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It’s nice when we write good content. It’s even better when a reader shares it on sites such as facebook or twitter. One problem with sharing on facebook is that facebook will try to pull in images from the site but may not always pull in the one you want. You can control what images show up with a special meta tag. This will make the one you pick as the first image, but unfortunately not the only image. This is still useful if you post only a youtube video in your post or page and want to specify an image for when shared on facebook. Facebook has a set of share tags available.
To specify an image I first upload it using the Media->Add New wordpress page and grab the URL of the image after I upload it. Next, while on the page or post scroll down to the Custom Fields area. The first time you will need to add a new field. Call it image_src and to the right paste in the full path to the image you just uploaded. Save the post. Next, add the code below one time to your Thesis theme’s custom_functions.php file.
Here is the link to the text file with the Thesis code to add to custom_functions.php.
That’s it! Pretty simple huh? Leave a comment if you have any questions or comments. Thanks for reading!
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Facebook Like Button
Thesis is a great wordpress theme but it takes some getting used to. You are no longer editing a file called “single.php” you’re using hooks to add in content and change things around. To add the facebook like button in Thesis open up custom_functions.php in your favorite editor and add the code in this file. I couldn’t get the code to display properly here in this site.
This will add in the like button below your posts. It will not add it to your pages. I just wanted people to be able to like my blog posts and not my pages.
What do you think? Have you used it? I have added the like button below. Feel free to like this post :]
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Hey everyone! Sorry for not updating in such a long time. I have been busy with work and also the outdoors blog. I also wrote a 2009 greeting card for my company. Can you find the Easter eggs? I have been busy learning jQuery and also am starting back in college. I only need four classes to graduate! I’m enrolled in two classes at NKU in the spring. I start back next week.
Anyway, lots of stuff going on. Work is picking up here. If you want to keep up with me you can follow me on twitter. If you want to check out my company more I have created both a twitter and facebook page. I have also used some FBML on the facebook page. If you’re not a fan yet and go to the Easter egg tab you won’t see the hint. That hint is for fans only :] Anyway what’s been going on with you? Leave a comment and let me know.
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At one of the New Media Cincinnati events Daniel asked me what plugin I use for related posts. Some people use the Zemanta network for their related posts. This is great as not only do you get other related posts from other users your content is on their network. The plugin I use on this blog finds related posts by tags. If I tag a post with SEO at the bottom the related posts will be other posts I have tagged with SEO. The plugin I use is called Wordpress 2.3 Related Posts Plugin.
Please subscribe to my feed using the links on the right. I’m going to be writing an article upcoming which outlines the plugins I install on any new blog.
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I have been using wordpress for a while and now I’m starting to integrate more jQuery into some of my blogs. Problem is I have been having problems with the code acting up. After searching I found the jQuery is now included in the core code for wordpress. More reading and I found that I need to use jQuery’s noConflict to make my code work in wordpress. Using noConflict your code will look like this:
$j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(function() {
$j("#sidebar #trigger").click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
$j("#box").slideToggle();
});
});
Basically anywhere you would have used just the $ sign you add in a “j”. The variable name can be anything some examples use $js I just chose $j.
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I have recently changed cell phone carriers and I guess that means I needed to update my cell phone at twitter because DM’s were not coming to my new phone. To fix this login to twitter and choose Settings -> Devices and choose “Delete and start over”. Next, enter your cell phone number and twitter will send a pin to your cell. Get the pin and enter it into the screen on twitter. Your cell phone will then be all set and you can get DMs through it or messages from users you have device updates turned on.
Hope this helps! My phone was quiet for a day before I figured this out! Kind of odd I know!
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I have recently discovered the ShareThis button for Firefox. Many blogs have the ShareThis button already installed on their blog but what if I’m not at a blog or what if the blog doesn’t have a ShareThis button? ShareThis has the answer: their browser button. Using the button gives me the same functionality as if the site had the ShareThis code. Using their button I can share pages I find on Facebook, linkedin, myspace, twitter, or any other major social platforms. ShareThis will also let me e-mail a page to someone. I use that alot to send myself a page that interests me. I can keep a copy of the e-mail do check out the site later.
That’s about it for this post. I hope you find the ShareThis button as useful as I have. I would also like to give out my twitter profile and ShareThis’ profile. Give us a follow!
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I use google chat alot and also ping.fm. For those of you who are not familiar ping.fm is a service that will update alot of statuses at once, or individually using their @ commands. Ping.fm has made it alot easier to use their service now through google chat. You can add their “bot” to your google chat list and send it messages to post to your various social media profiles. Now if you want to update everything you can without even going to the ping.fm website. You can find instructions on how to send out ping.fm updates on their site here. How do you use ping.fm? Is it a good tool? I have heard both ways on it’s merits. If I send out a ping.fm update I usually check on that service within an hour to see if anyone has said anything back to me. Your comments are welcome!
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I like to give back to my Entrecard top droppers on one of my blogs. Entrecard makes it easy to do this through their “Top Droppers” RSS feed. To get the URL of your feed login to your Entrecard account and click on Dashboard. Next click on “More Stats” in the bottom right of the “Quick Stats” box. Scroll down to the Top Card Droppers. There is a RSS icon next to the text. Right click on that link and select “Copy Link Location”. Use Entrecard Top Droppers Code and paste your URL in the appropriate place. You can edit the num_items variable to display any number of top droppers. I chose 5 for my blog.
This code will need to go in your themes sidebar.php file. In your Wordpress admin area click on Editor under appearance. Next find the file sidebar.php in the list on the right side. Click that and the file will be loaded into the theme editor. Before adding your code in scroll down. If there is an error message you may need to change your file permissions. If there is a submit button you are set to add the new code. Figure out where you want the Entrecard Top Droppers to show up and paste your code in. After the sidebar is saved go back to your blog and your top droppers will be displayed. I’m not sure how often the feed is updated. It’s a great way to give your top droppers some link love and encourage daily visits.
I should mention that this is only for wordpress.org self hosted blogs. Wordpress.com, blogger, and the other free blogging platforms do not give you access to the code. For wordpress.com or blogger you can try going to Feedburner and burning your RSS and then getting an image code and inserting it. It won’t help your top droppers in the same manner as the code above.
If you have a wordpress.org self hosted blog and need help with this feel free to contact me. I’m not free, but my rates are reasonable.
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