User:Ilya/OpenWetWare/Blogging

Miscellaneous

• OWW blogs admin interface
• Blogs discussion on OpenWetWare
• Multi user blog tools - overall ratings and reviews
• Movable Type is used by MIT
• Writing a Blog Disclaimer

Biology blogs

Eye On DNA

Wordpress

• Installation
• Extensions
• Blog Design and Layout
• Roles and Capabilities
• Function Reference
• WP hooks list
• Mediawiki - Wordpress integration - authenticates MW users against WP login databse, based on bbPress Auth for MediaWiki, requires PHP4 and MW 1.6.9 (latest MW version that uses PHP4)
• MediaWiki, bbPress and WordPress integration
• brief tutorial on how to integrate WordPress and MediaWiki
• WordPress on SWiK

Antispam

• Wordpress Comment Plugins: Building A Fortress To Defend Against Spam!
  • Bad Behavior: Your First Line of Defense (The Moat)
  • Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam: The 2nd Line of Defense (The Gate and Outer Wall)
  • AKISMET: The Final Defense (The Keep)
• From a Slashdot comment:
  • Bad behavior: kills 99% of all spam on contact
    • Installing and Using Bad Behavior on WordPress
  • Spam Karma: kills the other 1% (false positives)

WordPress MU

• Homepage
• WordPress MultiUser Trac - home for the bug database and the SVN for the WordPress MultiUser project, a collection of assistance files and FAQs for your WPMu install
• Upgrading WPMU
  • version 1.3: all the functions previously found in wp-content/mu-plugins/ have been moved into wp-includes/wpmu-functions.php
• README.txt
• Forums
• Pages in Category:WPMU:

Plugins, Widgets, SVN Repository

• WP MU plugins
• WordPress MU Plugins
• WordPress Russia

Logins

• Login and signup links
• Signup restrictions - this functionality is built-in starting from version 1.3
  • set Allow new registrations to Disabled in Site Admin -> Options
  • in wp-signup.php: replace or comment out the line _e( "Registration has been disabled." ); with the line _e( "<strong>If you would like to get a blog and you are already a user of the <a href='http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page'>OpenWetWare wiki</a>, please send email to admin at openwetware org.</strong>" );
• WPMU captcha registration
• Sign up Splogs Stopper Plugin request
• Signup Anti Spam plugin blocks the user from sign-up if his IP address blacklisted in spamhaus.org
• OpenID
  • Wordpress OpenID plugin - was not designed with WPMU in mind, though future revisions may address this
    • the biggest problem is in the code that creates/updates/deletes tables - OpenID client
    • reported to be working fine with WPMU
  • OpenID Provider for WordPress MU - server
  • OpenID Comments for WP - implements both server and client

Avatars

• New feature on Wordpress.com: avatars available since 2006
• WPMU Avatar widget users will be able to navigate to their Profile page and upload their own photo. The photo will appear next to their comments across your WPMU site, and, if they use my Author Profile Enhanced widget, in their sidebar next to their “About Me” text (demo)
  • based on Profile Pics plugin
  • The "can't upload" issue:
    • Subdirectory fix, subdomain fix (don't work?)
    • Upload form fix (for IE7 only?) open up wp-admin/profiles.php, find the form line about 15 lines down and change it to this: <form name="profile" id="your-profile" action="profile-update.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
• Post Avatar allows choosing from a predetermined set of images
• Gravatar allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options; it also shows LiveJournal userpics in comments
• Localized comment avatar allows readers to specify a name, e-mail address and/or URL that they will always use when commenting, and to upload and assign an image to this combination of specified values
• Sexy Comments plugin has avatar support

Themes

• Theme Development
• techdesigns.co.uk 005 v10
• style.css:
  • #topimg: change header picture (header_dkblue.jpg)
  • #header_title: increase the font size to 30px, add ITC Franklin Gothic Book to the font list, change change padding-top from 155px to 70px and remove text-transform: uppercase
  • #header_title2: increase the font size to 20px, add ITC Franklin Gothic Book to the font list and remove text-transform: uppercase
  • darker links (a{color:#3178FF; ...}) and text (#bg{color:#333333; ...})
  • darker comments: .comment{color:#555555; ...}
  • darker quote sections inside posts: blockquote p{color:#555555; ...}
• add the following to footer.php:

<a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/Copyright">Creative Commons BY-SA or GNU FDL</a> - <a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:General_disclaimer">Disclaimer</a>

• searchform.php:
  • to enable the blogsearch to search each individual blog instead of the main blog, replace the 1st line as follows:

    <form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">

    <form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>">

Wikia

• Wiki to blog extension
• MediaWiki:Blog_snippet - wiki snippets are exported to a blog

Notes

• science blog feeds (via Jason):

looks like this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/scienceblogs/pharyngula

we might consider setting ours up like that as well. e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/openwetware/shareyourscience would be the name of mine.

• From Jenny: the font I used was ITC Franklin Gothic Book. Jason was wondering about the font being square. Any of the Franklin Gothic fonts will give you the "roundedness" that the theme has that I drafted.
• From http://pineda-krch.com/2007/07/08/hello-world/ via Jason:
  • Subscribe to Comments plugin
  • syntax highlighting for code
• Tagline: Blogging community for bio scientists and engineers
• Scientific blogging plug-ins

EasyPG is a Wordpress plugin adding shortcuts to create correct markup for Postgenomic parsing

• Message during installation:

Warning: reset() [function.reset]: Passed variable is not an array or object in /data/web/root/wordpressmu-1.2.3/wp-content/mu-plugins/pluggable.php on line 30

Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in /data/web/root/wordpressmu-1.2.3/wp-content/mu-plugins/pluggable.php on line 31

Architecture

The / (root) blog is currently unused and serves a placeholder that redirects requests to the dewikified version of the Blogs page on the OpenWetWare wiki.

Front page

• a single front page that lists all the blogs in an easy to read manner; an RSS feed with the latest posts from any of the blogs, etc. (via Jason)
• To customize the front page, edit home.php in the theme folder (e.g., wp-content/themes/home/home.php)
• Since WordPress 2.1, there’s an option in the Reading options panel that lets you select a static page as the front page (wpmu => admin menu => options => reading)
• Creating a Static Front Page (reported to be working with MU)
  • Building a true home page into your wordpress blog - currently using this solution (it only requires adding home.php file to the current theme; however, this doesn't work if internal redirection is enabled in WPMU config - see above)
  • Creating a dynamic home page in wordpress
  • The real ultimate static front page
• Blog of the day

Renaming blogs

• Site Admin -> Blogs -> Edit blog
• make sure that all necessary options are updated (some may be repeated twice on the page): Path, Siteurl, Home, Fileupload Url