You might have noticed that I recently restored the main URL of my site to http://danielkoskinen.com . I decided it was a better idea to have my full name in the URL, and use my other domain (dani.fi) to generate my very own short URLs for use in Twitter & elsewhere.
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Sometimes it’s the little details that make you smile. When a new WP site is in development, you obviously don’t want it to be visible to search engines. A simple setting in the installation process (and the admin) allows you to choose this, but it can be easy to forget once you’ve set it.
About a week ago a submission to the WordPress trunk enabled a new mini-alert in the admin header, which reads “Privacy on” when the blog is hidden from search engines. Small addition, but very helpful when going live with a new site! I hope this feature remains in the final 3.0 release (due in May according to the current project schedule).
One of the biggest things I have been looking forward to in the upcoming WordPress 3.0 release are Custom Post Types. Funnily enough though, now they’re actually on their way, I’m not so excited about them any more.
This is mostly due to the wonderful Pods framework by Matt Gibbs and Scott Kingsley Clark. Pods is a WordPress Plugin, but in reality almost a CMS in its own right. It allows you to create all kinds of custom post types, along with customized admin screens (with the Pods UI add-on) that blend nicely with the WP interface. (more…)
Can anyone suggest a good online feed reader and webmail which doesn’t begin with a G?
Google Buzz created quite a stir from the start, with concerns over it’s privacy policy. The first time I logged in to see what all the buzz was about, I thought is was odd enough to see “followers” who I definitely know have never used ANY social media service. Some of them were probably just confused by the “Try Buzz” -notice and have since forgotten about it.
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Luckily in Finland the beauty of winter isn’t spoiled by power outages every time it snows…