Pingo Lingo

Tag: Blogging Tips

  • Flickr is now enabled.

    If I could figure out how to use Flickr smartly, so can you. Flickr is “third party” to snowotherway. Read it’s terms and conditions carefully. You are only invited, not required, to enable an account with flickr, but . . . what fun.

  • Moving, Graduating, Take your blog with you.

    In your dashboard, under ‘Options/Reading’, you need to check that the number of posts under ‘Syndication feeds’ is set to At LEAST the number of posts in your blog, and that the feed is set to ‘Full text’ before saving it as an .xml file.(look for the xml link in browser bar or meta somewhere…

  • cool smilies

    😎 The following smilies have an extra space after the first character so you can see them here in text form. Remove the space and the smiley appears in published posts. ‘ : )’ => ‘icon_smile.gif’, ‘ : D’ => ‘icon_biggrin.gif’, ‘ : -D’ => ‘icon_biggrin.gif’, ‘: grin:’ => ‘icon_biggrin.gif’, ‘ : )’ => ‘icon_smile.gif’,…

  • New Widgets for Widget Enabled Themes

    Quick SMS has evolved into “Snow-Mobile.” It’s still a cell phone text messenger, though. Created a “Snowblower.” Look at snowflakes for a demonstration. Enjoy. PS. Thanks for your patience, if dropping Quick SMS borked your theme with a fatal error it’s not all that fatal. Click on “Sidebar Widgets” in your Dashboard and all is…

  • Hotlinking Images? We have all done it. Warnings!Warnings!Warnings!

    When adding an image to your page with a link to an image on another site, you may get unexpected results. This is called hotlinking: when images appear to be embedded on your page, but are simply linked to someone else’s page. Advantages: no bandwidth or disk quota used from your account because you are…

  • Found snow mold

    I have noticed some themes generate error messages under certain conditions. I am trying to fix code so broken themes, widgets, and plugins work perfectly. The most popular errors in the server logs are when widgets are used to display content you haven’t created yet. For example, including a recent comments widget in your sidebar,…

  • To feed, or not to feed . . .

    The slings and arrows of outrageous plugins are enabling and disabling site feeds(RSS). I’m working on the problem. If you haven’t noticed the problem, thanks. D. Sader

  • Snowsuits for Grades 9-12

    Something very new has been built into iblog, “snowsuits.” Be up to date with your posts. Hand in an up to date “Assessment Data Sheet.” If you think you can handle the responsibility, and if I think you’ve got the skills, I’ll enable your access to “snowsuits.” D. Sader (Fed your inner geek lately?)

  • Grades 7-9 can catch snowflakes

    Check out the snowflakes feed in your dashboard for blog ideas.

  • Do you want to send free text messages to a cell phone?

    Look for the Quick SMS widget on any theme that has sidebar widgets. Mine works(vmobile.ca). I need someone to verify that the Telus Mobility widget works, too. If your provider is not listed, and you want it, let me know. Receiving texts messages on my cell phone, for me, is free. It’s sending them that…