog by the one other person in the restaurant.

It still gets hard to leverage all of these items when the rubber hits the road – good stuff!

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