Elandsdans Reserve Plot / Thatched house in Pinelands, Cape Town

Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Richard Catto 1,406 views

Tags: Elandsdan Reserve, Klein Karoo, Pinelands, Swartberg, Thatched house
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Whose the DADDY of social networking sites?

Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Richard Catto 4,663 views

It’s not Digg, neither reddit, nuh uh del.icio.us, nor muti, amatomu is not-the-mama, afrigator who?

It’s StumbleUpon!

If you want traffic, get onboard StumbleUpon today!

I discovered this yesterday when I installed Alex King’s beautiful WordPress plugin called Share This. It’s a thing of total beauty. Customising it with your favourite social site is child’s play. I added Muti to it in under 5 minutes, including the little muti thumbnail graphic.

Ironically, the first site I shared one of my posts with was StumbleUpon which produced a very healthy flow of traffic. Seeing that, I was encouraged to stumble more of my posts, and I experienced a sudden rush of people from all over the world. A heady experience when that happens.

Share This doesn’t spread a whole row of tiny little graphics across your web site (that no-one can decypher), instead it places a simple green distinctive Share This icon to left of the words. Clicking on it, brings up a window which allows your visitors to share your posts with all the social sites you have installed, as well as send your post to friends via email.

Alex King is working to integrate his amazing plugin with ShareThis.com who offer a very useful service. It integrates with facebook, so I was able to share a site with a friend directly onto her facebook wall. I think it would be better, though, if it went to her facebook email.

Okay, so now I have to thank Candy Tothill for introducing me to StumbleUpon. Thank you, Candy! She is a published South African author and she is also an avid blogger – insidecandy.blogspot.com.

Tags: afrigator, Alex King, amatomu, Candy Tothill, del.icio.us, Digg, Inside Candy, muti, Plugin, reddit, Share This, StumbleUpon, Web traffic, WordPress
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I updated to WordPress 2.3!

Posted on September 25th, 2007 by Richard Catto 3,326 views

I really wanted to get the new tag feature, you know. I just had to have it!

To display tags for a post, one needs to update the theme. I got it working for a single post (single.php), but can’t get the index.php page to display them on the front page.

Here’s my template code (same for both index.php and single.php)

<?php the_content(); ?> <?php wp_link_pages(); ?> <?php the_tags("Tags: ", ", ", ""); ?>

This works for single.php and displays the tags directly under the content, but NOT for index.php. Does anyone know how to make this work?

[EDIT] Okay, fixed! Please make sure that you replace all instances of start_wp() with the_post().

Source for fix:
the_tags() does not output anything if the_post() is not called

Tags: 2.3, index.php, single.php, start_wp(), Tags, the_post(), the_tags(), wordpress bugs
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