wordpress power tips by lorelle vanfossen
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Presented by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/ for WordCamp Whistler on WordPress Power Tips. Includes tips on WordPress features, power blogging, speed blogging, Firefox Greasemonkey Scripts, NoteTab Pro, and how to blog better and more efficiently with WordPress.TRANSCRIPT
Lorelle VanFossenLorelle on WordPress
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/WordPress Power Tips
Blogging Tips: What
Bloggers Won’t Tell
You About
BloggingBy Lorelle
VanFossen
Help Matt Mullenweg Achieve Help Matt Mullenweg Achieve His New Year’s GoalsHis New Year’s Goals It’s WordPress not Wordpress Use the trademarked, official
WordPress logo
Push the Turbo ButtonPush the Turbo ButtonIn WordPress 2.7, Works with Google Gears to speed up WordPress Administration Panels
Future Posts - TimestampFuture Posts - Timestamp
Write many posts releasedover time.Let your blog work for you while you are off doing other things.
Old WordPress Versions Old WordPress Versions – Future Posts– Future Posts
Post Article Series over time.
Work as a Weekend Blogger, writing on weekends with posts that publish all week.
Firefox Web BrowserFirefox Web BrowserSpell CheckWebmaster Tools for DesignersPowerful Extensions & Add-onsGreasemonkey ScriptsTabs
FireFox Web BrowserFireFox Web BrowserUse two tabs per blog.Allows WordPress Theme view of post
before publishing.Copy post ID number from
Administration Panels
Paste in Post ID number with ?p=#### to see post preview in your
WordPress Theme
Probloggers Use HTML EditorProbloggers Use HTML Editor
Why Use the HTML EditorWhy Use the HTML Editor Fix poorly formed HTML Total control over content formatting
You do not need to use paragraph tags Pasted content cleans easily
Faster Blogging Downsides
Need to learn basic HTML No WYSIWYG preview Switching between HTML and Visual
“cleans” your HTML
Turn off Visual EditorTurn off Visual Editor
WordPress Press-It & WordPress Press-It & QuickPressQuickPressQuick posting to your blog.Built-in feature of WordPress.QuickPress found on the
Dashboard PanelPress-It on Tools Panel
Click and drag to your browser toolbar.
Press-It Press-It BookmarkletBookmarklet
NoteTab ProNoteTab ProCreate a Paste Board FileUse Firefox Copy Extensions
CoLT - Copy Link and TextAutoCopy FireFox ExtensionGoogle Reader Preview Enhanc
ed Greasemonkey Script (GPE)
CoLT and AutoCopyCoLT and AutoCopyFireFox ExtensionsFireFox Extensions
CoLT Adds a Copy HTML Link to Right Click Menu.
Copying the link pastes it into the NoteTab Paste Board.
AutoCopy copies anything you select with your mouse.
Can keep copying. Edit later.
Google Reader Preview Google Reader Preview Enhanced Greasemonkey Enhanced Greasemonkey Script (GPE)Script (GPE)Allows viewing of the web page
within Google Feed ReaderBypasses Feedburner to get real
linksGoogle Reader Preview Enhanced Greasemonkey Script (GPE)
For moreFirefox GreasemonkeyScripts
seeUserscripts.org
Speed BloggingSpeed Blogging
1. Copy post title link.2. Select text to blockquote within
the original post.3. Go to next article of interest.4. When done, switch to NoteTab.5. Edit the Paste Board copied
content.6. Paste it into your WordPress blog
post.
NoteTab ProNoteTab ProAutoCorrect – Spelling and
AbbreviationsWordPress Support Forums – wpsfWeblog Tools Collection – wtc
HTML TagsCapitalizationLine SortingTabbed DocumentsScripts and Macros
Firefox Greasemonkey ScriptsFirefox Greasemonkey ScriptsBenefits versus WordPress PluginsWork with any WordPress blog.Works with WordPress.com blogs.Requires no interaction with
databases or servers. Less load on the blog site.Like Javascript Bookmarklets.Creative freedom.
Finding WordPress PluginsFinding WordPress Plugins
WordPress Plugin DirectoryWP-Plugins DatabaseWeblog Tools CollectionBlog Herald WordPress NewsWordPress PodcastsWordPress Fan Blogs
Lorelle on WordPress Blog Herald Weblog Tools Collection Planet WordPress WordPress Codex WordPress Planet from Ozh WordPress Podcast Jeffro2pt0's WordPress Weekly Podcast Blogger and Podcaster Magazine WordCast Podcast
WordPress NewsWordPress News
What are your What are your WordPress Tips?WordPress Tips?
Twitter Daily WordPress TipsTwitter Daily WordPress PluginsTwitter: lorelleonwp
Popular WordPress PluginsPopular WordPress Plugins Subscribe to
Comments Buy Me a Coffee –
Buy Me a Beer Global Translator by
Nothing2Hide Liz Strauss
Comment Counter by PlanetOzh
WordPress.com Blog Stats
Woopra
PodPress Viper Video Tags All-in-One Video Pack WP-Submission for
writing projects WP-Download
Manager Gamerz WP-Polls or
PollDaddy Super Cache
WordPress Plugin Gravatars
What are your What are your favorite favorite WordPress WordPress Plugins?Plugins?
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