DISQUS

First off, thanks for this.

Second of all, you're making the WP part of this difficult. I wish designers spent time understanding the WP API. It would prevent breakage or security problems later on.

For custom fields, use get_post_meta(). It takes three arguments: $post_id, custom field key and a boolean detrermining if the value is returned as an array (default, false) or a string (true). Example:

$thumb = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'image', true );

Second of all, your javascript libraries. WP has built in dependency checkers and queues for handling the use of JS in themes. It also bundles jQuery, so please don't ask people to bundle it again. :) So you use wp_register_script() to bring in easing and coda, wp_enqueue_script() to make sure WP kicks out the javascript in the proper order and wp_print_scripts() to put them into a theme. Here is an example function:

function other_js()
{
wp_register_script('jquery-easing', bloginfo('template_directory) . '/scripts/jquery.easing.1.3.js', array('jquery'));
wp_register_script('jquery-coda-slide', bloginfo('template_directory) . '/scripts/coda-slider-condensed.js', array('jquery','jquery-easing'));
wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
wp_enqueue_script('jquery-easing');
wp_enqueue_script('jquery-coda-slide');
wp_print_scripts();
?>

$j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(document).ready( function(){
// Stuff
});

<?php
}

Aside from my nitpicking tho, nice tutorial. Thanks.

Nice work, Jimmy!

Google Blog Alerts as well. So probably something high level in their indexing engine as opposed to Alerts alone.

Gobble gobble. Thanks for the shout out, douchebag. :)

Sounds like a great way for people to steal your content, as well as mine, Pete - then splog the hell out of the internet the way its been done for years.

Meh.

Love ya, Chris, but I'm really tired of the conversation about the future of the web/Web 3.0/semantic web/what have you.

I think we need to be focused on surviving the economy first, then look to the next era.

I love it when I randomly click through to an article just to find out that it was based on something I wrote. Thanks for that and great article.

Great to see you again, Adam, and thanks for the Lijit mention. Outbrain, too, is a fantastic little service.

Fluttering pixie! On it!

We certainly have been pushing towards having ads, but the platform isn't ready yet. Some switch probably got accidentally switched on your account and then corrected. I'll ask the guys about it in the morning.

Sorry, Chris.

You are not a liberal, Mark. Libertarian, yes. Liberal no.

Of course not, Joanne. The post says it's for WordPress 2.0 and lower and that WordPress 2.1 and higher (this includes WordPress 2.5) has it built in.

Hey Colin-

Thanks for the kind words. This release was more difficult than previous because I'm not at b5media anymore and I'm not as active as I used to be in WordPress development. But, I do the posts as a public service so I try to stay somewhat ear-to-the-ground.

Thanks again for the link.

Within five years, video in mobile phones will be ubiquitous. Higher end phones will still provide realtime streaming, however it will be more than just Nokia.

With the Olympics/NBC using Silverlight for coverage this summer, Silverlight will gain prominence but will not unseat Adobe Flash on its own. Other technologies such as Apple's new product will combine to provide much more parity in the marketplace. The days of Flash embeds are numbered, though it will never disappear.

Wow... that was almost belligerence coming from me. :)

Tomorrow when I'm more coherent, I'll redo the quote and not mention Dave. I'll find another reason for you to be a PITAB :)

Dude, so sorry if you were offended. I tried to find the quote but couldn't (it was awhile ago, and I'm sure I got it wrong)... Sorry...

I love Animoto. BlogPotomac rocked but the video made it seem way better. :) Thanks for putting it together.

You still don't get off the hook for Pain in the Ass Blogger though. You're queued up and will get featured. ;-)

I'll be there and blogging too - maybe live, maybe not. But I can't use the service that keeps the data in such a way that it can't be used *on my blog*. So I'll just do coveritlive or regular posts.

Hi Drew! Glad you like Lijit. Let me know if you need anything, since I'm working with them. :)

Thanks for the video, Scott. To be clear, all the guys are getting paid something - but we do need to raise the revenue so they can be paid better.

So... takeaways are... cold calling, blind pitching and addressing bloggers with Dear Site Owner. Right?

Do I get a raise now?

Thanks for the read, link and comment. The RSS feed is autodiscoverable. Plug the domain name into your reader, and you can subscribe. :)

OMG. Is Baltimore now on the map?! ;-)

Put them on the left. That's where the eye goes in LTR languages, which is most of them. Also, placing on the right leads the eye away from the content.