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If you are a Linux user like I am (Ubuntu is the distro I use), this brief tutorial may be of some help to you. In order to setup Tomboy so it publishes to your  WordPress BLOGS via ATOM do the following:

  • Use Synaptic to install the Post note to your blog plugin
  • restart Tomboy if it was running so that the plugin loads
  • go to your WordPress BLOG
  • Open Settings >>Writing and place a check (tick) mark next to the item labeled “Enable the Atom Publishing Protocol.”
  • Open Tomboy go to Edit >> Preferences >> Add-Ins >> Tools >> Post note to your BLOG >> Preferences and use your WordPress, URL; your URL should look like http://<blog_url>/wp-app.php/posts

If this does not work you may need to update your .htaccess file.  Mine looks like the following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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TreeMagic Cypress

TreeMagic Cypress is a new lightweight browser plugin for WordPress. Install, configure, then double click any word, or select a group of words on the page. On mouse-up a small popup appears adjacent to the selected text that gives you instant access to define, expand and explore related resources. It does not replace or interfere with existing hyperlinks, but adds an instant and powerful reference compliment to all your texts, regardless of formatting and styles.
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Using Mimbo theme

Writing and manging content in Worpress using Mimbo theme

- Required: WordPress 2.3 – Mimbo theme installed, active and configured. – Image manager plugin installed and configured. – Basic image resizer software such as PhotoFiltre

The Mimbo theme makes extensive use of front page images. It does this by utilizing the powerful wordpress ‘custom fields’ feature to add exclusive images to excepts displayed in the front page of the site. There is no auto-resize feature in this process and in order for the page to look presentable, these images need to be correctly prepared and optimized to load quickly and fit into the layout dimensions of the template. Image preparation can be done locally using an ordinary and free image/photo manipulation software such as the gimp or http://photofiltre.free.fr/ In addition, WordPress has an excellent browser based image manager http://www.soderlind.no/archives/2006/01/03/imagemanager-20/ that provides all the cropping, resizing, compression and formatting required. We will make extensive use of this tool, as it simplifies the whole process.

NOTE If you are going to use pictures generated from original high quality digital photos or artwork, you do need to add an extra step in the process. High quality images usually provide excellent resolution and dimensions. This is essential for print and artwork display, but is quite unsuitable for website use. A web page has to display images by transferring digital information to your browser. Put simply, the more digital information the image has, the longer it will take to render that image in the browser. Original digital images are often many megabytes in size, which is way too big and would take several seconds to load on a page. Likewise their dimensions are often far to large for the web page template. Many people make the mistake of resizing their images into a smaller dimension, without optimizing the digital data. This means, the images are still too large and render slowly on the page.

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WordPress as a wiki?

WordPress for Wiki prototype

According to Wikipedia:

A wiki is software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. These wiki websites are often also referred to as wikis; for example, Wikipedia is one of the best known wikis.[1] Wikis are being installed by businesses to provide affordable and effective Intranets and for Knowledge Management. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as “the simplest online database that could possibly work”.[2]

Why wordpress as a wiki?
Put simply, WordPress is probably the finest Internet publication system available. It efficiently broadcasts posts to search engines and social networking services and provides excellent visibility, both in design, code structure and connectivity. To combine these well established features and the collaboration qualities of a wiki like setup produces a good combination of high visibility and group authoring requirements.

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