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Remotely Managing WordPress with PHP
Posted on April 8th, 2010 1 commentWordpress is the ubiquitious platform these days although I hope to change this with the inevitable release of Silk CMS in the next month or so. In my line of work, I tend to have to install many, many copies of wordpress all over the place. Wordpress makes a great platform for deploying niche sets especially and comes with hundreds of plugins that make creating these sites dirt simple. Anyone who has managed niche sites can attest that it becomes quite unwieldy to manage hundreds of websites. It helps to standardize on a common infrastructure for all of them (ie, themes, plugins, etc) however each site needs to be slightly customized to a particular niche. Plugin settings need to be tweaked, headers changed, sublines updated, etc. Uploading wordpress to each host and manually unzipping it and re-uploading everything that is non-stock is one way to go about it but it’s tedious and time consuming. If you happen to host on a hosting service that offers fantastico your job is a little easier but not by much.
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Tweet your blog post to multiple twitter accounts
Posted on September 10th, 2009 No commentsI use a plugin called Twitme to broadcast new roz blog posts to my twitter followers in the interest of getting a few extra readers amongst my peers. That’s been working great while posting to my personal twitter account which is only visible to my close circle but when I started my new @realmofzod twitter [...]
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Back from the dead
Posted on March 20th, 2009 No commentsSo late last year I started my other blog over at http://www.unintelligent-design.com, and i’ve been pretty involved in that for some time. As a result, this blog got terribly neglected as I dealt with some poignant albeit non-technical topics such as the presidential elections, some critical pieces on religion and financial crises and whatnot. I [...]
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