User:Ilya/OpenWetWare/Blogging

• Blogs discussion on OWW
• Multi user blog tools - overall ratings and reviews
• Movable Type is used by MIT

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

Antispam

• Bad behavior: kills 99% of all spam on contact
• Spam Karma: kills the other 1%

WordPress MU

• Homepage
• WordPress MultiUser Trac
• Upgrading recent versions
• Shares 99% of codebase with Wordpress
• README.txt
• Forums
• Pages in Category:WPMU:

Plugins, Widgets, SVN Repository

• WP MU plugins
• WordPress MU Plugins

Logins

• Support - tags - signup
  • Adding WP to an existing site

  Wordpress' important user functions and such are in the wp-includes/pluggable.php file and have been designed to be overridable; a plugin could replace those functions and implement its own user login and authentication scheme.

  • Non-Public Sign-up

  Best bet would be to use the Limit the email registrations feature at Dashboard -> Site Admin -> options and set it to only your companies email domain; remove the all of the links to the signup page as well even getting rid of the signup file

  • MU for multisite install

  put a redirect in the top of wp-signup that redirects them to a "custom" form on your site that mimics the signup process; then, create a blog in the back end (or add a user) if you want to "approve" it

• 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

Wikia

Wiki to blog extension

Notes

• science blog feeds (from 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