quicktips: Hack WordPress to handle mixed Arabic / English posting

Posting in a multi-lingual blog is hard enough if you are swapping between French and English, but swapping from Arabic to English also involves swapping the order in which the characters appear on screen.
This post gives a neat solution to this problem which can probably be hacked to handle a number of other cases where […]

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Themes: comedy iphone wordpress theme

Personally I’m totally underwhelmed by the Apple iPhone. Yeah, it looks pretty. Yeah, it’s really shiny. Yeah, it marks you as a grade A geek. All of which is great. But that thing is HUGE.
Anyway - this theme gives you all of the cool styling goodness of the iPhone on your WordPress blog. What could […]

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Interview: Scot at meridiancrest.com

Young blogs can be interesting as they chase a look, a content balance and a purpose. I’ve been impressed with meridiancrest.com on both a content front and a style front as Scot has covered everything from his technorati mission to break into 5 figures to an interview with the guy behind wootagent.
The focus of our […]

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Experiments: Video minisite

Inspired by my previous post on video in WordPress, this post on TechCrunch made me wonder how much WordPress video coverage might be out there waiting to be gathered together.
Magnify.net should provide a quick and easy way to find out, try out, and publish the results all in one step.
The registration process was very quick, […]

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Plugins: Video for WordPress, vidavee

vidavee has released a new plugin aiming to make life easy for the WordPress blogger looking to feature video. It seems to be aimed very much at managing your own video, rather than a youtube / revver approach of linking to other peoples videos.
I asked Anthony Umann of vidavee a few questions about the plugin […]

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Themes: Digital pop

A new theme from Andrew at Desperate Curiosity, Digital Pop floats my boat as a magazine style presentation platform. Very customisable, with ideal spots to highlight your bigger articles.

Continuing the trend towards themes with plugin bundles:
 ”It comes complete with editable header graphics and is Google Adsense ready. It supports the following plugins:
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Some WordPress podcasts

I travel by train, a lot, so podcasts can be a lifesaver (or at least, a sanity saver). I’ve tended to bypass the WordPress podcast at wp-community.org, favouring lighter material. This, I think, has been a mistake - I’ve just listened through the latest episode, and found it a mix of interesting, entertaining and frustrating. […]

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