07 Jul 09 Holy Bible for Wordpress

I have search the internet and in both WordPress and Joomla sites but I could not find a component or plugin for the Bible.

Nobody seems to have create this component or plugin for either WordPress or Joomla.

In the end I decided to go through the tedious process of copying and pasting each of the 66 books of the bible into WordPress.

I have created the King James (KJV) bible as WordPress Pages since they are basically static contents. The Posts are left untouched.

I have exported these King James Bible Pages into WordPress extended RSS or WXR format. Once you’ve saved the download file, you can use the Import function on WordPress (under TOOLS) to import the books of the bible into your blog.

Browse the King James Bible (KJV) here and see how it looks like. You may need to choose a Theme like Simplex that has drop down Pages menu.

Drop me a note if you are interested to have the King James Bible in your blog.

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11 Apr 09 Where is my WordPress.com API key?

Where is my WordPress.com API key?

Every user of WordPress.com gets a unique API key they can use to access a number of services.

This key should be kept as secret as your password

To find your key go to your Dashboard and then click on Users ->Your Profile (or click on your name in the upper right hand corner) and you should see a sentence that says Your WordPress.com API key is: followed by a string of 12 letters and numbers.

You can copy and paste that string to any place where it is asked for by a service you want to use.

tags : Wordpress, API key, CMS

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11 Apr 09 Blogging by email using Postie Plugin

Is not easy to maintain a blog if you have to login to a website all the time. Postie allows you to update your blog by email.

Step 1: Download the postie plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postie/
Step 2: Make sure you have the correct version of Wordpress installed.
Step 3: Install Postie by clicking on Plugins on the left hand menu of Wordpress admin login. Click Install and then activate the plugin.

These instructions are copied from Wordpress:
Make sure all postie code is its own directory inside of wp-content/plugins/postie
Make two directories in your main wordpress directory wp-filez and wp-photos
Make sure these directories are writable by your web server (chmod 777 or chown to the webserver — the permissions should be the same as wp-content/uploads)
make sure that the postie directory that this file is in is moved to yourwebsite/wp-content/plugins
Login to WordPress as an administrator
Goto the Plugins tab in the WordPress Admin Site
Activate “Postie”
Goto to the “Options” tab and click on the sub-tab “Configure Postie” to configure it.
(Postie ignores the settings under Options->Writing->Writing-by-Email)

Pay attention to the bold items
The wp-filez and wp-photos are folders which has to be created in the wordpress blog directory and not under the postie directory. The instruction given in Wordpress is ambiguous.

Step 4: Click on Configure Postie under Setting in Admin login at the bottom. Once you are in Postie, go right to the bottom to configure the Mail Setting. Avoid using gmail, yahoo mails. Use POP mails. You need a confidential email account which you would send your update to your blog via this email.

To make sure your configuration is correct, click on the test and run postie on top. If it is ok the brower will bring you to a blank page showing that mails are being read and downloaded.

Step 6: There are two ways to get the blog to download your email and post it into the blog. You can Cron job or you can use iframe.

I prefer using iframe. Essentially you need to insert this iframe script into the footer.php of the theme you are using. The footer.php

iframe src=”http://laughter.mhcasia.com/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php” name=”mailiframe” width=”0″ height=”0″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” title=”">

Replace http://laughter.mhcasia.com with your Blog URL.
Step 7. Send a blog update to the dedicated confidential email account you have created. Hit F5 to refresh the browser and you can see your blog being updated.

Step 8. Format for Email Blogs

Subject is the Title of the Blog Article
If you want to categorize it prefix the subject with [Cat ABC][Cat CDE] Title of Blog Article

You can add as many of the pre-defined Category as you like.

If you want to add tags, add this at the bottom of the article in this format:

tags : abc, cde, fgh

tags must be in small Cap otherwise it wouldn’t work.

Image Handling
Postie allows you to attach images to your email and automatically post them to your blog.Large images are automatically thumbnailed and linked to the larger image.

You can publish images in the text of your message by using #img1# #img2# – each one will be replaced with the HTML for the image you attached
Captions – you can also add a caption like so: img1 caption=’foo’ img2 caption=’bar’

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