User:Ilya/OpenWetWare/Blogging
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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
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
- 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
- README.txt
- Forums
- Pages in Category:WPMU:
Logins
- Login and signup links
- Support - tags - signup
- disable signup - search result from mu.wordpress.org
- disable "create a new blog" - has a plug-in that disables signups without modifying core files
- Disallow registration (only the admins can create blogs for the users)
- search for "disable signup" turns up much relevance
- delete or rename the wp-signup.php file or put in a die(); right at the beginning. The only other way new blogs would then be created is via the form at the bottom of the Dashboard -> Site Admin -> Blogs page
- Moderating Blog Signups
- You can use the 'wpmu_activate_blog' action to deactivate a newly created blog. Look at line 1131 of wpmu-functions.php. I'd set the deleted field in wp_blogs for the new blog to '1', filter the welcome message using the 'update_welcome_email', and/or edit it through the site admin options page to inform the user that they're blog must be moderated. You'll have to build a page to moderate new signups too, but that shouldn't be too hard. It should of course send a welcome email to the new blog owner
- Restricting registration - by IP and by monitoring the site-wide feed
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- From site admin panel we can restrict registration to the users who have emails in certain domains. Use regexp in wpmu-functions.php to provide wildcard.
- 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
- Wordpress OpenID plugin - was not designed with WPMU in mind, though future revisions may address this
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>
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:
- 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
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