how to: edit url of a post on wordpress.com

26 02 2008

wordpress iconTo edit the url of a post or page using WordPress.com click Edit to get to the post or page editor. Then click the Post Slug + where you’ll see the full url of the post. Correct the typo and click Save.

If your page has been already indexed by google it may make more sense to just leave it to avoid 404 errors.

linkage: via jalaj.net





test YouTube video postings

28 10 2006

This is just a test post trying to show the people who are having difficulties with getting their YouTube embedded videos to show up, that their code is ok.

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how to create a custom rss news feed in wordpress

13 10 2006

wordpress iconHere are some instructions to show you how to create an RSS news feed on any search string. It is pretty simple to do and great if you have special interests, but no good portal site to do the combining for you.

Simply copy this string:

http://news.google.com/news?q=global%20peace&output=rss

and replace the global%20peace with the search stirng of your choice. For every space add %20

You can see mine in the menu  to the right (well you could in October 2006)
Thats it. You can go home now.

If you wanted it on your site in WordPress your theme would have to be able to display Sidebar Widgets so that you can add an RSS box.
click here to see how to put that into your WordPress Sidebar Widgets





how to link to a youtube video in wordpress

11 08 2006

There is a good post in the FAQ that tells you how to insert a YouTube video. It is a pretty straight forward cut and paste. Just take the v=XXXXXXXXX part and paste it between [ youtube= and ] and you’ll see the clip once the page is saved.

Kind of like this:

[ youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6960jAGCkiA]

(^—remove the first space)

linkage: wordpress faq, YouTube