On each of the sites I've created so far I've integrated a twitter block into the side panel.  Here's how I went about it.

First of all I needed the twitter javascript code to be part of my theme:

Get twitter js here : It's a slightly modified version of twitters own javascript, changed to get out the @ replies.

Secondly I needed to add the related scripts to the footer: Read more »

I'm putting together a site for our TCC Gardening group here in Thurgoona (http:/gingerrobot/tccgarden).  The new feature compared to my other websites is having an events calendar.   I also want to have location data associated with each event and hopefully even a google map location.  Here's how  I went about it.

I installed the Event module, making sure to set my timezones correctly so that the date/time would stick. Read more »

Silvia Pfeiffer annouced that she's released a new Open Source WordPress plugin called External Videos.  This plugin adds the ability in WordPress 3 to pull in the videos from a video channel from YouTube.   The meta data for each video is also pulled in and displayed.   Using the Wordpress Admin are videos can be presented in posts and pages.  A gallery can be created showing an array of many videos. Read more »

Jono Bacon writes about Launchpad explaining why it is a superior option for running a software project.  He explains why he chose Launchpad after trying Trac and Sourceforge as a developer.  Launchpad has bug tracking, code hosting, translations, community features and answer tracking, package building and storage.

Read Jono's articles about Launchpad 

For the wonderful OSSBarcamp event in Ireland we had a special request of WordPress.  We needed attendees to sign themselves into the site and schedule themselves to give a talk in the room and at the time of their choice.  First in got that slot.   I solved this problem for them using open source software and a little code.   Here is what I did.

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I decided to use Drupal to deploy my company and personal (jaimekristene.com) websites.  My motivation was purely to learn more about Drupal so I can start writing modules and custom code for other people using this tool.  Both sites are single user and basically just brochures with blogging, Drupal was massive overkill in this situation.  I had to download and install 18 modules, but I think I tried closer to 40 modules before I settled on those.  A lot of the features I had to download and configure are default in Wordpress.

Hopefully this will be useful to people just starting out.

I have found that: Read more »

Click here for an image of my Modules list

I installed the gallery module to help me one day put gallery images directly into my posts.  A side bar with a random image and one showing the latest album shots.

I used wordpress import to bring over my old wordpress posts, it worked okayish.  The content is there but it doesn't look as pretty as it did.

wysiwyg is installed and I use TinyMCE 3.3.2.

Antispam has been awesome so far, already caught quite a few for me.  I tend to just shut down commenting on posts that I get spam on. old ones anyway.

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