On The Mark » WordPress http://markmonica.com Contributing to the vast web, 1 blog post at a time - blogs by Mark Monica Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:41:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Next Social Network: WordPress http://markmonica.com/2007/12/12/the-next-social-network-wordpress/ http://markmonica.com/2007/12/12/the-next-social-network-wordpress/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:55:11 +0000 Mark Monica http://markmonica.com/2007/12/12/the-next-social-network-wordpress/ Watch out MySpace you are about ready to be replaced.

With all the problems that plague the giant online meeting place, a shift to person-centric social networking is primed to take some share of users from MySpace and Facebook.  After all why would you want to rent space when you can own your own home.

WordPress and its upcoming sister product bbPress are offering a multitude of options for users who would are making the switch from social networking to blogging.  Why not start your WordPress site today?

Reference:

http://gigaom.com/2007/12/11/the-next-social-network-wordpress/

]]> http://markmonica.com/2007/12/12/the-next-social-network-wordpress/feed/ 1 3 Housekeeping Tools to Add to Your WordPress Collection http://markmonica.com/2007/11/01/3-housekeeping-tools-to-add-to-your-wordpress-collection/ http://markmonica.com/2007/11/01/3-housekeeping-tools-to-add-to-your-wordpress-collection/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:15:19 +0000 Mark Monica http://markmonica.com/2007/11/01/3-housekeeping-tools-to-add-to-your-wordpress-collection/ One of the great advantages of the WordPress blogging system is the ability to add plugins and widgets. This article offers 3 suggestions to help with Google Adsense, add Gravatars, and highlight author comments. All three are great ways to improve your audiences experience.

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]]> http://markmonica.com/2007/11/01/3-housekeeping-tools-to-add-to-your-wordpress-collection/feed/ 0 How To: Embed a Flickr Slideshow on a Web/Blog Page http://markmonica.com/2007/10/31/flickrslideshow/ http://markmonica.com/2007/10/31/flickrslideshow/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:13:06 +0000 Mark Monica http://markmonica.com/2007/10/31/flickrslideshow/ Introduction 

One of the greatest things about the Internet is the ability to "borrow" many of the cool things that are out there for your own site.  You don't need to be a web design guru, just be able to find articles like this one.  Flickr has become an extremely popular free photo service and offers many services to its users including the ability to play a flash slide show of your photo sets (albums), tagged pictures.

Why Would I Want To Embed The Slideshow?

Simply put it saves you bandwidth , storage space, and you don't have to have anything special on your site.  If you host your site via a provider and have bandwidth limits, this is a must use technique.

How do I embed a Flickr Slideshow?

Step 1 - Create a Flickr account

The first thing you need to do is create a Flickr account if you already don't have one.

Step 2 - Determine Your Flickr UserId

Once you have a Flickr account, you should either have created a unique url for yourself or you can go into Flickr settings and create one.  Your url will look something like http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourname/.

Go to http://idgettr.com/and enter your Flickr url to determine your id.  You'll need it for the next step.

Step 3 - Insert code into your blog

When you are writing your blog, your editor usually has an option to enter code/html mode.  Copy the code block below changing the item in bold to your user id.
 

<iframe src=http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=12345678@N00" frameBorder="0" scrolling="no" height="500" width="500"></iframe>
This is the simplest possibility and will give you all the pictures in your Flickr account that are public.

Step 4 - More options

One way to limit the number of pictures in a slideshow is to add a tag parameter.  To do this add the bold text below and change the italicized text to your tag(s).  When you want to use multiple tags, separate them with commas.
 

<iframe src=http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=12345678@N00&tags=birthday,mark" frameBorder="0" scrolling="no" height="500" width="500"></iframe>
Flickr also offers the ability to make sets (albums) that can be very useful to organize your photos.  Replace the number with the number of your set in the code below.

<iframe src=http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?set_id=10101010101010101" frameBorder="0" scrolling="no" height="500" width="500"></iframe>

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