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How to efficiently find help on this blog

Searching Full-text search: quick, even though dumb (“Computers are only machines…”). It may not return the most relevant results. Human-curated search: The author adds metadata to his posts as he sees...

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How to search this blog: Combining searching for tags and categories with...

By adapting this mask in the address-bar: http://plagwitz.wordpress.com/tag/YOUR-1ST-TAG+YOUR-2ND-TAG+…+YOUR-NTH-TAG/feed/?category_name=YOUR-1ST-CATEGORY+YOUR-2ND-CATEGORY+…+YOUR-NTH-CATEGORY you can...

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Download WordPress blog post overview into Excel table

See what I mean: Downloading and browsing the full content XML is of course more powerful than this.Filed under: blog, documentation, Screencasts, service-is-documenting Tagged: MS-Excel, wordpress.com

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Is there a better way to do complex and/or multi-category searches against a...

I am looking for posts on my blog that fall under the categories “English” (ESL teaching) and (“listening” OR “speaking-4-skills” – never mind the “-4-skills”, another oddity – you can change the slug...

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How to workaround SkyDrive embed codes not working WordPress.com

Problem: I cannot seem to get the new embed code that SkyDrive offers now to work on wordpress.com....

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Design options for the departmental WordPress-based website using Widgets and...

For layout design: Go to http://[yo r site’s URL here]/wp-admin, e.g. http://lrc.unc.edu/wp-admin, and log in (you need site admin privileges , like I have for the LRC site). In the left-hand menu,...

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A little landmark

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Call it “blog”, “CMS” or whatever, as long as your WordPress site visitor...

I have been asked by a colleague about the “hits” in the upper right on my website. They are the number of visits I had(not counting myself, at least not when I am logged in – like many  “bloggers”, I...

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Change onedrive to skydrive to embed your MS-Office online files in WordPress

A while ago, Microsoft was successfully sued by Sky to change the name of SkyDrive. Recently MS did that, but it looks like somebody has not gotten the memo yet, again: Originally suggested embed code...

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How to work around flat flush-left nested lists in Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer (2012), in WYSIWYG  mode under the “edit” tab, conveniently interprets “tab” keys, when issued within an <ol>/<ul>, as, i.e. converts them into nested lists. However,...

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Beep – beep – boop?! Cannot get classic mode to stick for editing my existing...

Looks like I can get classic mode to stick by clicking on “classic mode” in the upper right of edit mode, for creating new posts. Looks like I cannot for editing existing posts – what gives? Best...

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Windows Live Spaces url forwarding still working

It is a long time ago that I migrated my blog from Windows Live Spaces to WordPress. It appeared to me recently that the URL forwarding from the original web pages to WordPress which was part of the...

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How to efficiently find help on this blog

Searching Full-text search: quick, even though dumb (“Computers are only machines…”). It may not return the most relevant results. Human-curated search: The author adds metadata to his posts as he sees...

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How to search this blog: Combining searching for tags and categories with...

By adapting this mask in the address-bar: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/tag/YOUR-1ST-TAG+YOUR-2ND-TAG+…+YOUR-NTH-TAG/feed/?category_name=YOUR-1ST-CATEGORY+YOUR-2ND-CATEGORY+…+YOUR-NTH-CATEGORY you can...

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Download WordPress blog post overview into Excel table

See what I mean: Downloading and browsing the full content XML is of course more powerful than this.Filed under: blog, documentation, Screencasts, service-is-documenting Tagged: MS-Excel, wordpress

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Is there a better way to do complex and/or multi-category searches against a...

I am looking for posts on my blog that fall under the categories “English” (ESL teaching) and (“listening” OR “speaking-4-skills” – never mind the “-4-skills”, another oddity – you can change the slug...

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How to workaround SkyDrive embed codes not working WordPress.com

Problem: I cannot seem to get the new embed code that SkyDrive offers now to work on wordpress.com....

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Design options for the departmental WordPress-based website using Widgets and...

For layout design: Go to http://[yo r site’s URL here]/wp-admin, e.g. http://lrc.unc.edu/wp-admin, and log in (you need site admin privileges , like I have for the LRC site). In the left-hand menu,...

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A little landmark

Filed under: blog, Personal

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Call it “blog”, “CMS” or whatever, as long as your WordPress site visitor...

I have been asked by a colleague about the “hits” in the upper right on my website. They are the number of visits I had(not counting myself, at least not when I am logged in – like many  “bloggers”, I...

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