Martin Crockett

Website Making How To

Very good list of tips, resources and reference material. Rated.

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Swaroop C H

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Paul Terry Walhus

Valid YouTube and Vimeo code

Death to the EMBED tag!

YouTube and Vimeo currently provide invalid embedding code to video with OBJECT tag. There are four steps to modify this:
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15 must-have WordPress plugins

Here is my list of the top 15 must-have WordPress plugins

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put < ?php akismet_counter(); ? > in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

All in One SEO Pack

Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.

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Using the Sociable plugin for WordPress

How do you use the Sociable plugin for WordPress?

I tend to use this plugin sparingly, as there is an overwelming number of social bookmarking and social media websites which appear on the options page (/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=Sociable).

I check the following sites:

1. Digg
2. del.icio.us
3. Facebook
4. Google
5. Pownce
6. Technorati
7. YahooMyWeb

These are websites I tend to associate with. There are a few others I would possibly consider such as StumbleUpon and Bumpzee but on the whole these seven are plenty.

I have recently noticed through the development of my own custom themes that the sociable.css file contains some code that fails to validate (CSS 2.1). My tip here is to compress the CSS code and comment out the two ‘.sociable-hovers’ declarations.

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Sociable plugin for WordPress

Accessible Flash Video

Using the JW FLV Media Player:

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Making Video Accessible