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Social Media Bookmarks June 5th, 2009

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Some really good posts and information for Social Media and Wordpress integration

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VideoEmbedder Plugin For Wordpress

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Have you ever tried to embed a video in Wordpress and have the embed code get mangled or not render at all. That’s been a problem for me lately. That’s until I found VideoEmbedder Plugin for Wordpress. Video Embedder allows you to specify the video id enclosed by the tags for the video and you can embed a video in a web page.

You can see the list of video types in the Video Embedder Settings. Over 20 Types including the most popular like YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, BlipTV, Viddler, etc.

Video Embedder for Wordpress

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Fix for Popularity Contest Plug-In for WordPress 2.5

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When I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 I had to disable that plug-in. Stewart Mader posted the fix for using Alex King’s Popularity Contest with WordPress 2.5. Thanks to Stewart it’s back up and running.

In the WordPress admin area, choose Plugins, then scroll down to Popularity Contest, and click Edit. Scroll down until you see this bit of code:

if (!isset($wpdb)) {
require('../../wp-blog-header.php');
akpc_init();
}

Remove one of the ../ from:

require('../../wp-blog-header.php');

Also, Popularity Contest is what powers my Top Posts widget on the right hand side of the blog. Thanks to Dean Sykes at Tech Teapot for authoring that handy little widget.

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WordPress 2.5 Review

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Wordpress LogoI have been blogging for many years. During that time I have used many other platforms including hosted software from BlogCity. TypePad, and Blogger. I also used Moveable Type briefly and a highly customized version of Joomla! (before that MamboCMS). Last fall I switched to WordPress as my primary blog platform. Though I haven’t been bowled over by WordPress I have come to the conclusion that it is the best blogging platform for me because it’s easy-to-use, has the widest variety of features, extensible, and it’s open source (with a thriving community of developers– over 90 developers were credited with contributing to this release).

Yesterday the long awaited and somewhat delayed WordPress 2.5 was released. Today, I updated my installation today and though I had a few problems the upgrade to the new version was definitely worth it.

Read the full story

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WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek

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WordPress 2.5 will be out soon. The version include a customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries,one-click plug-in upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, fulltext feeds, and faster load times. See the sneak peak on the WordPress Blog.

 [link via Scott Beale on Twitter

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Mark R. HinkleHello, my name is Mark Hinkle and I am technology enthusiast and executive for Zenoss Inc. the maker of the open source monitoring software, Zenoss Core. This is my personal blog and does not reflect the opinions of my employer. I am also on the advisory boards for open source collaboration software maker, MindTouch and SourceForge, the world's largest repository of open source software.  If you want to find out more you can read my bio

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