Tag: WORDPRESSPLUGINS

The recent shutdown and reopening of URL-shrinking service Tr.im drew a lot of attention to one of the most troubling questions about short URL sites: when one of them shuts down, what happens to the links? To avoid worrying about what a URL shortener might do with your links, you might want to scope out la petite url, a Wordpress plugin for creating tiny links using your own domain name. La ...

Back before the days of FriendFeed, it was pretty common to see people post things like, "Just wrote a new blog post. What do you think?" to Twitter. That's a good way of getting your link out there, but if anybody actually wanted to answer your question, they'd probably do it in the comments, not in Twitter. Chirrup is a way of tweeting back at someone and commenting at the same time. A neat ...

WordPress has a pretty big fan club and an enormous installed base. When an upgrade to one of the world's most popular blogging packages is released, there are an awful lot of long evenings for cutting-edge, version-monkeys and, a whole lot of finger-crossing as bloggers become weekend web admins, flipping the switch on a fresh upgrade and hoping for the best. Lorelle on Wordpress has taken the ...