TQuizzle.com

So I’ve been uploading photos for a few months now to my photoblog and it’s been interesting. I love the Autofocus theme and all the amazing things it does, but it lacked something…

What’s Missing

My photoblog, that is using the amazing Autofocus theme is simply that…a simple photoblog of some of my photos taken from any and everywhere.

I noticed something wasn’t right and I had one gripe about it…on single pages it lacked a bit of class and touch that I think photoblogs should have. Mainly I was looking for a previous/next thumbnail support when it displayed previous and next navigation links under the content. I thought that would be a perfect place to put these little gems.

By default, Autofocus theme puts the navigation to the previous and next posts underneath your content photo. Makes perfect sense, but I figured it’s a friggin photo blog, why not display the previous/next available photo too? [...]

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So you’re already ahead of the game by having a good 404 page, right? Good, now you can even add a bit more spice to them.

While on Google’s Webmaster Tools page, I noticed this little gem:
<script type="text/javascript">
var GOOG_FIXURL_LANG = 'en';
var GOOG_FIXURL_SITE = 'http://www.mydomain.com';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://linkhelp.clients.google.com/tbproxy/lh/wm/fixurl.js"></script>

Since users need to find what they’re looking for within 7 seconds to avoid them leaving your site…use this little guy to help out. It will make it easier for them to find the information they’re looking for. So, you’re probably wondering, “What does that do to help me?” Good question, here’s a rundown of what Google says:

• It adds a search box for your site with appropriate search suggestions.
• It tries to provide alternatives to incorrect URLs.

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I was looking around one day trying to find a simple plugin that could take any mention of a twitter username (eg. @tquizzle ) and link it to that user’s Twitter account page. The idea was simple, yet I couldn’t find what I was looking for.

Everything I found was for either comments only, or simply didn’t accomplish what I wanted. So I sat down, dissected Matt Freedman’s Twitter Links to see how he did this with comments, bounced the idea off of @justinshattuck and @tshaiebly, and then added a little more functionality as far as being able to do the same with post and page content as well as comments. So its a trifecta!

You can jump on over to the Plugin page to see more about it.

For some reason or another, I never figured out until today digging through the widgets files in wp-includes directory in your default WordPress installation, that you could easily insert RSS feeds anywhere in your site.

This started with a task I had for MakeUseOf.com to include RSS feeds for the author pages. After digging into it, I found it was quite easy and it uses the Magpierss code almost exactly.

All you really have to do is insert a little code in the template file you want to use (or a page or post using one of many php inclusion plugins for WordPress).
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BlueQ v 1.0.1 is finally here!

I’ve been hinting of it’s release for the better part of 4 months now, but it’s finally done.

There may still be a few minor bugs to work out, but overall it should work just as you’d expect.

Check it out on my BlueQ theme page or just skip right to the download.

This version changes quite a bit from the old BlueQ version (pre 1.0.0), so take it for a test drive (just by browsing my site) and let me know how you like it.

Update:

Fixed two little problems and added another feature to sidebar.php. Details are in the changelog on the theme page.