In this article I’ll give you a few tips that have helped me over a bit of time to save a bit of time. The fact that running a website and writing for it as well can require quite a bit of time and dedication, we all need new ways to help us publish and promote our articles quicker.
While this tutorial was written with a focus on the Wordpress CMS, I think any webmaster will be able to take something away with them from it.
Wordpress Codex – Author Edit Link
This is incredibly easy to add to your website. Just make sure you place it within The Loop, and you have it positioned where you’d like it.
This template tag can amount to a lot of time saved due to the fact you can edit your post on the fly from your index page, posting, or anywhere else you’d find the Wordpress Loop.
1 | <?php edit_post_link('link', 'before', 'after'); ?> |
Example: Displaying the edit link in a paragraph tag..
1 | <?php edit_post_link('edit', '<p>', '</p>'); ?> |
The end result of adding in this little template tag is you’ll have to open up new browser tabs fewer times, and you will not have to go through your Wordpress Dashboard to find your pages and posts to manage. And don’t worry, only you will be able to even see the edit link.
Wordpress Plugin – Shortcut Macros (link takes you directly to the README file)
“This plugin allows you to set up shortcuts that expand into longer text when you save a post/page. For example, if you link to my site often, you might create a macro of ak. You type ##ak into a post/page and when you save it will expand to <a href=”http://alexking.org/”>Alex King</a>.”
I enjoy using this function while maintaining a certain bit of flexibility. With that said, I decided I could save loads of time when adding links here and there by creating a macro named ‘link’ that expands to <a href=”" title=”" rel=”nofollow”></a>.
Wordpress Plugin – RegLevel
“You can add a special link through which users can register and have a particular user level/role applied by default.
Need to separate people into multiple categories? Now you can automate the filtering process and save yourself time.”
While this plug-in should be just fine with your Wordpress 2.7.1 installation, this update was rushed and the author admitted so. The full release of the Wordpress 2.7.1 version is promised to be available in the coming months.
Useful CSS Classes For The Masses
I wrote a quick little tutorial for JungleJar around Halloween of 2008 teaching folks a little bit about global CSS classes, and I still believe this relatively easy practice isn’t nearly as often used as it could be. This article is not Wordpress specific.
If you’d rather just have a peek at the global CSS classes I provided with the tutorial to give users an idea of what I was explaining, have that peek below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | .alignleft { float:left } .alignright { float:right } .aligncenter { margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; display:block } .clear { clear:both } .float-left { float:left } .float-right { float:right } .text-left { text-align:left } .text-right { text-align:right } .text-center { text-align:center } .text-justify { text-align:justify } .bold { font-weight:bold } .italic { font-style:italic } .underline { border-bottom:1px solid } .highlight { background:#ffc } .img-left { float:left;margin:4px 10px 4px 0 } .img-right { float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 10px } .nopadding { padding:0 } .noindent { margin-left:0; padding-left:0 } .nobullet { list-style:none; list-style-image:none } |
Wordpress Plugin – Post Templates
“It happens quite often that a blogger publishes posts or static pages on a regular basis which have the same structure. Think about for example a “picture of the day” daily post. With current wordpress state, we need to spend a lot of time doing copy/paste between posts instead of actually writing content. Be happy because I have developped the missing plugin to maintain post templates and allow simple writing of regular posts.”
3 Web Applications That Submit Your Posts To Social Bookmarking Communities
Looking to save a bit of time promoting your article to ensure it gets the proper attention it deserves? You might want to reference a previous JungleJar article entitled “3 Web Applications That Submit Your Posts To Social Bookmarking Communities“.
Mapping URLs to Filesystem Locations in Apache
Do you use the Apache Web Server? If so, this could save you a lot of time in itself. I’m not going to go over it too much in this article, because I believe it would take it too far out of its original context, and there are just too many different things you could use this for. So, just give a look over the document at Apache.org, and see if it might be something you’d be interested to give a go.
Nice. As I’m building my new Site (hopefully) this Weekend I can need that stuff.
Sweet. Let me know if you need any help.