I‘m trying-out the UMapper Plugin on the Glacier National Park post today, but I’m not sure if I’m going to keep using it, or not. It’s always a coin-toss on whether a new plugin will break your Blog’s validation and, sure enough, I’ve now got 31 XHTML 1.0 Transitional errors – grrrrrrrr.
Tom Mangan on Starting Your Own Blog
John Muir's letters, essays and books are still widely read today
Tom Mangan wrote a couple of good posts yesterday on his Bay Area Hiking Blog, Two-Heel Drive, about starting your own blog. Tom says that documenting your hiking experience and sharing it with the rest of the world is a great way to connect with other interested hikers.
Heck, if John Muir were alive to day, he would have a blog. How do I know? Because the only thing as voluminous as Muir’s backcountry travels was the volume of his writings documenting them.
Get your WordPress Blog to Validate
Getting your WordPress Blog to validate can be a challenge
If you look at the bottom of CampingBlogger you will see the boilerplate copywrite information followed by a couple of weird links; XHTML 1.0 and CSS Level 2.1. These links go to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) who sets standards and guidelines on how to code Web pages and offers a free validation service that can check any Web page for meeting W3C standards.
10 Must-Have Plugins for your WordPress Blog
10 Must-Have Plugins for WordPress
In the first post of this series I talked about the importance of the Thesis Theme, in setting up CampingBlogger. In this post, I will highlight the ten most important plugins that I used in setting up the Blog. Out of the box, if software were to actually come in a box anymore, WordPress is a robust and capable content management (CM) system that provides you with 90% of the functionality required to setup your own blog. Where WordPress falls short – that last 10% of the solution – is primarily in the user interface, where user is a potential reader of your blog. One of the reasons I switched from Movable Type to a WordPress based CM systems is the abundant amount of third-party tools, called plugins, which extend and enhance the WordPress user interface. With that in mind, and in alphabetical order, here are the ten most important plugins that I used in setting up CampingBlogger.
Creating a WordPress Blog
Not pictured: coffee mug
Changing my Blog from Movable Type to WordPress was both frustrating and enjoyable. In the coming weeks, I’ll share some of my experiences in setting up a new Blog and working with WordPress.