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An Article Assignment System For Blog Networks April 28, 2006

One of things I really enjoyed about being a print publisher was actually meeting the writers that were contributing to my magazine. The cameraderie was in itself worth the effort of travelling from city to city - for me, within a 2 hr drive. Another thing I enjoyed was being able to sketch out a list of topics that I wanted to see covered over a a specific duration of time. And because I had met my writers, it was easier to assign story ideas to particular writers or contributing editors. I could tell whether they’d really be interested in …

CSS Image Display - Tweaking Your WordPress Theme Pt 2 April 13, 2006

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The title of this post is a bit of a misnomer, as we’re not really tweaking a WordPress theme, per se. The effect we want to achieve is to display an image with a blog post, and have the text flow around part of the perimeter of the image. This effect is actually very easy to achieve using what’s called inline CSS. We insert a style attribute into our <img src="" /> tag to indicate how we want to position an image. A second attribute is used to specify a margin.

Let’s start by having a first image float to the …

CSS Paragraph Display - Tweaking Your WordPress Theme Pt 1 April 12, 2006

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If you’re not happy with the WordPress theme that you currently have, there are a lot of great themes summarized over at BloggingPro. They don’t create the themes; they just point to some nice ones. There are also generic designs over at OSWD, which are also free. The drawback with the latter is that you will have to do some coding to import them into WordPress (or whatever).

I’ve downloaded a lot of nice themes, all of which I tweak slightly before using. Tweaking the design a bit makes it a touch more unique. The beauty of most WordPress …

Determining The Author Of The Current Post

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This post is the precursor to the post I’ve promised that shows how you can tweak your WordPress blog platform to share Google AdSense or Chitika (or what have you). Instead of writing a single, long, complicated post, I thought I’d split the instructions up into two posts. This post shows you how to determine the author of a specific blog entry. If you are going to test the code, you’ll need to create a couple of test users on your WordPress blog, then post at least one entry each.

While researching the WordPress documentation, I was surprised to find that …