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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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...
View ArticleDownload 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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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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Problem: I cannot seem to get the new embed code that SkyDrive offers now to work on wordpress.com....
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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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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...
View ArticleChange 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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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,...
View ArticleBeep – 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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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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleDownload 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
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleHow 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....
View ArticleDesign 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,...
View ArticleCall 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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