Echologist.com » Wordpress http://www.echologist.com Making Social Networks Resonate Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:38:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 WordPress-Plugin – Pin, organize & show your favorite places through OpenStreetMap http://www.echologist.com/2012/01/wordpress-plugin-mapsmarker/ http://www.echologist.com/2012/01/wordpress-plugin-mapsmarker/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:10:17 +0000 kasi http://www.echologist.com/?p=79 Continue reading →]]> Mapsmarker is a WordPress plugin by Austrian WordPress Guru Robert Harm.

The WordPress plugin “Leaflet Maps Marker” allows you to pin, organize & show your favorite places through OpenStreetMap on your blog and via different APIs on external websites or apps.

There are plenty of applications which can be built on top of mapsmarker, so certainly an interesting plugin to watch in the future.

via Pin, organize & show your favorite places through OpenStreetMap/WMTS, Google Maps/Earth (KML), GeoJSON or Augmented-Reality browsers » Leaflet Maps Marker WordPress Plugin.

]]> http://www.echologist.com/2012/01/wordpress-plugin-mapsmarker/feed/ 0 How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress – Smashing WordPress http://www.echologist.com/2012/01/how-to-create-custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-smashing-wordpress/ http://www.echologist.com/2012/01/how-to-create-custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-smashing-wordpress/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:52:09 +0000 kasi http://www.echologist.com/?p=77 Continue reading →]]> A recent article How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress – Smashing WordPress is helpful for wordpress theme designers.

It describes how custom taxonomies can be used for specific categories, such as location-based taxonomies. It also explains how to write specificic templates for each taxonomy and which functions are available for these new wordpress features.

The author concludes

Whether hierarchal or multifaceted, a well-implemented taxonomy will simplify the way content is organized and displayed on a website. WordPress has all of the tools you need to create custom taxonomies and to group your content in new and exciting ways.

I agree.

]]> http://www.echologist.com/2012/01/how-to-create-custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-smashing-wordpress/feed/ 0 Jetpack now available for self-hosted websites http://www.echologist.com/2012/01/jetpack-now-available-for-self-hosted-websites/ http://www.echologist.com/2012/01/jetpack-now-available-for-self-hosted-websites/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:59:21 +0000 kasi http://www.echologist.com/?p=45 Apparantly, the WordPress.com feature-package Jetpack is now available for self-hosted blogs as well. I am going to test it on this blog.

]]> http://www.echologist.com/2012/01/jetpack-now-available-for-self-hosted-websites/feed/ 0 Most used WordPress pluings http://www.echologist.com/2010/01/die-10-meistverwendeten-wordpress-plugins/ http://www.echologist.com/2010/01/die-10-meistverwendeten-wordpress-plugins/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:32:06 +0000 kasi http://www.echologist.com/?p=100 Unsurprisingly, the most used plugins are Analytics, Bookmarking- and Adsense – Knowledge, Sharing, Earning.

10 of the most popular (and useful) WordPress plugins | Royal Pingdom.

]]> http://www.echologist.com/2010/01/die-10-meistverwendeten-wordpress-plugins/feed/ 0 Diigo synch with WordPress http://www.echologist.com/2009/12/diigo-synch-with-wordpress/ http://www.echologist.com/2009/12/diigo-synch-with-wordpress/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:53:11 +0000 kasi http://www.echologist.com/?p=28 Continue reading →]]> For a few days I am using Diigo for my bookmarks – quite convenient because I can bookmark sites on my iphone. Now I am looking at ways how to publish certain bookmarks on my blog – and here we go: Diigo offers its own service for that. Nice job!

]]> http://www.echologist.com/2009/12/diigo-synch-with-wordpress/feed/ 0 Twitter-Tool for WordPress http://www.echologist.com/2009/04/twitter-tool-for-wordpress/ http://www.echologist.com/2009/04/twitter-tool-for-wordpress/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:30:57 +0000 kasi http://www.echologist.com/?p=9 Great tool – allows synchronisation of Twitter and WordPress.

]]> http://www.echologist.com/2009/04/twitter-tool-for-wordpress/feed/ 0 Plugin Quotes Collection http://www.echologist.com/2008/09/plugin-quotes-collection/ http://www.echologist.com/2008/09/plugin-quotes-collection/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:08:30 +0000 kasi http://www.echologist.com/?p=7 Continue reading →]]> A great plugin to include quotes in WordPress is “Quotes Collection” by Srini. The administration of quotes is quite easy: edit text, author and source, add tags to filter the quote and then include the plugin via Widgets in the Sidebar. The result can be seen at Kasinomics.

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