WordPress & GRAMPS…

WordPress & GRAMPS…

Apr 19

I have posted a “how-to’ article on the Integration of WordPress and GRAMPS systems on another site of mine. If you are interested in following either my genealogical work -or- learn a bit more on how recommend building genealogy websites with WordPress you might find the article...

Tomboy to WordPress (ATOM)

Tomboy to WordPress (ATOM)

Nov 02

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...

WordPress for Genealogy

WordPress for Genealogy

Oct 13

For those of you out there interested in seeing a genealogy site built using ‘mostly’ WordPress, please visit ManyRoads.  Obviously the site is one of mine (my family genealogy).  However, I think it provides a pretty decent example of what you can do to slice and dice a ‘bunch’ of information into a ‘pretty useful’ format. I have tried to use a plugin for...

Copyright Infringement

Copyright Infringement

Aug 03

Of late, it has come to my attention that someone is stealing this site’s (my) content. I guess I should be honored that I am writing something that someone finds useful.  On the other hand, it offends my sensibilities that these folks did not have the common courtesy to request the right to reproduce my content — which by the way, I would have granted– or provide a link to...

Highlight (spotlight) your content

Highlight (spotlight) your content

Apr 22

One of the handy items worth doing with a website is highlighting specific content.  It turns out that there are a number of WordPress plugins available capable of doing the work, to one degree or another. However, for me there is one that stands above the crowd: === d13slideshow === The beauty of this tool is that it does what most of the others can but it does not conflict with the plugins...