Common Sense: So Seldom Common
November 15th, 2008
Adrian Diaconescu has created a list of “8 common sense tips for writing clean WordPress blog posts”. If you haven’t read it, I suggest heading on over and having a look. Even if you don’t normally use WordPress, he shares some things that you might still find helpful if you ever have to publish content online.
http://rubiqube.com/8-common-sense-tips-for-writing-clean-wordpress-blog-posts/
Though some of it was kind of obvious to me, the other parts were really helpful. I’m planning to begin some more intensive training of IRPA staff once the stable version of WordPress 2.7 is released, and I get the feeling this article will find its way into the training.
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Nice article, thanks for pointing it out. Have you managed to convince Rose that they should wholesale switch to WP for content management yet? One of my biggest clients uses WP (an older version, unfortunately, but lobbying for an upgrade) to manage their huge, huge site. 1M+ pageviews/month.
What have you found are the most useful WP plugins you’ve used for the RHIT site? You should do a post on it.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Hey thanks for the comment! While I’d love to see Rose do a wholesale switch, it’ll probably be a while before it’s really a possibility. One big issue I’ve been running into lately is the fact that content pasted out of MS Word into WordPress looses most of its formatting. My solution is not to use MS Word to create the pages, but to create them directly in TinyMCE. Unfortunately, this requires people to learn to use a new tool, which may be difficult to get people to accept at an institute level.
I’m currently running a plugin I wrote for the contacts in the sidebar. That used to be hard coded into the template, but I created a widget to replace it so that it could be updated without editing any code. I’ve also got an analytics plugin running as well as “My-Page-Order” to allow drag and drop page ordering (though I don’t really care for the way it does this, and I hope to create an improved replacement at some point). I’m also testing some navigation plugins and a page specific custom widget plugin I’ve been working on, but those aren’t running on the main site currently.
Thanks for the post suggestion. That could be fun! I think maybe I’ll contrast the plugins I’m using on my site versus the ones I’ve installed on the IRPA site.