If you’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and still don’t like the way the admin panel looks then you have an alternative that was recently released. Leopard Admin by Teddy Hwang is a beautiful alternative to the new admin theme. I’m currently using it on another site of mine and I prefer it because of the simplicity of the layout and the well designed interface.
With the emergence of DIGG in 2004, many different social bookmarking sites have popped up over the past couple of years; Reddit, StumbleUpon, Float to name a few. There’s even an open-source application called Pligg that you can download and install on your server for your own customized version of “Digg.” There’s no doubt that if your content shows up on the front page of one of these sites you’ll receive a ton of hits. One could argue that your ability to make the front page of Digg can make or break the success of your site. Many a server has gone down due to the overload in visitors from social bookmarking sites (a.k.a. “Digg effect”).
There are a couple of ways in fact. The first and most obvious way would be to create a Digg account and submit every single blog post that you create, but logging into Digg every time and entering every piece of information can be a bit cumbersome. What you really want to do is add a Digg badge to your posts. What badges do is submit your blog post to the social bookmarking site of your choice and auto fills the forms, thus taking care of half the work. Aside from any content/description tweaks that you may have to do, after submitting with a badge, all you have to do is click “Submit” and you’re finished.
As a lot of you may know by now, Flickr has just released its new video service. Available to PRO members, Flickr users can now post videos that stay within the 90 second/150mb limit. While 90 seconds may not seem a lot for the YouTubers and Viddlers out there, it’s perfect for those who like to submit short vlogs. Also, Flickr provides some great video resizing options for embedded videos, helpful for making those large videos fit into the divs of your WP layout.
Reports say that Flickr video posts work seamlessly with Wordpress’ WYSIWYG editor, unlike YouTube embeds which require either a plug-in or strict use of the HTML editor.
If you haven’t already heard about the news, follow the Flickr Blog post to learn more: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/04/09/video-on-flickr-2/
You can also follow the Flickr Video FAQ here: http://www.flickr.com/help/video/
With the popularity of Twitter ever increasing, the thought of integrating it into your Wordpress blog should be a no brainer. What started as simple “status-updates,” Twitter has turned into a form of “micro-blogging.” Ever experience a time where you had a thought in your head, felt that it needed to be heard, but wasn’t compelling enough to be a full-on blog post? “Tweet” it!