So I gave the Battle of the blogs a go over at BlogExplosion. IT was fun. I won some, and lost some. The cool thing was that it definately brought traffic my way. The bad news is that it brought traffic my way. Saturday morning when I logged in, I found 79 comments waiting for moderation. Each and every one was spam. I’ve had comments like that before, but not 79 of them!! It was time for action!

I downloaded and installed Spam Karma 2.0. The install was pretty typical. Unzip the package, and install it in your plugins folder. Then access, and activate it in the plugins screen of the WP manager. I noticed it listed all previous comments that I marked as spam, the date it occurred, and the comment. Honestly, it’s way over my head… but all Iknow is that for now, it works.

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I found a simple plugin for WordPress called Exec Plugin from Priyadi’s Place. It will allow you to add dynamic php to your posts. Download the .txt file. Change the extension to .php and upload it to your wp-content/plugins dir. Use the Word plugin manager to activate it and off you go.

To use php in your posts just use the tags <phpcode> and </phpcode>. Then code away inside of there as if it were your favorite text editor. eg:
[code lang=”php”]

< ?php
$var = ‘hello world’;

print("$var");

if($var){
include("somefile.php" /* or ANY php parsable file extension*/);
}
?>

[/code]

Pretty simple! I used it to include() an index page of links for my hurricane chronicles.

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I added an image utility plugin for Wordpress. It’s called IImage Browser, and can be obtained at skriker’s blog. This thing works great. There is only 2 files to upload. I was up and running with it in a matter of minutes. There’s virtually no setup other than activating it in your plugin panel.

Within the write area of the admin panel, there is a button added for iimage browser.
It pops open a window letting you browse your image dir. Inside of it you can create a directory, upload files, and create thumbs.

Then while browsing you click on the image you want to add. You can add the pic to your entry, add thumbnail with link to main, or just create a link to the picture. Pointy clicky, and very user friendly.

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Today I added a podcast for the blog posts. The talkr service takes your blog entry, and will read it back to you. You can download it and listen to an .mp3 of any blog entry.

Membership was as easy as filling out a form. They give you the html to display their button. They also give you the code you need to add to give the link for the podcast in your template. In my template file. I added the link they gave me, and as they explain to do, add the permalink variable to the querry. In my case with this wordpress template it was the variable in post.php.[code lang=”php”]href=the_linkage_from_talker_< ?php the_permalink(); ?>[/code] 
With this, anybody can listen to your blog!
 

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Today is talk like a pirate day! I got the link for this great wordpress plugin from my friend FransiscoIV’s page blog-a-rama.

Some of the other neat filters included with the plugin are: swedish chef , elmer fudd , jive and more)

In honor of the day - all comments posted here will be translated to pirateness!

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