Tag Archive for 'wordpress'

Trackbacking my own comments elsewehere?

Is there any way I can collect trackbacks/pingbacks of comments I made on other blogs?

Or some kind of tool/bookmarklet where I can do the same thing by hand? e.g. I create a post on my blog where I collect all the comments I make - and then have a bookmarklet I open whenever I comment somewhere and send myself this trackback?!

(I guess this could be done with del.icio.us, but it rather feels clumsy - it feels like there should not need to be an intermediary between my comments elsewhere and my blog?!)

WordPress Plugin Request: referrer to trackback

I am not sure if this is possible at all - but would it not be nice to have a (spam safe) way of converting incoming referrer-URLs to trackbacks/pingbacks? So you know when a blog post has been linked to on del.icio.us or so.

Make it talk to SpamKarma and ReferrerKarma, use whitelists for URLs that you would like to have added as linkbacks… something, anything?

Or maybe we can convince Joshua to have del.icio.us post a pingback including a back-link to a page that lists all users and tags the page has been filed under.

And while we are at it: is there such a thing as a trackback/pingback to just the blog and not an individual entry?

Wordpress - Live Comment Preview

Anyone having problems with the Live Comments Plugin for WordPress: There seems to be some lines of code missing in comments.php so that logged in users do not get the live preview.

A workaround can be found at the WordPress Support forums.

Request: Wordpress Plugin for Flickr and

I am looking for a way to integrate flickr and wordpress and so far my google-search has given me the following options:

  1. Flickr Post. This plugin takes one of your own pictures at flickr with a tag that looks similar to your post’s slug. BAD: this pollutes your tag namespace at flickr… and you can only use your own pics.
  2. FlickrRSS; allows you to display a flickr style badge (for a tag, user, user tag or group pool) on your page.
  3. Flickr Tags, seems a bit better as it allows more control, but again, just your own pics or pics for a bunch of tags…
  4. Flickr Insert, a sibling of Flickr Tags, caches thumbnails locally.
  5. Flickr Gallery helps you create your photo gallery on your site using flickr hosting.
  6. Flickr Photos may be much more versatile. It enables you to post flickr pics in multiple sizes via a markdown style syntax - and you can access pics by a flickr ID - hopefully by number.

What I really am looking for is a plugin like wp-amazon that opens an extra window from the posting interface where you can search for pics on flickr and maybe google images - and then insert this pic into your blog post. Anyone care to write a plugin like this? Contact me if there is a beta to test!

Cat2Tag

The WordPress plugin Cat2Tag is in heavy use here at this site. It basically allows you to create categories “on the fly” while posting and combined with WP’s multi-categories per post allows a good tagging system. technorati then also picks up those tags as it translates categories to tags so one doesn’t have to publish additional technorati tags. There is also a click-to-tag thingy like in del.icio.us or flickr.

But.

There are some improvements I would love:

  • In the click-to-tag thingy: clicking on a tag that is already set pops up a message saying so - instead it should remove the tag from the list. (like del.icio.us experimental posting window)
  • There should be an easy way to create a tag list or even a weighted tag list
  • the bookmarklet should be supported! in Safari it does not work at all when clicking on the tags.
  • the plugin should support the pluginmanager

Other than that - can’t wait for the next upgrade ;)