Browsing articles tagged with " Blogging"

What Is Open Source Support Worth To You?

Apr 26, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Blog, Featured  //  2 Comments

Free Beer Tomorrow Neon SignThe notion of “free” in FOSS – Free and Open Source Software – is commonly explained a “Free as in free speech, not as in free beer”. In practice, open source software is often provided literally for free – as I do with my plugins – and this is often referred to as “It’s free as in ‘free speech’, and as in ‘free beer'”. Read more >>

WPMU is out, Virtual Multiblog is in

Apr 23, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Featured, WordPress  //  9 Comments

MultiverseAlea iacta est. The dice has been cast. I’m giving up on WPMU. Definitely. I will be using Virtual Multiblog instead. Definitely.

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WPMU Blues

Apr 19, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Featured, WordPress  //  6 Comments

Noche de luna llena - Full moon nightAfter a couple of days (or hours, effectively) of experimenting with WordPress MU, the insights I gained about it are sobering at best. Here is my preliminary summary about WPMU.

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Big Changes To Hackadelic.com Ahead

Apr 16, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   WordPress  //  2 Comments

Cosmic HandI plan on doing some fundamental changes to my site. Most importantly, I’ll switch away from WordPress… [A moment of unbearable silence drills though the audience, a moment that seems to extend to eternity… Will he stop developing those great WordPress plugins? Do we have to abstain from his fabulous, though sometimes unconventional, even weird insights he shared with us on WordPress?]

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DIY InfoBoxes – Simple And Consistent

Apr 14, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Featured, WordPress  //  1 Comment

wrong direction?Sometimes you want a message or paragraph in your blog to stand out. Here’s a simple method how to do that easily and consistently throughout your blog.

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Table Of Contents In The Sidebar

Apr 12, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Featured, WordPress  //  19 Comments

table of contentHackadelic TOC Boxes work in the sidebar as well. Out of the box. You can see a live demo on my blog by going to a post’s single view: The TOC box appears at the top of the left sidebar.1 This post here is a good example.

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  1. At least it’s at the top at time of this writing. I may move it in the future to another place, or remove it all together. []

How To Couple a TOC Box to an Image

Apr 8, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   WordPress  //  9 Comments

fortuneTOC boxes are designed to be freely positioned in posts using a short code.

Recently, I’ve been approached with a request for instructions on an interesting use-case: Positioning a TOC box together with an image.

Here’s how I’d do it.
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Simple DIY Tab-Style Navigation Tutorial

Mar 30, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Featured, WordPress  //  11 Comments

Treasure mapThis post discusses the possibilities to easily implement a tab-style navigation bar, like the one found on the plugin pages at wordpress.org. It’s a very basic tutorial most suitable for beginners. Folks experienced in HTML and CSS will find little new here.

In cases when it is used regularly, a tab bar would be implemented by a plugin. But when it’s usage is more an exception than a rule, it may make no sense to descend into hacking. Some really simple HTML and CSS will perfectly do.

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On Presidential Pedestals And Crazy Controversies

Mar 25, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Blog  //  1 Comment

OBAMA and Chief Seattle´s LetterOnce upon a time, I wrote an article called “Obama’s SEO Counterstrike“. It was written out of a twofold motivation: Mr. Obama’s (then-current) high-quality speeches, his rhetorical skills, and his extraordinary expressive power, which stood in strong contrast to the average, highly uninspired language frequently found on the Internet – a phenomenon I dislike, and which I see worsened by the seemingly omnipresent SEO madness.

The article remained unnoticed for a long time (Sigh! Why oh why nobody seems to share, or care about, my personal opinions? ;-)), or at least without any feedback. Until recently. Read more >>

The Rise Of A New Spam Generation?

Mar 25, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Blog  //  2 Comments

Secrets of the Floating WorldI just went through my spam queue (as I had a couple of false positives lately), and I was very surprise to discover a comment in it that escapes the usual spam schema. Instead of the usual rubbish with little to no sense at all, this one could actually make sense, at least on some websites.

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