The Designed http://thedesigned.com A collection of articles about design, technology, odds, and ends. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:54:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en List of ‘Add to Footer’ Social Bookmark Links http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDesigned/~3/343038686/ http://thedesigned.com/2008/07/22/list-of-add-to-footer-social-bookmark-links/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:53:06 +0000 Greg William http://thedesigned.com/?p=60 Why do so many designers insist upon putting those ugly social bookmark favicons at the end of a blog post or even in a site somewhere? I’m guessing because it’s easy to copy and paste the code that a particular site spits out to you. Many people find it much easier to just use some sort of WordPress plugin as well. I’m not saying that these ways are bad ideas, however I myself would like to have a bit more control over how these social bookmark links look. That being said, I’ve compiled a list of social bookmarking website “add to footer” links that you can add to your WordPress, Moveable Type, TypePad, or Blogger website.

PERMALINK

WordPress

<?php the_permalink();?>

Moveable Type & TypePad

<$MTEntryPermalink$>

Blogger

<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>

TITLE

WordPress

<?php the_title();?>

Moveable Type & TypePad

<$MTEntryTitle$>

Blogger

<$BlogItemTitle$>

Just replace “PERMALINK” and “TITLE” in the code below to which blogging platform you use.

Blinkbits

http://blinkbits.com/bookmarklets/save.php?v=1&source_url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE&Pop=no

Blinklist

http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php &Quick=true&Url=PERMALINK&Title=TITLE&Pop=yes

Blogmarks

 http://blogmarks.net/my/new.php? title=TITLE&url=PERMALINK

Blogmemes

http://blogmemes.net/post.php?&title=TITLE&url=PERMALINK

Care2

http://www.care2.com/news/news_post.html? url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE&v=1.3">

Del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&noui&jump=close&url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE

Design Bump

http://designbump.com/node/add/drigg?url=PERMALINK

Design Float

http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=PERMALINK&TITLE

Digg

 http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE

Diigo

 http://www.diigo.com/post?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE

DZone

 http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html? url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=PERMALINK

Furl

 http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp? t=TITLE&u=PERMALINK

Google Bookmarks

http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=PERMALINK&title=TITLE

Hugg

http://www.hugg.com/submit?url=PERMALINK

Ma.gnolia

http://ma.gnolia.com/bookmarklet/add? url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE

Mister Wong

http://www.mister-wong.com/index.php?action=addurl&bm_url=PERMALINK&bm_description=TITLE

Mixx

http://www.mixx.com/submit?page_url=PERMALINK&TITLE

Newsvine

 http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save? u=PERMALINK&h=TITLE

Netvouz

http://netvouz.com/action/submitBookmark?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE&popup=no

Reddit

http://reddit.com/submit?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE

Shadows

http://www.shadows.com/features/tcr.htm? url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE

Simpy

 http://simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do? title=TITLE&href=PERMALINK

Slashdot

http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE

Squidoo

 http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/bookmark?PERMALINK

Spurl

http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?v=3&title=TITLE&url=PERMALINK

StumbleUpon

http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE

Technorati

http://technorati.com/faves/?add=PERMALINK

Windows Live Favorites

https://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx?marklet=1&mkt=en-us &url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE&top=1

Wink

http://www.wink.com/_/tag?url=PERMALINK&doctitle=TITLE

Yahoo My Web

http://myweb.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet? t=TITLE&u=PERMALINK&ei=UTF

If you’ve got some other’s that you’d like included in this post, email us over at contact [at] thedesigned [dot] com.

]]> http://thedesigned.com/2008/07/22/list-of-add-to-footer-social-bookmark-links/feed/ http://thedesigned.com/2008/07/22/list-of-add-to-footer-social-bookmark-links/ WordPress Hacks Everyone Knows Except You http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDesigned/~3/338490423/ http://thedesigned.com/2008/07/17/wordpress-hacks-everyone-knows-except-you/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:32:50 +0000 Greg William http://thedesigned.com/?p=14 From time to time as I browse the web, I find myself reading a fellow (WordPress) blogger’s site and I say to myself, “How did they do that in WordPress?” So I have compiled a list of some of the simple (but cool) WordPress hacks that seem like everyone else knows how to do except for you.

Display Total Blog Posts

This will display the total number of blog posts within your site in plain text.

<?php echo $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND post_status = 'publish'"); ?>

Sort Posts Randomly

Place this before the loop in a page template and it will display the posts in your site randomly.

<?php
$limit = get_option('posts_per_page');
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts('orderby=rand&showposts=' . $limit=5 . '&paged=' . $paged);
$wp_query->is_archive = true; $wp_query->is_home = false;
?>

Link to Current Month Archive

This displays the path to the Month archive.

<?php echo get_month_link(get_post_time('Y'), get_post_time('m')); ?>

You can also show the current Month by using this…

<?php the_date('F', '', ''); ?>

Link to Current Year Archive

This displays the path to the year archive.

<?php echo get_year_link($arc_year); ?>

You can also show the current year by using this…

<?php the_time('Y') ?>

Force Read More Link on Page

This forces the read more link to work on WordPress pages. Put it in a custom query like so…

<?php 
if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php $more = 0;  // force the read more link ?>?>
<?php query_posts("showposts=1"); 
?>

Bonus…

Plain Text Rating for Plugin: WP-PostRatings

If you have the WP-PostRatings plugin, this code will give you a plain text output of the average rating using a WorPress custom field.

<?php echo $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'ratings_average', $single = true); ?>
]]> http://thedesigned.com/2008/07/17/wordpress-hacks-everyone-knows-except-you/feed/ http://thedesigned.com/2008/07/17/wordpress-hacks-everyone-knows-except-you/ How to Replicate Your Favorite Sites http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDesigned/~3/291365109/ http://thedesigned.com/2008/05/15/how-to-replicate-your-favorite-sites/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 02:59:27 +0000 Greg William http://thedesigned.com/?p=11 When browsing and reading comments about all of the different tutorial sets and “web roundups” around the web, I’ve noticed that many people are usually wanting to know how to replicate parts of some of the more “well-designed” sites out there. The four sites that I looked closely at were Flickr, Digg, Facebook, and Apple. If you aren’t familiar with these, then you should obviously be spending a lot more time sitting in front of a computer. I’ve compiled a list of tutorial sets for these four sites.

]]> http://thedesigned.com/2008/05/15/how-to-replicate-your-favorite-sites/feed/ http://thedesigned.com/2008/05/15/how-to-replicate-your-favorite-sites/ Make a Custom WordPress Front Page http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDesigned/~3/286548847/ http://thedesigned.com/2008/05/08/make-a-custom-wordpress-front-page/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 03:55:06 +0000 Greg William http://thedesigned.com/?p=9 There are many different things that people don’t know about little ol’ WordPress. Many people have heard that it’s a “powerful cms,” but some things that seem complicated can be easy to accomlish. A great thing about WordPress is that it allows you to have a custom front page. By default, your front page displays your latest posts. I have provided a tutorial on how to have your latest post separated from the next 4 posts so you can style and organize them differently on your front page. An example of this can be seen on this site’s front page.

Step 1

Open up your favorite text editor and save the following code as a .php file. Make sure you alter the code a little to suit your themes needs.

<?php
/*
Template Name: My Home
*/
?>
 
<?php get_header(); ?>
 
	<div id="content">
 
		<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
		<?php $more = 0;  // this forces the read more link to work on pages ?>
		<?php query_posts("showposts=1"); // show the most recent post ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
 
			// Insert Div tags and content here.
 
		<?php endwhile; ?>
 
		<?php query_posts("showposts=4&offset=1"); // show the 4 most recent posts excluding the latest ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
 
			// Insert Div tags and content here.
 
		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
 
	</div>
 
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
 
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Step 2

Make sure your WordPress theme already has a file called “page.php”, if not then go ahead and create one. Then go ahead and uplad your page template.

Step 3

Go to the WordPress Admin and go to WRITE > PAGE.

Custom Front Page

Step 4

Title the page and then scroll down to “Advanced Options” and click “Page Template.” After that, select the page template name which you just uploaded then scroll back up and press “Publish”.

Custom Front Page

Step 5

Click on the “Settings” link in the top right corner of the WordPress Admin. Then from there click on the READING link.

Step 6

Now that you’re in the Reading section in the admin, under “Front page displays,” make sure “A static page” is selected. Then from there, select your page template name and then scroll to the bottom of the page to save the changes and you are all complete.

Custom Front Page

]]> http://thedesigned.com/2008/05/08/make-a-custom-wordpress-front-page/feed/ http://thedesigned.com/2008/05/08/make-a-custom-wordpress-front-page/ Satisfy Your Hunger With These Great Feeds http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDesigned/~3/284406264/ http://thedesigned.com/2008/05/06/satisfy-your-hunger-with-these-great-feeds/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 05:37:40 +0000 Greg William http://thedesigned.com/?p=8 The great thing about RSS Reader’s is that they are customizable to each and every user. I’m sure everyone has plenty of different feeds that suit their needs. It can be a bit tricky however to get good quality feeds. And because of that, I have developed this good list of design related feeds. Some you know, and some you’ve maybe never heard of.

Hopefully after you read this post, you’ll subscribe to this site’s feed. This is the first post here at The Designed and there will be plenty more quality posts to come…

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