Jotting down stuffs
Misc
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Apr 27th
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Migrating to own domain, Part 3
Feb 12th
Done:
- Breadcrumbs. Hacked the theme to put in Yoast Breadcrumbs at the top of posts and pages.
- Function for sharing. Hacked the theme to put in AddToAny button in the footer part of posts.
- Snap Shots. Implemented Snap Shots™ Plugin for Wordpress.org into the blog, enabled only for external links.
- Creative Commons notice for my source codes. Used Creative Commons Configurator to put in Creative Commons notice at the end of each post. I actually intended only to mark my posts which include source codes, but it seems there’s no per-post settings for it, so all posts it is.
- Sitemap page. Installed the Dagon Design Sitemap Generator plugin for the sitemap page.
To do:
- OpenID login for comments. I tried a couple of plugins related to OpenId, but they didn’t actually work as I imagined, so I deactivated them at the moment. In my mind, I would like to have the functionality that will allow users to login using their OpenId-compatible accounts, such as GMail, or Facebook, or Tweeter etc. Then the avatar in the comments will use the one that they use as their profile picture. Something like that.
- Subscribe to comments. Already installed the Subcribe to Comments plugin, but have not completed the integration into the current theme yet.
Migrating to own domain, Part 2
Jan 29th
It’s Saturday morning, and I’m back at setting up the blog.
- Looking for new themes to try out. The previous theme I set for few days: Inanis Glass, based on Windows Vista layout looked geeky. Nothing wrong with that but the theme felt “heavy” to load.
- Trying out the Mystique theme. Looks fine. Felt lighter. But how do I set the Twitter widget to show mine instead of Wordpress’s? Can’t seem to find in the settings. Tried to drag the widget to the sidebar, but then the original sidebar layout disappears. Will look at it later. Update Jan 31, 2010: See Fixing the Mystique theme Twitter issue.
- Learnt about Wordpress’s shortcodes from the Mystique theme’s blog. I see. So it is shortcodes I’m looking for to make the sourcecode tags appear like it was in WordPress.com.
- Looking for a SyntaxHighlighter sourcecode shortcode as seen on WordPress.com. The shortcode API seemed to already be there since WordPress 2.5. Now it is already 2.9. There should already be existing plugins implementing the sourcecode shortcode. Better search first before reinventing the wheel unnecessarily. Searched. Found: SyntaxHighlighter Evolved. Nice!
- Looking for an external link handler. What I want is some sort of plugin that will allow me to handle external links differently, like displaying an icon next to that link, sort of like that. Found: External Link.
Migrating to own domain
Jan 24th
Somehow I can’t bring myself to use shamsulamry.wordpress.com that long. Simply cannot. Bought ShamsulAmry.com, will be taking a bit time to setup this one.
And I noticed the syntax highlighting stuff is not working anymore and there’s no existing syntax highlighting plug-in that could make it just work like before. So it will be either I need to edit the existing posts, or challenge myself to learn how to write my first WordPress plug-in that would make it simply work like before. 
