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(Anti) Social Lists 8/29/10

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Well, I am back from vacation physically but I think mentally I am still away. I intended to jump right back into things when I returned but I tend to forget how exhausted I am the first day back. I also had a number of problems to deal with such as my DSL not working because the cat chewed up a wire heading to a phone jack and the insurance company not processing things correctly.

The first day back was gorgeous but it’s really heating up again. Doesn’t the weather know that summer is supposed to be over once I return from Vermont? ;-)

I don’t have too many links this week but I wanted to get back to my posting schedule again.

Enjoy!

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(Anti) Social Lists 8/1/10

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Wow! Can you believe it’s already August? This summer is flying by. Before I know it, school will be starting up again. Alex told me recently that she loves school and wishes summer break was shorter – lol – what a funny kid.

This week I have Facebook, blogging, WordPress, trash, and some information about the great fabric shortage of 1972.

Enjoy

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Managing Your WordPress Archives with Smart Archives Reloaded

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After you’ve been blogging for awhile the archive list in the sidebar becomes rather long. And I’ve often felt that unless your blog is a journal that the archives are kind of useless. Most people are looking for information on a topic, such as an article I wrote about Facebook, not a list of what I wrote in May 2009.

The only thing that the list seems to do is establish the age of the site. If there are only two months listed, the site is new. If it stretches on and on, the site has been around for awhile.

I found that at about the two year mark, the list of months was just getting too long. Even though I think the archives are kind of pointless I didn’t want to do away with them completely. And I didn’t feel like creating a custom archive page so I decided to try out the Smart Archives Reloaded Plugin.

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WordPress – Collapsible Archives with the Clean Archives Reloaded Plugin

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Dublin City Library and Archive - Reading Room (by Dublin City Public Libraries)

One of the problems with WordPress archives listed by month in the sidebar is that the list becomes really long when you have been blogging for a long time. Siel at green LA girl has been blogging since July 2005 and had removed her archive list from the front page sidebar because it had become so unwieldy.

I investigated a variety of solutions and Siel decided to use the Clean Archives Reloaded plugin, which creates a collapsible list or archived entries on an archive page rather than listing them in the sidebar.

Take a second to look at how the plugin works on Siel’s site and then come back and follow the installation instructions.

To install and set this plugin up on your site do the following:

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WordPress – Enhance Your Archives by Using Optional Excerpts

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clothing optional (by Mahima Hada)

Earlier this week I discussed the Thumbnails for Excerpts Plugin, which adds thumbnails to the excerpts in all of your archives.

Today I want to discuss an alternative that doesn’t require additional plugins. This is the Excerpts field on your Write > Post page. What? What Excerpts Field? Kim, what are you talking about?

Go to Write > Post and scroll down to the “Advanced Options” section near the bottom. One of the areas is called Excerpts and is just a blank field (that is way too small but that’s another topic). The description says, “Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content. You can use them in your template”. Umm … ok. What this means is that whatever you write in this field will replace the default excerpts used by WordPress.

If you use excerpts for your archives, and most templates do, your custom content will appear when you use this field.

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