How to add custom sites to I Love Social Bookmarking

On a recent comment on the I Love Social Bookmarking plugin page, I was asked by shegs of GamersBeyond how to add a custom site to ILSB. Well, as luck would have it, it’s actually really easy so I will walk through the stages here.

Ingredients

A social bookmarking site - there are [...]

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I Love Social Bookmarking version 0.3 released

If there is one thing that is more desperately needed than a new post on miLienzo.com, it is an update to the I Love Social Bookmarking plugin. Two birds. One stone!

Since its release ILSB has had a few minor niggles related to certain themes’ CSS and which sometimes caused display problems and browser discrepancies - [...]

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New WordPress social bookmarking plugin released

Today I am proud to reveal to the fruits of my last few weekends’ labour: my first ever WordPress plugin!

I Love Social Bookmarking is a simple WordPress plugin that allows your readers to submit your content to social media services via a clutter-free drop-down list of attractive icons.

For a demo of the plugin, just look [...]

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I Love Social Bookmarking plugin

I Love Social Bookmarking is a simple WordPress plugin that allows your readers to submit your content to social media services via a clutter-free drop-down list of attractive icons.

What are social media services?

If you’ve not heard of social media sites such as Digg or del.icio.us you should get to know them. They allow Internet users [...]

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How has your WordPress 2.3 experience been?

I’m under no illusions that any miLienzo.com readers spend all day every day with their eyes firmly fixed on their computer screens reading these very pages. But if you did happen across this site at the weekend you may have noticed about 30 minutes of downtime whilst I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.

For the most part [...]

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Trials and tribulations of using WordPress to display code syntax

Have you ever tried to display HTML, PHP or JavaScript code as part of a WordPress article? It’s not fun is it? Yet there are a few steps we can take to make code render exactly how we want it to.

First of all we need to understand what WordPress is doing wrong and why it [...]

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Do trackbacks mixed with comments annoy blog readers?

Over on Devlounge there is an excellent list of 15 design decisions that annoy readers. The article is written by Ronald Huereca and is based on informal feedback received at his personal blog the Reader Appreciation Project.

The 15 annoyances are:

Pop-ups (link hovers)
Turning off the timestamp on posts
Pop-up windows
Snap preview pop-ups
Positioning the subscribe box above the [...]

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Clean up your CSS with Firefox plugin

Have you ever inherited someone else’s website and not had a clue what half the CSS selectors are doing? Or tried to rehash someone else’s WordPress theme but been afraid to remove any of the CSS selectors in case you break something?

Fortunately the kind chaps at Sitepoint have developed a nifty Firefox extension called Dust-Me [...]

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Moving the furniture around

You may have noticed a few design tweaks going on around here, namely how comments are being presented. I’ve tweaked the design of comments and allowed space for including the MyAvatars plugin, so I can see your faces and marvel at how beautiful we designers are.

In addition I’ve added the AJAX Edit Comments [...]

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How to display a maintenance page whilst upgrading WordPress

It’s that time again where WordPress users across the globe shut down all their systems, cross every finger they’ve got, and do the dreaded upgrade.

It’s a horrible process that involves disabling all plugins, backing things up and uploading the new files. Then you gradually switch things back on, realise that something is not working, curse [...]

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