Happy/Merry Almost Holidays/Christmas
This week I have WordPress, cupcakes, gender and finding work, and Canadian bacon.
Adding WordPress 2.7 Threaded Comments to your Theme
Probably one of the most talked about features of 2.7 is that threaded comments are built in. A plugin is no longer required for this functionality.
The problem is that it takes more that simply upgrading to 2.7 for this feature to be available. If you’ve got a brand new 2.7 ready theme then, yes, threaded comments will work. If not, you will need to make the theme “2.7 ready”.
So, you’re in luck because I’m going to walk you through the steps. I’m not sure if I like the way they look but I do like the functionality. I have saved my original files in case I decide to revert back.
Green Tweeter Google Pie
What Am I Doing?
Since creating the two tag clouds for green tweeters and the blogs of green tweeters, I have been thinking about other ways of visualizing the data. What I wanted to to do was create a chart or table from the feed data but I was unsuccessful in locating a tool to do this.
Last weekend I came across this article, which discusses manipulating rss data in Google Spreadsheets. I then remembered an article by Digital Inspiration that outlined the steps for using Google Spreadsheets as a feed reader. I decided to manipulate the rss data within Google spreadsheets and try to make charts using the green tweeter data.
How I Created It
First, I would like to say that this is probably an extremely inefficient way to obtain this data and I would appreciate tips on other methods in the comments. I did, however, learn a lot about Google Spreadsheets, spreadsheet formulas and using charts and gadgets. In an earlier article, I pointed out that I was not proficient with Yahoo Pipes. I am even less accomplished with excel, scalc, and Google Spreadsheets functions. My methods may be convoluted but what I learned was valuable.
