Posts Tagged ‘Plugins’

Upgrade successful!

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

This time I followed the directions to delete (almost) all the WordPress files on the server before uploading the new versions. That seems to work much better than overwriting them.

So far I haven’t seen any errors (though the database upgrade page was filled with errors, it also said it was successful at the end). Here’s to nothing cropping up moving forward.

And it even looks like I might be able to keep my theme. Still haven’t messed with the sidebars yet. That’s next.

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Upgrading broke half my stuff!

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Argh.

Well, I finally upgraded WordPress to 2.3.3. I’d been putting it off because I was afraid it would break things. It ended up being worse than I thought.

I’m still finding errors in the upgrade itself! I had to pull old versions of files just to get it complete the upgrade procedure. Who knows what I’m going to find when I finally get through all this.

Most of the plugins I use actually work fine. That’s nice. The one exception is the polls, which I just have to upgrade, but holy cow, that one’s a pain in the neck to upgrade. From the instructions, it looks harder than upgrading WP itself.

And the biggest disappointment…. my theme, Tiga, died. It was already having problems with the previous upgrade but I was able to get past that issue. This time, it’s too much for me to figure out. Seems to be a sidebar widget problem, mostly, but that’s beyond me. It’s a shame, ’cause I really like this theme. Guess I gotta go out on a search. If anyone has suggestions for a nice 3 column theme, I’m all ears. (If I get the polls working, maybe I’ll put up a poll on it… ).

Anyway… lots of transition around here for the foreseeable future. Don’t be surprised if things break, get fixed, go away, come back, and just look plain different.

[Update: HA! At least three hours invested in this so far, and I finally got to the point where I had to restore my previous version. Too much was broken. I couldn't even edit posts. Cut my losses and run. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow night.]

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CoolPlayer - WordPress media plugin

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

[UPDATE: as you can see below, I'm having some problems with CoolPlayer - like it doesn't work anymore. I've switched to the Anarchy player.]

As you can see from the previous post, I’m trying out a new plugin to embed video in WordPress (the software running this blog). There are some good players out there, but I’ve found that CoolPlayer does the job nicely for me, with a total minimum of effort - and that’s what I’m really after.

I’ve had trouble using the YouTube provided “embed” code previously, because WordPress mangles the OBJECT code it uses. This simple plugin lets me avoid that issue. It also handles more than just video - it plays audio, too - and it allows me to use both on-site and off-site files. Multiple file formats are supported. It’s really a nice little app.

Here are some examples of using it:

Off-site video (YouTube):

[coolplayer width="480" height="380" autoplay="0" loop="0" charset="utf-8" download="1" mediatype=""]
Google Docs in Plain English
[/coolplayer]

On-site audio (mp3) - the little blue arrows aren’t part of the player, they’re from another player technology I have installed here:

[coolplayer width="100" height="100" autoplay="0" loop="0" charset="utf-8" download="1" mediatype=""]
Pop-pop not talking
[/coolplayer]

Honestly, I don’t think I like it as much for audio, but it works.

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Multimedia Plugins for WordPress

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Video, Music, Podcasts, Audio, and Multimedia WordPress Plugins « Lorelle on WordPress

This is a great annotated list of plug-ins for WordPress users trying to add video or audio of any sort to their blog. I wish she would have put this list out months ago - it would have saved me quite a bit of time and effort.

Now I have to go through all those options and see how I can best use them.

Thanks, Lorelle, for the compilation (and the link to my previous post on the subject)!

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Adding Technorati Tags to posts

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

SimpleTags - A WordPress Plugin for Technorati Tags

Found a plug-in for WordPress that makes it dead easy to create Technorati tags. Easy enough that I may actually do it! And those of you who know how lazy I am, will truly appreciate the gravity of that statement.

SimpleTags is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries. There are several plugins already available for this purpose, but they all require you to use custom fields within WordPress. The SimpleTags plugin eliminates this need, so you can now easily generate tags with your preferred method of posting, be it by email, a blogging tool like w.bloggar or from WordPress itself.

I’m not really sure why I should do it, but if it’s this easy, why not? Besides, not understanding has never stopped me from doing things before…

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