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A friend started out today asking me if I had time for some WordPress input…specifically regarding backups and related plugins. I though to myself, maybe I should write up a small email to my buddy and mention all the plugins I think are essential. I did and that led to me thinking…”I should put this out for others.” He thought the same thing and suggested I turn it into something on my site.

So, I put some time into this list. I only suggest the plugins I think are the best in their respective categories, so with that, let the list begin.
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I recently came across these and I’m not entirely sure where it was. I’m sure it was when I was geeking out over some fantastic photography equipment that I want.

Nonetheless, these little rules where worth copy/pasting for future reference. So just uncovering them again, I figured I’d just post them out to the blog where a good maybe 3 to 4 people might read them.
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I recently just changed my permalink structure here on this blog. I was getting tired of seeing the year/month/day/title in the URL. Instead I just chose the simple /archive/post-title approach. I think it will be much better.

For this to occur, I used the plugin Dean’s Permalinks Migration. You’ll find this plugin, once enabled, under your “Settings” area. Ensure that your old Permalink structure is there and then easily change to your newly desired permalink structure.

With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t hurt your google pagerank.

It really is as simple as that, now all my new posts have a shorter, more easy to follow URL permalink structure.

There’s a war going on for your mind

Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks
Cover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads
Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel
Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers
Now it’s raining pornography
Lovers take shelter
Post-production debutantes pursue you in Nascar chariots
They construct ransom letters from biblical passages and bleed mascara into holy water supplies

There’s a war going on for your mind…

Industry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate crackheads
They flash logos and blast ghettos
Their embroidered neckties say “stop snitchin’”
Conscious rappers and whistleblowers get stitches made of acupuncture needles and marionette strings

There is a war going on for your mind…

Professional wrestlers and vice presidents want you to believe them
The desert sky is their blue screen
They superimpose explosions
They shout at you
“pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain
Nor the craters beneath the draped flags
Those hoods are there for your protection
And meteors these days are the size of corpses

There’s a war going on for your mind

-Flobots

Today on the way to work this PSA from the Flobots 2007 Fight With Tools album came on and I just had to find the lyrics this morning and read them sitting down. That’s some powerful stuff right there.

I actually read about this little feature a while back…like almost a year or so ago. I thought it was a neat feature, I just really had no use for it.

Recently though, I wanted to embed a PDF into a webpage and remembered seeing this article from last year. I immediately went out to create a simple, useful function to be able to use this in WordPress. [...]

Chris Pearson is a stud when it comes to all things web, not to mention the guy’s relentless pursuit of wordpress goodness keeps me coming back to his blog again and again.
Yesterday morning, a post from him via DIYThemes.com grabbed my attention. It was all about how to use the Robots Meta Tags option in the very popular theme Thesis. While I dont use Thesis, I still found it extreamly interesting and started to investigate its declaration:

One of the biggest problems with WordPress is the fact that it automatically generates different kinds of archive pages that can be indexed by search engines. From date-based archives (daily, monthly, yearly) to tags to categories, these auto-generated pages all contain duplicate content that doesn’t belong in search engines.

Like many times before, he’s exactly right.
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Greenaid apparently got the simplest of things figured out…”Seed Bombs”

This is the kind of thinking and marketing that can change our world, if we let it.

Seth has a really interesting post about our distractedness. We live this out in our culture every day.

The net has spawned two new ways to create and consume culture.

The first is the wide-open door for amateurs to create. This is blogging and online art, wikipedia and the maker movement. These guys get a lot of press, and deservedly so, because they’re changing everything.

The second, though, is distracting and ultimately a waste. We’re creating a culture of clickers, stumblers and jaded spectators who decide in the space of a moment whether to watch and participate (or not).

Imagine if people went to the theatre or the movies and stood up and walked out after the first six seconds. Imagine if people went to the senior prom and bailed on their date three seconds after the car pulled away from the curb.

The majority of people who sign up for a new online service rarely or never use it. The majority of YouTube videos are watched for just a few seconds. Chatroulette institutionalizes the glance and click mentality. I’m guessing that more than half the people who started reading this post never finished it.