Pressmark with a Wordpress installation with all you need to start a social bookmarking website (like del.icio.us, sabros.us, …).
You can see a demo of Pressmark installation on bookmark.alexgirard.com
Pressmark includes Wordpress Prologue theme, which has been used by Wordpress team to have a twitter-like dev-blog.
Prologue include Gravatar support, so go to upload your avatar on gravatar.com to have a nicer output!
If you feel like adding your own modification to the code, you can clone/fork the project on Github: http://github.com/alx/pressmark/. All contributions will be welcomed!
Ideas to extend Pressmark:
- Bookmarlet, Jabber bot for easy posting;
- Import from bigger social-bookmark accounts (delicious, magnolia, …)
- Cross-blogging to decentralized bookmark management in various blog spaces
Installation
- Get Pressmark sources:
- Download it from Github
- If you’ve got git installed, clone it from Github (to easily get last updated)
git clone git://github.com/alx/pressmark.git pressmark
- Move the source to your webserver, ask a geek how to do it if you don’t know :)
- Wordpress configuration: copy ‘wp-config-sample.php‘ to ‘wp-config.php‘ and fill up the MySQL database information.
- Access to the website where you’ve installed Pressmark, and begin the “2 min. installation” from Wordpress
- Now that your website is ready, go in the administration pages and activate the following options:
- In ‘Design‘: select ‘Prologue‘ theme;
- In ‘Setting‘: select ‘Anyone can register‘ and set the ‘New User Default Role‘ to ‘Author‘ if you want your users to post links;
- In ‘Plugins‘: activate ‘WP-OpenID‘ plugin
On the way to launch Live Clöthing, I had to hack this morning the register action hooks for Wordpress, that don’t work as simply as excepted.
‘register_post’ action
You won’t be able to add more errors in $errors if you do not make it global in register_new_user() of wp-login.php:
function register_new_user($user_login, $user_email) {
global $errors;
‘user_register’ action
For some strange reason, $user_id is not available, you’ll need to add this hack to read it in your hook function:
$user_id = (int) func_get_arg( 0 );
Quick and dirty, a simple widget to display latest images attachment with a link to related post.
Update, more widget options::
- Change Title
- Set picture count
- Set link destination to post or file
- Select category to display
Attachement Viewer widget on Wordpress Extend
Paco wanted a wordpress installation with one purpose: test different themes for the same blog.
The idea was nice, but know it’s even more fun with this new plugin: user controls which theme to display on the blog they are reading.
Try it yourself on lasindias.info
There’re surely some more feature to add before the plugin is complete:
- Use cookie to keep plugin whil navigating on the blog
- Add form for admin to add or upload a new theme
- Fun factor: save last selected theme as the default blog theme, users now control your blog presentation!
Download Theme viewer plugin for Wordpress
Thanks to Dougal Campbell for the original Preview Theme plugin.
A new and better plugin, MuTags by MrHenry, is now available on Wordpress Mu forums
Because the last version of Wordpress-mu is quite new, there is no proper plugin to start using new tag system available with Wordpress 2.3 system.
Here is a quick hack I’ve put in wpmu-functions.php to display a proper tag cloud of all blogs, please send me feedback and tell me if you find any bugs:
Code for get_community_tag_cloud()
Copy this funtion in your /wp-include/wpmu-functions.php and then add to your theme:
get_community_tag_cloud($display=true);
For more updates, please follow the Mu Forum thread about this hack.
Here is a 15 lines Wordpress plugin to ping Feevy when you publish a new post on your blog.
Download it »
Enjoy! We keep it for friends before to release it to public.
Pressmark with a Wordpress installation with all you need to start a social bookmarking website (like del.icio.us, sabros.us, …).
